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« on: Nov 17, 2007, 01:21:21 AM »
I recently made some major changes in my article site, i upped the translated languages from five to 12, and transferred files from one directory to another. After that change, Google stopped sending me visitors. Is my site under penalty? Is this forever or just temporary? sob sob sob
« Last Edit: Nov 17, 2007, 03:30:54 AM by vbignacio »
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« Reply #1 on: Nov 17, 2007, 08:51:33 AM »
You have duplicated content right?, this way it could be over my Youtube video site has up 2000 uniques day (google traffic) went down to 1000 earlier and since begin of nov. (overnight) to 300-500.
I think they changed the logarithm during the last update because I see many differences since them
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« Reply #6 on: Nov 18, 2007, 04:01:03 PM »
No I don't think its a bad thing that you increased pages And I think google is smart enough to know that you actually increased the pages with adding new languages
Did some of the old URLs change ?? (maybe you can check your 404 errors and see maybe you get hits where there was once valid pages ?)
Did you check your serps ? maybe you dropped in serps and its actually irrelevant to your changes
But maybe also google is still trying to determine (because of your changes) where to RANK you ... How old is the site ??
OLAF: duplicate content penalty does not apply within the same site ... I have seen discussed it in an interview with Vanesa Fox (former employee of Google)
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« Reply #7 on: Nov 18, 2007, 11:58:29 PM »
i checked their last visit to my site, and it was nov 12th. the following day, they stopped sending me visitors, only a handful and has been like that ever since.
i transferred some files but i made a 301 redirect to the new location so people will still find the pages as Nik has taught me.
my article site is about seven months old and has a pagerank of 4.
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« Reply #9 on: Nov 19, 2007, 10:46:49 AM »
I THINK Since your site is quite new (7 months old) it could be part of the google dance ... that is the process for them to determine what position your site deserves to be on (Rank of you site in SERPs)
is it still in their index ? site:domain.com do you still have SOME traffic from them ?
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« Reply #12 on: Nov 19, 2007, 11:12:11 PM »
it was duplicate content even before, yet i get 200-300 uniques from google esp. from translated pages. so they caught me using duplicate content when i made the changes as what olaf said?
« Last Edit: Nov 19, 2007, 11:15:35 PM by vbignacio »