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I've changed the title of the post and wondering how we go about adding tags or iframe to content.

Thanks for your reply Irving I really appreciate your help, we moved from a home business to a premises with staff and overheads in March last year, traffic growing month on month then bang just my luck!

This is the URL www.keepitpersonal.co.uk

This is an example of one of the product pages, scroll down and check out "recent personalisation requests" - these are generated as sales come in.

http://www.keepitpersonal.co.uk/silver-personalised-noahs-ark-money-box-p-108.html

I have fixed duplicate content issues, using canonical tags and errors in webmaster tools and fixed technical issues but it just gets worse.

Hi Around the time of the April/May 2012 penguin update we lost around 40% of traffic and ever since traffic has slowly been reduced to around 50% of what is was from last year from approx 1000 hits a day to under 500. I'm not convinced totally that penguin is to blame as link building has not been overdone especially when other companies who rank first page for "personalised gifts" have 100's of anchor links pointing back to there sites with this term as the link. I think our site may be hit due to accidental keyword stuffing! Basically when an order is placed the product page is updated with the last message to be engraved on the item, so for example if someone buys 10 wine glasses all personalised with "happy birthday mum, happy birthday dad, happy birthday son etc or if customers choose similar engraving then we have lots of combinations of the same words repeated. This information has increased the number of conversions as it gives customers ideas as what to engrave and I don't really want to remove it from the page. Could anyone advise me on what i need to do, is there a way of telling google to ignore this text, a way of hiding without being penalised? Any ideas greatly appreciated!

Hi Irving

Our main competitor has double the keyword density on their homepage - a fair point though and I will as a result reduce the occurence of this phrase and see if this has an impact.

I am seeing spam in search results for #1 placements for competetive phrases which is a first since I have started in 2008 - i'm thinking that we might just have to ride this out until Google fixes the algorithm or forces us to survive on adwords like so many other effected companies... Although it seems Penguin has hit us, we don't have the link profile for such a hit.

Regards

Andy

Thanks Adam i'm suprised we were hit by penguin and we don't really try to get links to be honest and concentrate on creating content. Our PR went to 0 from 2 after the Penguin update, we emailed google for reconsideration and the PR returned but not the rankings

I've noticed even today that lot's of our products which were put on in 2008 when we set up have the almost duplicate metatags and descriptions so I am going through the time consuming task of updating these.

Thanks for your time and the link I will take a look and get back to you!

Hi Adam

We were really hit by the Penguin update approx end of May / Early June.

Our site is www.keepitpersonal.co.uk

Thanks!!

Hi

I have been smacked by the penguin/panda and traffic plumetted back in April/May. We are still trying to recover and am looking at all of the potential issues.

I have since cleaned up the site as much as i can and attempted to remove as much duplicate content as possible which is automatically generated by Zencart.

We add content regularly and have new product reviews everyday and all product page are kept fresh as they show the last 12 customers engraving details which change daily on popular items.

Could someone give me some pointers as i am hitting my head against the wall and only seeing traffic drop all the time, it's soul destroying just how much work i am putting into this every day without any effect.

Site is www.keepitpersonal.co.uk

Kind Regards

Andy