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Over and done with?
All done all through?
It seems that being contraversial on this forum, as I sometimes am, makes for some very intesting comments. Thanks for your input.
I run a site that has the same layout on all product pages, BUT the content is different on every page. Also, the URL includes the keywords of the product.
I hate the idea of praising ones own success on here, but to make my point, my website is doing extremelly well, with many keywords in either number 1 position, or in the first 5. My site is bespoke, in that it was written specifically for me, and took 7 months to make. But everything, and I mean everything on the site, conforms to search engine requirements. More importantly, it conforms to my customers requirements, and I believe the issue of content for viewers is my number one consideration. Search engine requirements is a close second, and diversification to other forms of marketing comes next.
I am talking about layout of the content. Much of it is duplicate and has to be duplicate. How may ways can you describe 12,000 Christmas ornaments? You make a template and add the unique data. The customer wants that and you just can't go through life making a unique page for each christmas ornament.
Like many webmasters, I did some reciprocal linking in the beginning, to get my site off the ground. However, I was extremelly selective ,and only reciprocated on valid and relevant links that conformed to my content. I only have about 70 of these, and the vast majority of links I have come from directories, or natural one way inbound links to my site. I now have thousands of these, partly because of articles I write, but mainly because of the interest in my site, and also partly from blogs.
I have left the reciprocals onboard, simply because i believe they are of interest to the sites viewers, and NOT to increase PR.
It seems that being contraversial on this forum, as I sometimes am, makes for some very intesting comments. Thanks for your input.
I run a site that has the same layout on all product pages, BUT the content is different on every page. Also, the URL includes the keywords of the product.>
I've just checked two section pages on my site - they are totally different product sections and both pages rank highly for allinanchor (one ranks at number 1, one at number 3). The page at number 3 is fine and ranks at number three in the index - the page that should be at number 1 ranks at 350. It looks like one has been 'filtered' because G thinks it is too much the same. The similar content checker reckons they are 9% the same.
For me, the solution will have to be (yet another) total site rebuild using different software. Ho hum.
<I hate the idea of praising ones own success on here, but to make my point, my website is doing extremelly well, with many keywords in either number 1 position, or in the first 5. My site is bespoke, in that it was written specifically for me, and took 7 months to make. But everything, and I mean everything on the site, conforms to search engine requirements. More importantly, it conforms to my customers requirements, and I believe the issue of content for viewers is my number one consideration. Search engine requirements is a close second, and diversification to other forms of marketing comes next>
I took that approach too - my site conforms to my customers requirements - they are always teling me how easy it is to navigate compared to other sites - a shame that it may be that which has caused my site to suffer!
JJ, thats the daft thing about this update competitors of mine that are still ranking well and I know are involved with buying links in from other sites all hitting the same term and his sites have been untouched by this update, you start thinking you get a handle on this then a little research blows it clear out the water
I am talking about layout of the content. Much of it is duplicate and has to be duplicate. How may ways can you describe 12,000 Christmas ornaments? You make a template and add the unique data. The customer wants that and you just can't go through life making a unique page for each christmas ornament. >
Exactly. Try describing body widgetery, where you have 10 different products which only differ by sizes of a millimetre difference between them but have so many other options and prices that you can't list them all as one product! One answer to that is to use software where you can put all the products on one page so you don't even up with 10 similar product pages - you can't do that in my software.
I can only say that at the moment I am glad that yahoo and MSN don't consider this to be a problem (and thank goodness I don't sell nuts or bolts).
I've given up worrying about links - I built a new site when this farce began, and already it ranks slightly above my old site for allinanchor/title/text etc.
I can't decide how important they are in numbers anymore really, except from the POV of getting found quickly by spiders and giving info about the target page.
The would be a J3 workaround. I don't think they wanted this but they are penalizing legitimate sites.
