Where Do I Start?
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Each time google comes out with an update (panda, penguin) my site suffers heavily so I decided to take over my seo for my website after years of paying seo professionals, who basically never met my expectations. After runnin ga crawl Diagnostics I see that I have;
4,718 Duplicate Page Titles
1,902 Duplicate Page Content
3,469 Temporary Redirect
I have no idea how to fix these issues.
The 4,718 Duplicate Page Titles are hard to fix because i run a dating site and I have a lot of members who create profile so their page title is usually (members userame & Phone Dating) but i guess google considers this dupliacte page title but its not b/c the username should always be different.
The 3,469 Temporary Redirect is b/c whenever a guess tries to go to a page on the site that requires them to login I use a 302 redirect to send them to the user registration page.
Do i try to fix these issues or just move on to building links and adding content?
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Pardon my ignorance when it comes to your particular industry, but do those pages need to be crawlable?
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yes the member profile pages are crawlable.
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As far as the member profile pages, can search engines crawl those pages?
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I would look at who is linking to you, that could be hurting you as well. It looks like you have a ton of directory links and this could be seen as unnatural by Google.
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