Article pages not ranking as well as they should
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Hello,
Our articles here are not ranking as strongly as they should.
Could you take a look and tell me why? When I search for the exact article title we do not come up. We used to.
Note our sitewide footer links to some articles in case that's the problem, but even articles not in the footer links aren't performing.
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I think part of it has to do with the link in your articles section, heading in the article, url, and title tag all matching or being REALLY close.
For instance, if I Google Dynamic Spin Release, I see your website's article; however, if I Google Dynamic Spin Release and the Energy of Your Mind, I do not.
I am guess that is because your title tag and url pull more weight than your listing and heading:
listing: Dynamic Spin Release and the Energy of Your Mind
heading: Article on Dynamic Spin Release and The Energy of Your Mind
title: Dynamic Spin Release
url: Dynamic Spin Release
When you are writing or posting these articles, I would try and match the listing, heading, title, and url to almost match each other if those are the types of queries you are hoping get typed into Google.
I hope this helps.
Mike
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Yes, you're right about the top 7. The ones farther down have a lot more duplicates. We used to show up when there was duplicate content but now we don't. Any suggestions?
I'll close this question soon.
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Hi Bob,
I looked at the top 7 articles on your articles page.
Here is what I found by Googling the titles or headings of these articles:
- appears
- duplicate content
- appears
- duplicate content
- appears
- appears
- appears
Is there an article in particular that you are not finding via Googling the title/heading?
Mike
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Some of them are duplicate content, but not all. The owners have let some of the articles be shared. I'll talk to them.
But even the ones without duplication are not working well
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Duplicate content?
Dynamic Spin Release and the Energy of Your Mind
http://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/Dynamic_Spin_Release.html
http://www.nlpiash.org/Articles/RecentArticles/tabid/250/EntryID/12/Default.aspx
Choice Building: Changing Synesthesias Through Choice Building
http://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/synesthesia
http://www.nlpco.com/library/therapy/choice-building/#axzz2Qk3i4Sh6
Are these articles supposed to be on multiple sites?
Mike
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