Google Not liking Magento Sites?
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Hello, I'm new to the community and I wonder if anyone can help us shed a light on this SEO issue we are having. We have 3 magento websites that is being affected. Whats happening is that those site were ranked for a specific keyword for few months, but all of a sudden, it just drop like crazy. It went from top 10 to about 150 in a bout a weeks period. Some site, it's not even ranked or stopped ranking and visible on the search engine. Is google not liking MAgento for some reason??
Any help or suggestions will be appreciated!
thanks
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Thank you very much Ade! Thats very helpful. I will check out that website and see if this helps our website. We do see there was alot of complaints about duplicate content.
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Hi James,
Magento is genrally pretty good for SEO as long as you can get rid of a few basic issues. Magento can create a lot of duplcate content but there are a couple of extensions and some good guides that can help.
The first is from Yoast - http://yoast.com/articles/magento-seo/ - There is a link from within the article for the extension.
The second is from Paul Rogers at GPDM.
Their extension is here - http://www.gpmd.co.uk/magento-development/magento-modules/seopack-magento-module/
Their guide is here - http://www.gpmd.co.uk/blog/a-guide-to-doing-seo-on-magento-websites/ -
Thanks Matt, we have to do an in-depth investigation of our sites again.
thanks
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Goolge won't have anything against Magneto as it is a very widely used platform and there would have been a lot more people asking this sort of question if Google suddenly decided it didn't like it. I would have a look at all your sites link profiles and see if there are any clues there? I would also look at your sites architecture/structure and see if you have a duplicate content issue which can be common on e-commerce sites. For a more in depth insight you will need to share your sites with the community.
If you haven't already I would run your sites through http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ for clues
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