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Michael. thanks for the reply.

I'm 99% sure it is a duplicate content penalty. A couple of years back, through an old company, I used to run affiliate review sites which would get lots of datafeeds and build auto stores from them. These were very profitable until google clamped down on dup content, after that the sites wouldn't rank for anything.

The current site seems to be along the same lines, all seems ok for the links but it seems to have a minus x place penalty on it. I have no indexed all the affiliate pages on the new site (an oversight when making it) so, in time, I would expect the penalty to be removed, however cannot be sure if this will be weeks, months or never

Oops not sure how I ended up with a pound sign in the title

Wondering if I could get a few views on this please...

I have added an affiliate store to a domain I own, however I forgot to noindex the product pages which were duplicate content of the merchants. Despite a good deal of backlink building the site will not do much in the engines at all, doesn't even come up on the first few pages for it's own name!

This suggests to me that I have a duplicate content penalty. Try as I may I cannot get it removed so am thinking of cloning the domain to a new domain, however, I do not want to lose the links I collected so I am planning on 301ing them.

While I will not get all the link power moved over, I should at least get credit for some of them which will kick start the new domain.

Can anyone forsee any potential issues with doing this? Is there a danger of 301ing a site with a penalty that the penalty would be carried over? I know there is no penalty on the links, no WMT warnings etc, it is the content causing the issue.

Thanks,

Carl

Wondering if I could garner some views on this issue please.

I'm about to add an affiliate store to a website I own, the site has a couple of pages of unique content (blogs, articles, advice etc on home improvement - all written by my team). Obviously, the affiliate store will not be unique content, it will be made using the datafeeds from cj.com et al, and so I don't want to get any duplicate content type penalties from Google for this store.

Should I add a no index to the pages and allow the bots to still crawl them, or should I add no index and no follow?  Ideally I would like to get the affiliate store category pages indexed as they will be a mixture of lots of different merchants and be fairly unique.

Can Google still mark the site down for duplicate content if it can crawl it, even if it is noindex?

Thanks,

Carl

Thanks, I think that's part of the problem. We haven't noted progress as well as we could, i'll try the approach contact info for the domains, contact form etc and see how we get on. Be nice if I could get all the links in one spreadsheet but that's proving difficult due to the volume of links and the links on the research tools.

Marie, I agree that it's not just that one domain. We have been putting the leg work in and getting a reasonable amount removed but it's just very hard to get the blog comment spam removed as site owner has not interest in changing half their site

Thanks for the reply, very interesting read. I have tried to disavow at domain level before but doesn't seem to have helped much. I guess this is because of the sheer volume of links on some sites, I can find over 75,000 links to the domain on just 4 websites!!!! so if i missed one or two of these out then the rejection is understanable.

The big problem seem to be facing is the sheer volume of links. The Moz toolbar is picking up 534,918 links to the site from 1,400 domains which says there are a lot of links on a few domains. Even using OSE, GWT and Majestic i'm only getting a small amount each time owing to limits in the tools.

Will give your approach a try and block almost everything and then send a reconsideration in detailing the previous failures and hope they take pity.

If it were just one link on a site that is fairly easy to remove but they must understand i cannot email a webmaster and say can you remove links from 36,000 of your pages

On a related note. How come the moz bar tells me over 500k links, Majestic tells me 50k links (the max they report) but when I run OSE it says 44 root domains and 88 links

Wondering if anyone could help me. A client is suffering a Google penalty at the moment which is harming their performance. That said it is properly the best penalty they could have got..the site has a penalty which is stopping them ranking as high on keywords which they have been spamming links for. I say the best penalty they could have got because, other than these keywords, the site is still performing as well as before in the engines.

Have been trying to clear up the backlinks for the past couple of months and just when I think im winning I discover some 32,000 blog comments on one domain 6 weeks or so ago!! - [http://www. iimpact.co.uk/blog/about?ss=%25&replytoc&rep&d=http://8;d=http://166",.moveForm("comment-1628", "1628", addComment.m&replytocom=265](http://www.iimpact.co.uk/blog/about?ss=%25&replytoc&rep&d=http://8;d=http://166",.moveForm("comment-1628", "1628", addComment.m&replytocom=265) example url, I broke it on purpose as to not make it a backlink

With that many links i will not even try and contact the site, I put in the disavow in google that there is no way I can get these removed and explained it etc, however, they, again, rejected the reconsideration request saying they are still not happy with the links.

At a bit of a loss here. It's starting to look that the best approach will be to write off the half a dozen terms and go a little more long tail.

The site will not rank for (this is an example as would not want to give the client away) door knockers. They used to be first page but now are page four. However they remain page one for terms such as brass door knockers, cheap door knockers, chrome door knockers etc.

In WMT ranking report they have hits from 1200 words ranking in the top 5 in the past 30 days and 3000 in the top ten.

Im a considering trying to up the rankings of these words at the expense of the ones which we cannot seem to get the penalty off.

Any thoughts please.

So you have time to respond with sarcasm but can't be bothered to address the issues I raise? Nice.

Thanks for the reply, customer services. I didn't mark it as product support for the fun of it

Yes, it's the homepage of the site so in the sitemap. I will try resubmitting the sitemap manually and seeing if that helps.

Thanks, Carl

Probably the complete opposite to all the questions asked on here before hehe

One of my online stores is ranking in Google at no2 for a service we used to offer but no longer do as we do not have the contract anymore.We need to derank the listing as fast as we can we do not offer this service now. Normally we could just get google to deindex the page but it's the homepage we are ranking. It is ranking due to a good collection of exact match backlinks on.

Have been trying to get our page off the first page for a couple of months but it appears that we did too good a job of getting it up there...it's not moving!

Anyone have a suggestion please on how we can get off page one asap for this keyword without deindexing the homepage for our store?

note: the keyword in question has not appeared on the site for a couple of months, removing that has had no impact on the ranking

Thanks

Thanks that's along the lines of my thinking. Although given google considers the bounce rate as ranking factor I hope it's just the bounce rate from and to the serps and doesn't include affiliate links

Finally finished and returned an empty report!! Does anything around here work!! If it's not OSE breaking, it's moz analytics not working with G+, keep forgetting Twitter info, cookie problems with chrome etc

A bit of a strange question this one:

I have a domain which, when on my Dutch server, can get new blog posts indexed and ranking in less than 10 mins using the pubsubshubbub plugin. However, I moved the blog and domain to a UK dedicated server and continued to post. Days later none of these posts were indexed. I then moved the domain back to the Dutch server to test this, I posted in the blog and once again, indexed and ranking in 20 mins or so.

To cut a long and tedious story short; In a bid to be closer to my customers I moved the domain to a UK VPS three days back. I posted but no posts are indexed.

Anyone else experienced anything like this? Generally I don't move domains back and forward so much but wanted to test this out. The Ducth server is a 16 core 24gb Direct Admin dedicated, the two UK servers were both running Cpanel.

I understand that it would be best to host as close to possible to the customers but the hardship of getting posts indexed in the UK is becoming a problem.

Thanks, Carl

Thanks for the replies gents'. I guess I'll have to do it the old fashioned way of going out and reviewing fashion blogs and try to convince people that they should write a blog on my site instead of their own. I need to establish a strong brand so being invited to write becomes an honour and people would jump at the chance.

Hi

Personally I still use article submission for link building. Although it is now mixed with other link building techniques such as guest posting (which I suppose could technically be called article submission), I find that it works well.

That said, I think the days of sending an article out to hundreds of websites for hundreds of links are over. You need to choose the article sites more carefully these days and it will provide benefit.

I use Ezine and article base as well as Knol, Article dashboard. Isnare is also good if you want the article to appear on lots of sites, but be aware these may not be the best quality sites. nor in the same niche as yours.

Thanks for the reply, customer services. I didn't mark it as product support for the fun of it

I'm a member of raven tools and, maybe it's just me, I dont find it that useful for link builiding. What I do like about it though is the ability to manage all my seo clients and my own websites from one place. It's easy to view the analtyics for a lot of websites quickly, the ranking reports are great and my clients love the the automated monthly reports it sends out, all branded in their logo etc. I personally think raven is a great tool to manage the reporting and analtyic side of my work.

So you have time to respond with sarcasm but can't be bothered to address the issues I raise? Nice.