Seo1 - 4:19 pm on Aug 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

For Bear

I have a client who had two sites 1 a dupe of the other.

I was selected to optimizie the newer of the two and after 6 months it was still under Dupe content filter and was for saometime before I arrived.

I have a very good comparison tool which is another of his sites for a different locale that I also optimized and is sitting at the top for all three google msn & yahoo.

This site like others is built off of a template design and pages are the same, except for main content and links naming , between each site as is the hosting environment.

very little linking to make a big difference in rankings .

I would also say for the past year I've run into the problem about 10 times and all 10 times the sites were filtered out and once cleaned up able to get back in on their own.

Thomas
Yes eventually Google would find the site through new links built to it sssslllloooowwwlllyyy.

Would it reinclude without prompting ...I haven't seen it happen yet. But thats more a matter of me writing every other week when someones out and not having the patience to experiment with someone elses website nor do I think they would have the patience either to take the wait and see approach

As I said it took me almost 3 months with the last cient and that was enough of a smash to their revenues than to ask them to wait and see what google does.. would make me a canidate for the white jackets...

As far as hits from Google the client had those going on almost from a few weeks after dropping out of the index...Google seemed to hit just the index page as well.

Without seeing thewebsite,,,server stats & ftp access and so forth...it's hard to say why it is happening for your website..if your using javascript navigation it maynot be able to find the links to your other pages so it has nowhere to go and is caught in a loop and leaves.

Also do you use a robots.txt file or meta robots instruction for both robots and googlebot?

Clint