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I started with a static website and then moved to Wordpress. At the time I had a few hundred pages and wanted to keep the same URL structure so I use a plugin that adds .html to every page.
Should I change the structure to a more common URL structure and do 301 directs from the .html page to the regular page?
I have a book with 8 pages which I offer free on my site:
http://www.pottytrainingchart4kids.com/free-potty-training-book/
For technical reasons each of the 8 pages are on a seperate page. This might cause thin content/duplicate content since most of the code is the same besides the images and there isn't much on each page.
How would you suggest I deal with this? I remember once reading about rel prev or something like that but I am not sure if it is applicable. I would like all page rank to go to the main page. Should I add no index to the other pages? I am not really sure what I should do to prevent a Panda penalty.
Thanks in advance!
It turned out that it was caused by Google Page Speed. They told me that it was fine and nothing to worry about but I just disabled it due to server issues and I guess that is what made the code disappear...
I am looking to change to a new hosting company.
I am debating between taking a company that specializes in Wordpress and performance but is situated far from my users or a local company that might not be as good from a performance/speed point of view.
Which do you think I should go with?
My users are near Europe and the Wordpress hosting that I am considering is in the US.
It is indexed but the problem is that most of the indexed pages are outdated and the new ones haven't been crawled.
I would LOVE to know whats up with all of that code. I have been trying to uncover that with no success.... I have no idea where it comes from but also no idea how to find out 
My link profile contains natural links only. I have never asked for a link or even exchanged links with anyone.
About 4 years ago my site was hacked and the hackers linked to the content that they inserted in my forum. I have since erased the forum and disavowed the links even though over the years the spammy sites stopped linking to me anyway since their content was removed. This was a long time ago anyway so I don't think it is relevant.
I don't have that many links although the ones I have all linked to me because I have unique content.
My bounce rate has always been around 1%. My users seem to enjoy my content and spend time on my site. My rankings also went down very much since Google stopped crawling. I can't work out why.
I have a lot of 404 errors which appear in Google Webmaster Tools but don't appear on my site anymore.
About a month ago I had a problem with Wordpress permalinks and for about 10 hours my posts were crawled under a slightly different URL. During that time many posts were crawled and therefore existed under 2 different URLs. I have since fixed the problem but since Google hasn't really come back to crawl so the errors still appear.
Google used to crawl my site every few minutes.
Suddenly it stopped and the last week it indexed 3 pages out of thousands.
What could cause this to happen and how can I solve this problem?
Thanks!
My rankings suddenly dropped and when trying to understand why I realized that nearly all images in Google's cached version of my site were missing. In the actual site they appear but in the cached version they don't.
I noticed that most of the images had a ?6b5830 at the end of the URL and these were the images that were not showing.
I am hoping that I found the reason for the drop in rankings. Maybe since Google cannot see a lot of the content it decided not to rank it as well (particularly since it seems to happen on thousands of pages).
This is a cached version of my site
I am using the following plugins that might be causing it: Yoasts SEO plugin, W3 total cache.
Thanks in advance!
I checked and I don't have any notices. I think it is related to an algo and not to a penalty as I haven't done anything that I could be penalized for.
It used to rank for behavior charts but it doesn't anymore.
No. It isn't new. It is indexed but just doesn't rank at all although it used to. I don't know when it stopped ranking so its difficult to know which algo caused it to stop ranking.
Can you please tell me why this page is not ranking.
The page doesn't rank at all for keywords but even if I copy a line or 2 of text it still doesn't rank for that text.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thank you both for your responses. I will make the changes that you suggested.
Is it better to present the images as thumbnails with a link to the full size image (as I have done) or in a wordpress gallery?
I have a site based on downloadable images which tend to slow a site. In order to increase speed I divided certain pages up so that there will be less images on each page such as here:
The problem is that I now have potential duplicate content and thin content.
Should I consolidate them and put all of the content from the 3 pages on one page? or maybe keep them as they are but add a rel previous / next tag? or any other suggestion to prevent a duplicate/thin content penalty while not slowing down the site too much?
I want to buy an app/program that will help me create unique content but the content will be inserted to the page via an iframe. I have heard that iframes are problematic. I know that there will not be a lot of indexable content from this but I think that it will make people want to link to me. I would like to hear from someone's experience if I should go ahead or not.
My rankings and traffic suddenly went down about 50% around the end of Feb 2013.
I never received any warnings in webmaster tools (and as far as I know never did anything even vaguely black hat) but thought it might be a penalty since the drop was so steep and as far as I know there were no major algo updates at the time.
I sent a reconsideration request expecting to receive an answer that I have no manual penalty. Instead, I received the following email:
We received a request from a site owner to reconsider how we index the following site: http://www.sitename.com/.
We've now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it's in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines. If we don't find any problems, we'll reconsider our indexing of your site. If your site still doesn't appear in our search results, check our Help
There have been no changes in my rankings.
Does this reply mean that I have/had a manual penalty?