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It was manual - mainly with my FAQ pages, sizing guide, etc.

I still have loads of duplicate with TERMS and CONDITIONS and PRIVACY POLICY.  Is this something to block in robots.txt?

Thanks.  So to confirm, because Google de-indexes that page, I no longer have to worry about duplicate content for that particular page?

I have several sites copying my content, which I found out via Copyscape.com.  Unfortunately, this is giving me duplicate content.

I filed a DMCA complaint through Google and the infringing pages were approved but the pages still remain.

Can someone please help me understand this better?  I thought Google was supposed to remove these pages?  Am I supposed to content the site owner to get the content removed or are their pages simply de-indexed?

Thanks for peeking.  I thought it could take up to two weeks though?  When I tested in rich snipnets, my photo popped up and said I was verified.    I hope I really am  - yikes.

Thanks Matt.  I have an ecommerce site.  When you say "business page" do you mean product pages or content pages like FAQ, About Us, Terms and Conditions, etc?  Just want to make sure I'm understand correctly.

Thanks!

Angela

I've set up Google authorship but is it a good idea to set up publisher markup too?

I THINK I may have figured it out!  Can someone be so kind to check this link for me to see if it works?  I put it in the structured data testing tool in WMT and it seems to work - I think!

http://alturl.com/zy4ca

I'm using 3dcart and it has a built-in blog. I'm kind of confused how to implement Google authorship with that platform.

I set up my Google+ but am not using WP nor do I have a Plug-In so I need to manually enter the string of code into the html of my blog post.

Can someone give me the exact code to enter?  I've read some info about this, but can't seem to get it right.

Thanks!

I have several sites copying the content from my pages.  I filed numerous complaints with Google and checked under the DMCA dashboard and it's showing my requests are approved; however, still several days later the infringing pages still remain.

I'm a bit confused by this as I thought Google was supposed to remove the page.  I guess I'm not understand why it was "approved" when I don't see changes.

Am I supposed to contact the site's owner to get the pages down now?  I don't want to show duplicate content to my site.

Please help!

Thanks Nakul.  I had a good reason to submit one.    Is there a good rule of thumb on how often to do this?

OK good to know.  So how does that work in terms of backlinks to my site?  Does Google like sites like PR Web because I noticed they links pointed to sites in the articles are FOLLOW links.

Are sites such as Marketwire, PRWeb, PRnewswire, BusinessWire, e-Releases and PitchEngine good for editorial back links?

Also, if I have a press release on PRWeb, for example, can I have the EXACT same one on Martketwire, etc or do I need to worry about duplicate content?

Yes they disclose that it is sponsored.

Thanks for your reply.   Is it better to have 2 good quality backlinks (editorial) vs one excellent one?

For example:

domain1 has a domain authority of 52 with a page rank of 4

domain2 has a domain authority of 72 with a page rank of 5

Both fit well into my niche, but the offbeatbride bride post is $475 more and wasn't sure if the higher domain authority and page rank is worth it in terms of getting a boost from Google.

Ok maybe this is a dumb question.  I really need some better, more quality backlinks pointing to my site.

There is a site that has domain authority of 72, page rank 5 that is offering me a sponsored blog post.

Do sponsored posts count as a good editorial link?  Also what if they are no-follow (and how would I find out ahead of time), does that still give me link juice?

Tech team at 3dcart said there is no way of fixing their blog.  Pretty crazy they released it like that.

Is it better to create a subdomain blog.domain name or can I just put the self hosted WP blog in a folder to my site like this:  domainname/blog?

I just want  Google to see fresh content to my site all the time, I'd go with whichever one works best.

I just hired a content writer to blog on my site, but I want to make sure I have the right blog set up properly before doing so.

I currently have my blog on my own domain. http://alturl.com/ixd7p   It's a pretty crappy blog, to be quite frank.  (The link to the blog is in the footer).  It doesn't allow me to change category titles so it's throwing duplicate content - not good.

I am seriously considering getting a self hosted Wordpress blog and linking that to my site instead at 3dcart- so it will be blog.domainname.comMy CONCERN.... I always heard that it's best to have the blog right right on the eCommerce site (just as I have it now) because it keeps feeding the domain fresh content.  If I have a self hosted Wordpress blog and have it linked to my site, will it still feed my site fresh content?

I have a question for someone about blogs.  I have two - one on my website and one at Wordpress.  How long are blog posts supposed to be and is it okay to have links pointing from my WP blog to my website?  I'm not sure how that looks in the eyes of Panda.

Chad - how long was your dip?

Thanks for adding that, Ryan.  You offered me great info.  

I believe the 404 and 301 redirect errors are corrected for the most part.  In regard to the 301 errors, all is fixed except I am still left with redirects to my chat server, view cart links, and "add this" share for my social buttons. Is this something I can block in robots.txt?

I'm also working to adding more content to my site.  Basically, I'm trying to do the most possible on the back end of 3dcart with my current design (don't want to move over to Wordpress) before I hire an SEO to help further. I also enabled the mobile device too.

Sincerely,

Angela

Thanks Dana!  just emailed you.

Hi Dana,

Thanks so much for your quick reply!  I switched carts on June 15 and 301 redirected old URL to new URL.  That part was definitely done correctly.

I moved from wahmshoppes.com to 3dcart.

Here is my sister site that my site USED to be on over at wahmshoppopes.com   I've pretty much ignored it and doesn't generate much traffic, but I still keep it running.  It shows a perfect example how my old product URLs used to look:  http://alturl.com/z2g6w

The scary part is that I'm still dropping down.  I know something is terribly wrong and it's so upsetting because my site used to generate so much traffic and pretty much dominated my competition.  

Angela

Hello,

I'm really desperate for some help.  I believe I've been hit by Panda as traffic started diminishing late March for my 6 year old website.  I've never had a sharp drop, only gradual.  I've lost a load traffic since then.  I did change shopping carts in June since I had a a canonical issue from my old cart that couldn't be corrected.  The old cart also did not allow me to have unique product titles and the urls were garbled with letters, numbers, etc...   I know Panda did not like that.

I've made several changes (cleaned up broken links, added more content to my site, added Disallow: /search/  and Disallow: /search to my robots.txt file to avoid duplicate content from my search box.)

My most prized keywords (tutu and tutus) are on page 15 or so of Google now, when they used to be on page 1 or 2 at the worst.  Other good ones are slipping too.

I do need to hire an SEO to optimize my titles eventually as I believe my they are still a bit stuffed but before I do that, I am just trying to get the other stuff done first.

My main questions are this... Do any of you see something else that looks bad to you in the eyes of Google?  I'd love the cold, hard truth as I'm pretty desperate for my site to recover, if at all possible.

Thank you in advance!

Here is my site:   http://alturl.com/mvmux