What to try when Google excludes your URL only from high-traffic search terms and results?
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We have a high authority blog post (high PA) that used to rank for several high-traffic terms.
Right now the post continues to rank high for variations of the high-traffic terms (e.g keyword + " free", keyword + " discussion") but the URL has been completed excluded from the money terms with alternative URLs of the domain ranking on positions 50+. There is no manual penalty in place or a DCMA exclusion.
What are some of the things ppl would try here? Some of the things I can think of: - Remove keyword terms in article - Change the URL and do a 301 redirect - Duplicate the POST under new URL, 302 redirect from old blog post, and repoint links as much as you have control - Refresh content including timestamps - Remove potentially bad neighborhood links etc
Has anyone seen the behavior above for their articles? Are there any recommendations?
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I tried it with my website to exclude some pages of my website. Pages like Gclub to reduce the file size.
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Thanks Jason, for some text portions I found some low quality pages having cloned the article. Our article still shows as number 1 when searching for the exact while the other hits are all low quality pages that today 301 redirect to a casino site. I does not seem like that any of the other pages earn any SERP results.
Would that be of concern to you? Its a 6000 word article. Would you try to rewrite the whole piece to avoid any potential duplication penalty?
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Do a Google Search for a block of text on the page to see if there's other pages in the SERP that have the exact same text. Google may be crawling some other page that's too similar and giving you a duplication penalty. I've seen domains with their authority in the sixties not showing up and getting beaten by domains in the thirties because of it.
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