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Thanks Matt, Joey, Joseph and Keszi for your feedback.

I will investigate and see what I can come up with.

I will update any progress.

Cheers

M

Hi,

I've been working on a site for about 5 years. We built the traffic up to about 8k visitors/day.

Although now it's dropped down over the past 2 years to about 2k visitors a day.

New traffic source is mainly from SEO longtail.

The whole time we have been working to improve the site.

What's the best way to get some help from experts on the right direction to get traffic back up or to at least tell me the site will never work

Thanks in advance.

M

No. We're actually not launching this initiative for SEO purposes. We just want to create value for our users and having their own stand-alone website is valuable to them.

I just want to make sure we're structured properly from an SEO point of view so that we don't compromise the SEO of our marketplace, or their stand-alone site.

Also, each site has unique content, but it is identical data to their marketplace store. So, every seller has a marketplace store (with items, a profile etc) AND a stand-alone website (with the same items, same profile etc, just designed differently and accessible via a sub-domain).

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks so much for your input.

I must admit, I'm not too familiar with Panda, so will need to do some digging there. We literally launched the new version of Zibbet 2 months ago, with different meta data etc, so I'm not sure how that affects it.

If we don't add the rel=canonical, do you think we'll get punished by Google?

Hey MOZperts,

I run a marketplace called Zibbet.com and we have 1000s of individual stores within our marketplace. We are about to launch a new initiative giving all sellers their own stand-alone websites.

URL structure:
Marketplace URL: http://www.zibbet.com/pillowlink
Stand-alone site URL: http://pillowlink.zibbet.com (doesn't work yet)

Essentially, their stand-alone website is a duplicate of their marketplace store. Same items (item title, description), same seller bios, same shop introduction content etc but it just has a different layout. You can scroll down and see a preview of the different pages (if that helps you visualize what we're doing), here.

My Questions: My desire is for both the sellers marketplace store and their stand-alone website to have good rankings in the SERPS.

• Is this possible?
• Do we need to add any tags (e.g. "rel=canonical") to one of these so that we're not penalized for duplicate content? If so, which one?
• Can we just change the meta data structure of the stand-alone websites to skirt around the duplicate content issue?

Keen to hear your thoughts and if you have any suggestions for how we can handle this best.

Thanks in advance!

Great, thanks mate. Making sense now

I thought Google would prevent against this sort quick rising?

I used opensite explorer.

Thanks Dan. I ran a full report and the only metric this site wins on is "mT/mR"

Can you have a quick look at the full report and comment?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27301853/keyword-love quotes.xls

Cheers

Mark

I'm doing some research for the term "love quotes"

I'm trying to understand why following URL is ranking so high

quote-monster.com/category/love-quotes/

it only has one link?

Any advise would be appreciated.

Rgds

Mark

Thanks Matt, Joey, Joseph and Keszi for your feedback.

I will investigate and see what I can come up with.

I will update any progress.

Cheers

M