How can Floost outrank us?
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I did a search for "Bella Thorne Jimmy Choo Maylen" and the first result that comes up is "http://floost.com/yournextshoes-post-bella-thorne-in-jimmy-choo-maylen-booties-hot-or-not-2680653". Basically they just have our site in some sort of frame, and I can't even see our site among the other search results. How do they manage to outrank us?
I never submitted our site to Floost, but normally I don't think they should hurt our SEO as it's just a content aggregator. What do you think?
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Thank you for the response. We're actually getting very little traffic from Floost, so I guess our SEO rank in general is quite poor.
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Thanks a lot. We'll definitely look at getting the title tag moved to the top, though I am not optimistic about it having much of an impact.
Regarding the title tags, is your opinion that having " in the title (or ") is negative for SEO?
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Jan, I completely understand and agree with your frustration. This used to happen very very aggressively with scraper sites back in 2003-2006 times. Redirect links used to rank higher then the original sites.
At some point, Google will catchup and understand what's going on and rank your site better, but honesty, a lot of times, higher authority sites tend to rank better with minimal on-page content and in this case, as Ian pointed out, it's the summary of the post along with their domain authority that's making them rank higher.
See this if you haven't already: http://floost.com/search/search?q=yournextshoes
Are you seeing a considerable traffic from their site to yours ?
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Hi Jan - I do see your site, #3, for the same article. That doesn't answer the annoying question, though: How does an aggregator outrank you?
While Floost has a higher domain authority (51 to your 35) the specific page on their site has zero authority or social shares.
The content that's helping them rank is the stuff that appears when you click the pull-down tab at the top of the screen.
I'm grasping at straws a little bit, but I wonder if your title tag is hurting you, just a little bit?
A couple of little things to try:
- Put your title tag at the very top of your HTML.
- Remove the " from your title tag, too.
See if that helps.
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