Hit With Panda, How Should I block pages?
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Hello!
I believe Ive been hit with Panda, I have a large Ecommerce site with literally thousands of pages, but working on adding custom content daily. Should I block pages that have duplicated copy, that dynamically insert a product/artist/team name? Will this help with my huge ranking drop? If so after this has been done should I send a request reconsideration to google? Or will it just happen automatically? I believe this is a algo penalty and not manual, as I have not received any messages in my Webmaster.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thank You!
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Hello Ben!
Yes still indexed, Ive never really ranked very well but I had alot of Long tail searches that came up, but most of it was on the DUP content pages. With thousands of pages how can I Noindex duplicate content?
Thank you
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Are you still indexed? No need to submit a reconsideration if you are.
Noindex you duplicate content.
Develop a new links to your new quality content. Guest blog, do some non-profit work in the community, ect.
If you're still indexed, you should regain some rankings quickly. However after a slap you're going to have to show Google you've changed your ways over the course of a couple of months to get back to where you were.
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Im almost positive that its Panda, its a LARGE ecommerce site with thousands of pages, traffic fell off in 1-2 days to almost nothing now. I have a fwe hundred pages with custom content everything is is pretty much the same with artists names dynamically inserted. Everything is whitehat thats the only thing I see which could be causing the problem. Im not sure exactly what to do know? Do I have to contact google on this? Or just fix it and wait?
Thank You
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Hi,
If you are positive that Panda update is the reasoning for your loss of ranking then you can use a canonical tag to let the search engine know which page to credit. However, your drop in rankings can be from multiple scenarios.
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