Google Panda and Penguin... Anyone Hurting?

andybot

hmm, I guess it's a good justification for being lazy with my website, since it seems the more you "scheme" the worse your rankings...

Really, I can see both sides, especially when you look at all the garbage websites that come up when you search for keywords.

My suggestion (which was the best suggestion from a decent SEO guy) is to have a blog and post content regularly with natural keywording. My blog gets probably 100x better search results than my website for common keywords.

Andy

andybot

Kris - looked at your website - just a thought - could you set up a blog, and blog weekly maybe with a different house plan featured each week? That way you can get a more "natural" looking site for the search engines.

Rich O Brien

This guy mentions the impact on his site and shows some changes he made...

http://www.freewaregenius.com/googles-belligerent-panda-why-the-way-google-does-algorithm-updates-hurts-small-sites-and-gives-larger-sites-an-unfair-advantage/#three

I used follow his blog for a few years but it's not as relevant these days but I remember reading about it so thought I'd share his thoughts.

Krisidious

Thanks guys...

Yes I do need to add a blog. I think I have that functionality... I've been reading around and making some changes.
http://www.aboveallhouseplans.com/

cleaning up some lil messes but overall I still don't know what the problem is and still only get around 400 hits a day. very depressing.

got back to work on Link deleted so I'll take the shotgun effect and see how that works.

Krisidious

Thanks Rich that was good stuff... I read it back when you posted it and have been taking some of his advice.

Gaieus

Kri, is that header refresh (set to 0) deliberately on that site?

Krisidious

which site?

Krisidious

if you're tlaking about sketchup house plans than I have it set to not cache anything right now because I'm working on it and it makes me dump the cache when I make changes. so it's just easier. but on aboveallhouseplans.com I didn't know if it was set to 0.

and I'm not sure I set it that way or what it actually does. these are both shopping cart installations. not static html like I'm used to.

Gaieus

The SU Plans. This is all that appears in the source code:


<HTML> <HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; url=http://198.101.155.38">  </HEAD> </HTML>

and it keeps constantly refreshing.

Krisidious

oh... that site isn't really live. I shouldn't have posted it. That's the domain name forwarding. I'm using a host file hack to point it.

Krisidious

ok I fixed it... sorry. Link deleted

Gaieus

Kris, the same stuff. Why is that refresh code in the header at all?

Krisidious

It's not me... it's the web-host forwarding the domain until it propagates. which obviously isn't working.

Gaieus

Such things should not be written into the head section of an html file. It should be set under the DNS settings on the server.

Krisidious

Yeah it's their thing... I had no idea. Like I said I was using a host hack so I could work on it. I think it may be working now. maybe.

Gaieus

Yes, it "works" now. But get that thing off very quickly. It's an installation wizard and you do not want anyone to hack your system at this vulnerable stage (in fact, I have deleted the link now so that no-one has any stupid ideas...)

Krisidious

no actually it's still not working as that installation page is on the old server and it's can't install because the system is incompatible with that host's server. but thanks for lookin out for me.

only this link works. http://sketchup-house-plans.com/ this one is still broken,. http://www.sketchup-house-plans.com/

ok I think I might have it fixed now.