Thanks for the help!
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I just wanted to say thank you all for the advice you've given on this board. When I first joined we had been stomped by Panda three times and our traffic was down about 40% from last year.
Since then, we've followed recommendations here and while we aren't quite back to where we were before, our traffic for the last three days from Google is higher than any time since May and trending higher. We are also up in Google rank for 70% of our tracked keywords and showing up for 15% that we weren't even on the radar for in August.
We still have a lot of work to do but know that we are on the right track. We can now do the same on a site that survived the initial hit but got slapped in July.
I just want to reiterate what others have said:
- Get rid of duplicate urls - 301 redirect all dups to a single page
- Flesh out or drop pages with low content value
- Find 404 pages that used to exist and instead of 404s, 301 redirect to current resources
- Fix speed issues
This forum was well worth the subscription.
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Hi Ian,
It's great to hear that Q&A is working for you.
I have to confess that a large share of the "warm fuzzies" in my life emanate from this forum. Seeing so many people sharing and working together here every day always puts a smile on my face.
Thank you too for posting this - as EGOL mentioned, it's great to know what has worked and what the outcome was for your site. Feedback like this is as valuable for the rest of us as the answers were to you.
I would most definitely agree - Q&A alone can make the subscription cost worthwhile
Sha
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Nice work!
Thanks for the report and experience sharing.
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