Continued Lack of Google Indexing
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I run a baseball site (http://www.mopupduty.com) that is in a very good link neighbourhood. ESPN, The Score, USA Today, MSG Network, The Toronto Star, Baseball Prospectucs, etc etc.
New content has not been getting indexed on Google ever since the last update. Site has no dup content, 100% original. I can't think of any spammy links, we get organic links day after day. In the past Google has indexed the site in minutes. It currently has expanded site links within Google search.
Bing & Yahoo index the site in minutes.
Are there any quick fixes I can make to increase my chance to get indexed by Google. Or just keep pumping out content and hope to see a change in the upcoming future?
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I'm not sure how to remove answered.
I came across this link to my site via google:
Is this auto generated by my wordpress blog? I assume it is just a regular link, letting me know the source is Day Life.
I also ran my article text through Copyscape and came up with 10 different matches
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Yes we do.
We get numerous retweets from regular readers + team specific twitter feed aggregators.
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Have you tried seeding your new content through social media to see if that helps? (As soon as the new article is released post it to your Facebook and Twitter accounts, along with getting a few RT's / likes)...
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if you're on WP, then I definitely recommend the Google XML Sitemaps plug-in. Does all the heavy lifting for you.
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Another good idea. Thanks again
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Thanks.
I was thinking about getting a wordpress plugin for the sitemap. It hasn't been an issue in the past but then again things are different now.
Meta trick is new, I'll give that a shot.
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Regarding the source ownership factor, I'd also recommend using the Google Source Attribution tag on all your articles.
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Your sitemap.xml file has three entries. I recommend automating the URL generation in it to include new content as it's posted, with lastmod set to the date/time of posting. I'd then get that file pinged out to Google at least once a day if you've got new content every day, or even each time a new article is written.
I'd also put a date/time stamp tag in the header using the HTML standard meta tag format for dates
That isn't guaranteed to help, however it has helped some sites I've worked on in the past.
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Sorry, I can't seem to edit. I should add that the syndication/image situation has been the same for the past two years.
Links structure is very very good.
For example, whenever the site updates a small syndication is updated on Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/tor/blogs)
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Good news!
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I can see where you're going, so I'll say:
Our content is written 100% by our writers. Our content is syndicated everywhere (USA Today, MSG, Yahoo Sports!, etc). Could the samples sentences be an issue?
Image licensing is handled by my sports network (The Score is cable TV channel in Canada).
Everything is on the up and up on the site. Anyone else
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If I take random sentences from the site I see those same sentences word-by-word on other websites. Are these your original content?
Do you own or have a license to display the great images that I see in many of the articles. There are no attributions.
These may not be the cause of your lack of Google indexing, but they could be and they could also be a larger problem.
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