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Yeah, it is about 40 pages. So... I think we will just have to rewrite the content. He does want to rank these pages. They are actually ranking in the top 10 now with about 80% dup content.

thanks for the help!

A client I just took over is having some duplicate content issues. At the top of each page he has about 200 words of unique content. Below this is are three big tables of text that talks about his services, history, etc. This table is pulled into the middle of every page using php.  So, he has the exact same three big table of text across every page.

What should I do to eliminate the dup content. I thought about removing the script then just rewriting the table of text on every page... Is there a better solution?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I had a site hit by penguin and since recovered it. Once the links that were causing the problem were removed it took about a week to come back. I will have to look at the dates... I think my site was fine on the 1st up date then got hit on the refresh. Not sure why it came back without another refresh.... Maybe that is not how it works. I will see if I still have the data in GA. I have since sold the site.

**I found the GA. An image is attached. I did not receive any type of message in webmaster tools.

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I have been struggling with this myself. I keep falling into the $500 a month "do everything" plan. I am  not sure if a monthly fee is best. Or hourly, or what.

Good idea! This is actually what I have done in the past. The client was reluctant but is now writing his weekly content.

Thanks for the response! Yes, that does make sense. He said he does not want to spend time on things that do not directly make him money. He said he doesn't want to answer questions, be involved, etc. He just wants to do his craft. He said he tried it in the past and he was spending more time answering questions than actually making money.

Hey everyone,

I just finished pitching a client for some SEO work. He said he does not want to write any type of content. He also said his industry is so unique that he does not want anyone else writing content for him either. His site has about 25 pages of total content now.

I am going to get all of his onpage seo good to go but what would you do? Just build links?

I really prefer to have some sort of content strategy in place but find it can be challenging with clients.

I had a site hit by penguin and since recovered it. Once the links that were causing the problem were removed it took about a week to come back. I will have to look at the dates... I think my site was fine on the 1st up date then got hit on the refresh. Not sure why it came back without another refresh.... Maybe that is not how it works. I will see if I still have the data in GA. I have since sold the site.

**I found the GA. An image is attached. I did not receive any type of message in webmaster tools.

2gpQw.jpg