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Yes what you see through copyscape is correct as those content comes along with the book and will be true for all retailers and marketplace websites, be it amazon, bn or abebooks.

Since we could not think of any other way to come up with unique content we thought of auto generated content. I slightly differ here as these auto-generated content is unique for each page at least partially. Though I am not 100% confident if this is great way to go about it.

Yes review is something we are definitely coming up and this may help.

Thank you Adam for your time and valuable feedback. We were also thinking of being hit by Panda but thought and as correction we used rel=alternate tag on printsasia.co.uk

It's been just a few days since we implemented this we are unable to say if this is working.

2ndly to increase the content we are introducing some review program and at the same time have also generated some auto generated content since it is impossible to develop content for 3 mn and increasing pages. If you can see the last "Book Information" Section on this page http://bit.ly/QqMAFR you will understand what i mean.

This section will be there on all book detail pages. Your comment post reviewing this will be appreciated

Mark thanks for your time and valuable feedback. I think you almost answered my doubt why only one site being penalized and not the other.

Mark you are right when you say "Looking at your link profile, you simply don't have sufficient volume or diversity of links, nor do you have enough links from high-authority sites within your space"

As i mentioned co.uk is just 5 months old site and its taking us sometime to build links. But we are definitely working on it.

I believe having lesser links can only be the reason of poor page rank and low rank in SERP it should not be the reason of being penalized. I hope you will agree with this.

As immediate step

1. I will first remove the sitewide link and see if this was the reason. If thinks improves over the time, we will keep the link back with changed anchor text

2. We will definitely take care of the blog comments considering the importance of it in brand reputation

Thanks for your time. You mean blog.printsasia and not (blog.bookshopasia) right?

Juts a question- blog.printsasia.com is our own official blog, we have placed links for both the sites on subdomain blog.printsasia.com. If that is the reason for penalty then why our other site is not being penalized? or why only co.uk is penalized and .com is having no issues

We have two eCommerce sites. Both the sites can broadly be divided into 3 pages

• 1. Home Page.

2. Detail Page.

3 Category Pages (Altogether our site has approx 3 Million pages each)

These are the site URLs

http://bit.ly/9tRZIi - This is targeted for USA  Audience

http://bit.ly/P8MxPR - This is targeted for UK audience

The .com domain which was launched earlier in 2011 is doing okay with decent organic traffic

Precautions Taken: To avoid content being duplicate on both the sites we are using:

a. Geo-targeting through Google webmaster tools

b. rel=alternate tag on printsasia.co.uk

Problem

1. The .co.uk domain which was launched in May 2012 started gaining organic traffic slowly but then suddenly dropped to almost 0 after September 18.

2. When we use operator site:printsasia.co.uk and apply a filter on past week/month we don't see any result. While when same operator used for "any time" we see some results.

3. According to webmaster tool, Google has indexed 95% of our URLs in the sitemap

Our concern: Is our UK site penalized for some reasons? If yes, what could be the possible reason(s) for this penalty and possible steps to get out of it? Would request if experts here can review our site and help us.

We have e-commerce site selling books. Besides basic information on books, we have content for “About the book” , “Editorial Reviews”, “About the author” etc. But the content in all these section are duplicate and are available on all sites selling similar  books.

Our question is:

1.Should we worry about the content being duplicate?2.If yes, then will it by a good idea to hide this duplicate content using javascript or iframe?

Thanks Irving for understanding it. Here are the links for both sites

http://www.printsasia.com

http://www.printsasia.co.uk

Thanks for the answer but it is really difficult to undo what has been done. We are trying to reach out as many country as we can with multiple TLDs. We have launched 2 and in next month going to come up with .de and .jp with translated content in local languages.

The idea to have co.uk, .com. .jp. .de was purely brand management, localization of currency, language barrier, some operational convenience, accounting etc.

Is there anything that can be done with the existing strategy to boost traffic?

We have 2 English language bookselling websites targeted for USA and UK audience with some content variations but 60%-70% of the content on site remains the same.

The site is hosted in USA. One is hosted on brandname.co.uk (for United Kingdom) and one is on brandname.com(For United States)

The precautions that we have already taken to save it from being marked duplicates are:

1. used rel=alternate element for all product detail pages
2. currency in both the sites are different that is GBP and USD
3. Geotarget settings done for USA and UK respectively through webmaster tools Launched backlink campaign to gain from local sites and directory respectively
4. have tried to differentiate the product by using different product specific terms like Publishing Year: vis a vis published in:

Author Vis a vis Written by

Format vis a vis binding type

Add to cart vis a vis add to basket and so on

What remains the same:

1. Product detail pageTitle

2. Product detail page Meta Description

3. Product Name- That is Title of the book which cannot be changed anyways

4. About the product text –The memo or “About the Book” that comes along with the book and is same across each booksellers site. This is impossible to be differentiated as the database have more than 3 Million books

brandname.com which is older (2 Yrs) of the two  has traffic around 2500-3000 daily visits while the brandname.co.uk which is 5 months old has 150-200 daily visitors. Both sites have around 4 Million pages.

Need suggestions what are we doing wrong and what extra can be done to boost organic traffic?

One of my clients has english language websites targeted for USA and UK audience with some content variations but60%-70% of the content on site remains the same. The site is hosted in USA. One is hosted on brandname.co.uk and one is on brandname.com. The precuations that we have already taken to save it from being marked duplicates are: 1. used rel=alternate element for all product detail pages2. currency in both the sites are different that is GBP and USD3. have tried to differenttate the product by using different product specific terms like Publishing Year: vis a vis published in:Author Vis a vis Written byFormat vis a vis binding type Add to cart vis a vis add to basket and so on

What remains the same:

1. Title structure

2. Description

3. Product Name

4. About the product text

We noticed that our website is accessible on:

http://www.example.com and

https://www.example.com

Both the versions have page rank of 4.

Though on https version we have added canonical tag indicating http:// version as preferred.

Is this fine or we need to use 301 redirect and let the site be accessible only on http:// version??

1.By geotargeting you are providing Google an indication that /fr is targeted for french audience but this alone is not enough and you may still see Google.fr showing your .eu in SERP result.

What extra needs to be done?

1. Get some local listings for your subdirectory

2. If you have the exact version of the .eu site on /fr you may use   rel="alternate" hreflang="x"

This annotations help Google serve the correct language or regional URL to searchers.

3. You may also add this meta

4. Gain some backlinks from .fr sites for your /fr pages

5. Provide option to Internally navigate users to other languages through the language menu

6. Based on Geo I.P filter you may also display a lightbox saying something like : "Hey, we have a french version of our website, would you like to use it?

I checked  the keyword transcription services position in Google Singapore and Google USA. I see it has position of Number 3 and 1 respectively.

But if you think anything wrong has happened, you must follow what has been suggested by others here. Besides, i would like to add which for me is the most striking the  moment you open the page. The occurrence of keyword "transcription" is approximately 66 times on the home page.

Excessive use of keywords can negatively impact rankings and should be avoided.

Yes, you can go ahead with that as this will be an additional signal for search engine and also positively affect the speed at which site will be accessed by the users from the targeted country.