Trying to get google to know my site is a magazine site is this wrong
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Hi, i have put a line to describe what my site is at the top of my site and i want to know if this is wrong or not. We have dropped frok being number one in google for lifestyle magazine to now number seven.
Before we had to redo our site we were number one and then we dropepd to around number four when we finished the site and now we are number seven and i need to try and get back up there.
To help google know we are a lifestyle magazine i have put a line at the top of the site and i want to know if this looks out of place and if i should take it down.
i need advice on how to get google to know we are a lifestyle magazine and get back in the top five of google
my site is www.in2town.co.uk
any help would be great
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hi, cannot remember exactly what date but about a year ago. before that we were number one but our hosting company messed up when they upgraded the site and we lost over 10,000 pages.
since last week we were number five in google and now we are number seven.
if we redirect all the old pages will that not slow down our site and also will google not like it when we redirect them to the home page when the articles are not there, also how many redirects can you have in your htaccess file
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Did you change the url structure? Check that you 301 redirected all the old pages that had links coming in. Also it could be you got hit with panda and penguin and think its the fact you launched the new site, What date did you switch?
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