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thats brilliant how you have got links on them high profile websites! time is an issue that i have. Writing a truly creative piece can take days which is the thing i struggle with most.

In terms on the URL...the URL has always been www.colourbanners.co.uk its just the structure of the deeper pages i.e. www.colourbanners.co.uk/products/mesh-banners all changed.

I don't know whether this triggered something, but there was a huge drop in August (ahrefs shows this pretty well)

I know there are some shoddy links - some of which i disavowed but with no manual penalty im treading carefully. I'm leaning towards it being a problem with the anchor text distribution.

yes its banners.

Yes i guest blog and so i am extremely selective on where my posts go.

I know 'content is king' and all that, but realistically, but how much content can you write about colour banners that gets people interested? its tough and so paying for guest blogs on relevant sites is (in my opinion) still plausible and extremely important.

What are your thoughts on this drop and what would you do?

cheers

gezzagregz

Hi Guys,

I need some opinion on a website i am working on www.colourbnners.co.uk

They updated their website in August but the company they used did not take into account the URL structure and hence there's a massive loss in links in August time.

They also dropped off Google for all their key terms except their brand name 'colour banners'
Since then, they have implemented a 301 redirect.

Some key points

• They have not received any manual warnings in WMT
• I have disavowed some poor quality links that they have built over the years
• I am building high quality links quite selectively/slowly
• There were a lot of duplicate content issues - these have been resolved now.
  So my question to you SEO pros is do you think its penguin? or something that i am missing?
  If it is penguin, what is the best form of attack to get it removed?

regards

gezzagrez

Hi guys,

I would like your opinions on this site www.colourbanners.co.uk

Seems to be ranking for 'colour banners' but has dropped for keywords such as 'banners' and 'pvc banners' which were ranking well.

There has been no manual actions against the site so im assuming this is an algo penalty?

Any ideas/suggestions what could be causing this?

regards

Gerry

many thanks Geoff,

so by putting <link rel="<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank">canonical</a>" href="http://www.colourbanners.co.uk"> in the head of

http://www.colourbanners.co.uk/index.htm tells Google that the latter is a dupe?

Just want to make sure i have it right,

Cheers

HI Chris,When looking at on-site explorer i only get 472 links in total? im confused now

regards

Gerry

thanks.

I will apply the rel=cal too. The site www.colourbanners.co.uk dropped off the face of the earth for many of its key terms,

Although still ranking from the brand name.

No manual actions in WMT and the link profile is quite natural (brand name is the majority)

Could this dupe content be the key?

Your opinions and thoughts are welcome

Hi geoff,

thanks for your response. So a 301 may not be enough?

I want al pages with the www. to be the origional pages so would i apply the following to any duplicated pages;

<link rel="<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank">canonical</a>" href="http:www.colourbanners.co.uk">

(i.e. thi tag would be added to the other dupe home pages)??

your help is much appreciated

Thanks for the advice everyone

I 301 redirected alot of pages as it appeared that each page of the site had 2 URL variations.

Will Google auto de-index these duplicated URLs? How long does it take? I only just put the redirect on but the duplicate issue is still showing as an issue in MOZ (when does MOZ update?)regards,

Gerry

Hi Guys,

I have just created a report in Moz and there appears to be 91 duplicate content issues with the site which i need to fix as i think it could be the reason why we are suffering from a penalty.

One of the main questions i have is these 3 variations of the URL

http://www.colourbanners.co.uk/ http://colourbanners.co.ukhttp://colourbanners.co.uk/Each have links pointing to them. My question is, could this be causing a dupe issue?regardsGerry