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I have a website that has a problem which i would like to know can be fixed.
Firstly, what does it mean if a sites index page only has PR?
Its a site in a niche area. The site is over 3 years old and for a while was hugely popular on google, Top 10 for primary keyword phrase and very high for many other related terms.
Now its slipped to about the 80s.
History, the site was duplicate content. 1 webmaster built a niche adult video/dvd site on a free host. He couldn't promote it. So another webmaster copied the site (with permission) so he could promote his site and collect orders.
Then another webmaster also wanted to collect orders so he did the same. A site was needed as all webmasters were working seperately and could manage there own orders.
The orginal site never ranked high in search engines but did get indexed.
The other 2 sites did really well, but fell late 2005.
1 of those sites now has not been changed at all and currently only has PR on the index page most other pages (over 150 have been dropped from Google and other search engines.)
The other site I changed all the pages urlsDecember 2005 ,,,e.g video1.html to video-1.htm
I also rewrote all the content reviews.
I also reduced greatly affiliate links.
However none of the new pages have been accepted in google or MSN.
regarding links, yes I exchange links with a range of other adult sites, but i dont think ive done anything over the top.
Basically are these sites permanently screwed as regards the search engines? Or can this problem be fixed?
Both sites are in DMOZ, if that means anything.
[edited by: caveman at 2:59 pm (utc) on May 26, 2006]
[edit reason] Removed specifics, per TOS [/edit]
I deleted all the old pages.
The reason i did this was because it was becoming more and more apparent that duplicate content was no no. I didn't rewrite the content on the existing pages incase those pages were permanently marked as duplicate.
So i created all new pages. Is this factor in why the new pages are not being indexed?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
