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This was a panda issue. It's fixed now. We lowered the outbound link count and cleaned up the site as a whole. Traffic is at about 70% of what it was.

Thanks Ryan. I just updated the meta descriptions to all be unique. I just started working with this blog so we've done no optimization yet besides fixing the duplicate title tag issue.

Webmasters shows no issues except of course the duplicate description tags, 1700 in all.

I've just never seen this before. How can someone rank really well for semi-competitive terms that their posts are about, but you can do searches on their Titles or Exact Text Snippets from their posts and find them on google. It kind of seems like a contradiction.

Any other suggestions?

Hey guys, just some more info:

We're talking about a blog here that has a 100% natural link profile, no link building efforts. The blog gets tens of thousands of visits per day from search. It's well established. I'm also a SEO consultant so i know my stuff. I've covered all the basics. This is an advanced question if you know what i mean. Webmasters reveals no issues. Traffic suddenly drop by about 50% 10 days ago. All of the sudden you couldn't search her title and find her even though you could find her doing this two weeks ago before the sudden drop off.

I am working on a blog http://www.possessionista.com which is a very popular fashion blog. It is very well established with a 100% natural link profile and zero spammy stuff. The blog ranks #1 for random fashion terms like "kourtney kardashian cat eye sunglasses" and "emily maynard boots".

The problem I am experiencing is that none of the actual titles of her posts or any of the content in the post results in her blog showing up if searched.

EX: http://www.possessionista.com/2011/10/pippa-middletons-zip-jacket.html

When you search "Pippa Middleton's Zip Jacket" on google her blog is nowhere to be found. Try searching allintitle:"Pippa Middleton's Zip Jacket" and she's nowhere to be found either. Even search "The other day, I met with my friend Kiran for our monthly mutual admiration society" on google and she's nowhere to be found even thoguh this is a unique snippet from her post.

This post is already indexed and cached with the above mentioned details. i've also tested dozens of older posts as well. Same issue.

You can actually do this to see a more clear picture:

Do a google search for: allintitle:Bachelorette Fashion: Episode 2 - Ashley Hebert Brown site:possessionista.com

That will bring up her blog which means google recognizes that the phrase is in her META title. Now do a google search for: allintitle:Bachelorette Fashion: Episode 2 - Ashley Hebert Brown without the site: included. She does not pop up but other people do.

I did find that she had a duplicate title tag for a few weeks, but I've fixed that. Her posts used to pop up #1 when you search the title, but now obviously not. I am kind of at a loss and have tried a bunch of options with no success.

Oh, one other thing is that some people do scrape her content, but only a few like maybe 10 and they've always been doing it even when she used to rank for her own post titles.

Have you guys experienced this issue? Do you have any ideas of how to fix it?

Without giving all of your secrets away, what are your basic link building tactics?

I'm trying to do everything legit, but man is it tough to get links from legit sites. This is the first time I've truly had to go out and build links. I am trying to partner with bloggers in my industry to post a review of our site and submitted to some of the major paid directories and stuff like that, but I'm curious to know what the pro's do.

I agree that maybe a higher default item count might help, but you should also explore your ability to use nofollows to force google to index the category pages with item count "all" instead of 15. most of the time this can be done with some creativity and minor tweaks.

You may want to do that from an xml sitemap. You can find sites out there that will build a sitemap for you for free and then just open it in excel and you should have all of your urls in a list. NOw that doesn't answer your question of just the urls in google, but you will get all of the ones in google and then some if you do it the way suggested. Better overkill than underkill. Hope that helps!

I have a site, PricesPrices.com where I'm steadily building inbound links and pagerank. I have about 4600 pages on the site, most of which are baby products in the baby gear sector. There are many outdated items that aren't really my focus, but do pop up in long-tail search queries from time to time.

My question is a pretty basic one. Theoretically if a site has say 28/100 link juice, then as you go deeper and deeper into the site, the link juice is divided more and more. My question: Is this really true or just a concept?

My thoughts are to hide many of the products that i don't really need to focus on therefor passing more link juice to the products that remain, but I also don't want to that if it won't necessarily make the remaining pages rank higher or have more link juice. I also have to keep in mind the merchandising aspect of the site and providing a good user experience. If i only have 300 products on the site, there will be a ton of unhappy people who can't find the products they are looking for.

Any thoughts and/or pointers in the direction of funneling that pagerank down into my site would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Steve, if you have products with multiple color variations and each color variation has it's own page with a unique title, but duplicate product information is that bad as well?