Hi MozFans,

I have got a question out of the field about www.coloringpagesabc.com.
Question is why the rankings and traffic are going down down down the last 4 months.

Costumer thinks he got hit by google penguin update(s).

The site has about 600 page’s/posts al ‘optimized’ for old seo:
- Almost all posts are superb optimized for one keyword combination (like … coloring pages)

• there is a high keyword density on the keyword
• titles and descriptions are all the same like: <keyword>and this is the rest of my title, This is my description <keyword>and i like it
• internal linking is all with a ‘perfect’  keyword anchor text
• there is a ok backlink profile, not much links to inner pages
  -  there are social signals
• the content quality is low

The site to me looks like a seo over optimized content farm

Competition:
When I look at the competition. The most coloring pages websites don’t offer a lot of content (text) on there page. The offer a small text and the coloring pages (What it is about :-))

How to get the rankings back:
What I was thinking to do.

• rewrite the content to a smaller text. Low keyword density on the keyword and put the coloring pages up front.
• rewrite all titles and descriptions to unique titles and descriptions
• Make some internal links to related posts with a other anchor text.
• get linkbuilding going on inner pages
• get more social signals

Am I on the right track?

I can use some advise what to do, and where to start.

Thanks!!</keyword></keyword>

Maarten

Hi Alan,

Ok we start cutting the htaccess. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks!

Thanks Anthony!

That's the strange thing, website is working only there is still a 403.

We will check chmod status.

Hi Mozzers,

I got a question about new website from a new costumer http://www.eindexamensite.nl/.

There is a 403 forbidden error on it, and I can't find what the problem is.

I have checked on: http://gsitecrawler.com/tools/Server-Status.aspx
result:
URL=http://www.eindexamensite.nl/ **Result code: 403 (Forbidden / Forbidden)**

When I delete the .htaccess from the server there is a 200 OK :-). So it is in the .htaccess.

.htaccess code: ErrorDocument 404 /error.html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^home$ / [L]
RewriteRule ^typo3$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^typo3/.$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^uploads/.$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^fileadmin/.$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^typo3conf/.$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule .* index.php

Start rewrites for Static file caching

RewriteRule ^(typo3|typo3temp|typo3conf|t3lib|tslib|fileadmin|uploads|screens|showpic.php)/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^home$ / [L]

Don't pull *.xml, *.css etc. from the cache

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^..xml$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^..css$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*.php$

Check for Ctrl Shift reload

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Pragma} !no-cache
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cache-Control} !no-cache

NO backend user is logged in.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !be_typo_user [NC]

NO frontend user is logged in.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !nc_staticfilecache [NC]

We only redirect GET requests

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET

We only redirect URI's without query strings

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$

We only redirect if a cache file actually exists

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/typo3temp/tx_ncstaticfilecache/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html -f
RewriteRule .* typo3temp/tx_ncstaticfilecache/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html [L]

End static file caching

DirectoryIndex index.html

CMS is typo3.

any ideas?

Thanks!
Maarten

Thanks! All great answers, really helpful!

Hi,

I am working on a SEO project for a client.
Some of the urls have a + between the keyword.
like www.example.com/make+me+happy/

Is this good or bad for seo?
Or is it maybe better to use - ?

Thanks!

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