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I see a huge changes in google serps across all the google datacenters in europe and asia but US serps are the same...
A few of my site goes up and a few goes down
Did you see the same changes?
Thanks
Alex
Not ok... I have some (now) truely unique pages with two screens of text which went url-only. These pages were renamed in feb and had been doing fine. I think that the old page (which was a semi-duplicate page) is hidden somewhere in Google index. I have always been concerned that the site:mysite.com commmand has more pages than actually exist. And, the 'more page' number approximates the number of pages I removed with removal tool.
Maybe it is time for me to get a new domain and start over. The site did well for 4 years :(
<<Not ok... I have some (now) truely unique pages with two screens of text which went url-only....the old page (which was a semi-duplicate page) is hidden somewhere in Google index.>>
Bummer. So the Google "remove URL" is window dressing as far as duplication goes.
Next month they'll find the same sentence on your new site! At this rate Google will be back to crawling a Web of 1.3 million pages in 2006....
www.domain-name.com%23blank/
who can explain?
I don't see how this might affect my front page.
Should I spend weeks adding varying textual content? What a waste of time...
Your non-www root URL is 404. That's not good, and you've got duplicate and inconsistent linking. Fix your site's problems and you should be fine, or at least better off.
Maybe it is time for me to get a new domain and start over. The site did well for 4 years :(
I wouldn't if I were you. Your site should still be bringing in some customers from yahoo and msn.
I recently bought an expired domain and even though it is not getting any google or yahoo traffic, it is getting repeat visitors from links all over the web and I just need to theme the site previous products or services and it converts well enough without very much effort.
For my main site, my traffic from google has dropped to only 20% of what it was actually getting but somehow yahoo is ranking me better at the time when google drop my position. What I got from google used to be 4-5 times yahoo but now yahoo is bringing in more. msn much lesser than both but surprising converts better.
Everyday my log shows pages with same hits and visitors (eg. 10 hits / 10 visitors) which obviously is a bot that is downloading the html but not the images.
There are so many scrapper sites copying my pages to the extent I don't know what each is copying and I don't really care anymore. If adsense decides to ban them, they will die a natural death.
If adsense decides to ban them, they will die a natural death.
I suspect that, instead of banning scraper sites, AdSense will trust Google Search to make them irrelevant at some point in the future.
About a month ago, I sent a reinclusion request to G, because most of my site was supplemental. Within a few days, every thing went supplemental (like someone pushed a button). Then dropped to URL only. After that, they started re-indexing all URL's with full titles and descriptions. Today, after changing nothing, I have more full pages indexed than ever before, so I think it might be worth giving it a little time before 'jumping'.
Justin
I was hoping the same thing... I thought that maybe this is G's strange way of clearing everything out and starting over. But it sure is a back-asswards way to do it. I didn't make too many changes.. just reduced the navigation boilerplate overhead on 30% of the pages - should improve keyword focus anyway.
