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Hello Hafiskani Your blog only has a single post - and it isn't really very useful. There is no terms of use and no privacy policy. I haven't looked at your external link profile, but from what you said,you've redirected all of the bad incoming links to your home page. That is probably a bad thing. You would be better off either removing all the 301s and losing all of the links or reviewing the external links and only redirecting for good sites pointing to the old pages. If your previous pages were as thin as this new one, my guess is that all of your old links were not from good quality or related sites, so readirecting them to the home page is a great way to tell google you love those bad links, and you're not prepared to give them up. I just searched for your domain and I see you had previously been busy going around to blogs and dns test and stats sites, getting listings and links. Some of those blogs are completely unrelated to your old posts. I didn't see any blogs that were good quality, that willingly linked to your posts because they were useful. I don't want to say that it is a lost cause, but either you need to continue on with this blog or dump it and start again. In either case, you need to read the google guidelines at the links they provided to you. Then you may work out the deficiencies you currently have. Unfortunately, the google guidelines are quite vague and not exactly what I would call useful or readable, which is what they keep telling us we have to do. So that means you may not work out what is wrong. This may seem like a radical idea, but if I were you, at the stage you are now, with am empty blog and such thin content, I would go back to school, and learn all the things you need to do to build a really useful blog, and then go and put what you've learned into practice. Or I would forget blogging and do something else. There is inexpensive training around, or if you have no money at all, you could go to read problogger or copyblogger - or both. I also recommend you don't ask for reconsideration until you have at least 10 useful posts. If you are a good writer and you learn the lessons you need, you should be able to do that in a week. If you are not a good writer, then you shouldn't be doing this anyway. Find something else to do. In any case, I recommend you get as far away from the "How To Earn Money Online" niche as you can. You are really the blind leading the blind - you should leave it to the people who really know what they are doing. Look around and find a real business that you can do, that you don't need to keep writing new content for. Resell domains, or go to flippa and buy an existing website business that is already running, because (and I really don't mean to be mean to you)  I believe you really don't know anything about blogging, so to try to teach other people how to do it is really a bad idea - for you and for anyone who decided to follow you. Don't feel too bad about this, because when I first started (a long time ago), I thought I wanted to help other people do stuff like this,because I had a technical background and I could teach, but that niche is just a bad place to be and after I realized that, I got away from it. If you had "a brand" I wouldn't have said this, but abcdblogger isn't a brand. Listen to what other people here tell you - they may have a solution for you. I am just one voice, and that is my advice to you. Best Wishes with whatever you decide to do.

Thank you. will have a read now. Many thanks for your help

I'm just cynical enough to suspect this may be a byproduct of Google Webmaster Tools recent inbound link meltdown. Huge numbers of GWT users are reporting that their inbound link reports have basically lost most of their links. What if, in dealing with the problem, Google has gone back to an older version of the links database, which might recover more of the recent links, but also pull back a whack of  those links it already discounted? This is pure speculation on my part, but there's been so much volatility on Google's link reporting recently that I can't say I trust the data as far as I can toss it at the moment. Have you tired a similar comparison to the data shown in Bing Webmaster Tools? I'm sure I read of others encountering what you're talking about recently. Will see if I can find the references in case they found anything. Paul

Regarding query parameters, if you put in a 301 redirect for the main URL, the same URL with query parameters will be redirected as well. So if mysite.com/foo is redirected to mysite.com/bar, then mysite.com/foo?baz=qux will also redirect to mysite.com/bar?baz=qux automatically. As for images, I would avoid redirecting them as that can slow down their load times. Just change all the links to those images in the code to the new URLs.

I would make it absolute. You can code it to dynamically insert the base URL, then if it's on dev it will populate the dev URL, when it goes live it populates the production base URL.

Hi thank you for this. Yes i do need guidance. that is without a doubt.

Hey Paddy! Thanks for the reply...totally agree w/ 95% of it. Def don't want to take them away/out of the purchase funnel, it's simply to give them pointers/info/help them have fun w/ their purchase with fun, related content. In terms of links landing on the page and seeing the content, it'd just be an anchored link (to that section), which would put the content right in front of them. I was concerned with load times if the articles expand out in their entirety + videos (think make-up tutorials) + user submitted image gallery. And also how to structure the URLs if all of the content couldnt live on the category pages, to flow any link juice into the category page. thanks again for the feedback! te

Well, text on a page is going to be readable by Google unless you hide it in some way. You can check by having a look at the Lynx text viewer: http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/lynx/lynx_viewer.php

Matt Cutts answered that on a YouTube video a couple of years back at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qigo05nAqKw. I've copied the transcript of his answer below. In general, we don't promise that site colon queries will rank in the exact same order that other pages would rank in. So we do use a few different factors. We do use some version, roughly, of page rank, but it's not exactly in page rank order. We also look a little bit at, for example, maybe how short the URL is, and those tend to be URLs at the root page or one directory down, and those tend to be the pages that would attract the most links anyway. So it's kind of a combination to sort of trying to surface the pages that we think are useful, either according to page rank, or interesting in terms of being relatively short, so it's something that's pretty important or pretty close to your root page. But I wouldn't necessarily say that, and it's not the case, that it's strictly in page rank order or anything like that, at least the last time that I checked. So it's a relatively good proxy of the pages that might be kind of interesting, but I wouldn't treat it as a perfect list. You can always go through your server logs and figure out which pages are driving the most traffic, and sometimes those are going to be deep URLs, for example, that might get a very specific link or that rank for some other reason.

Expandable and collapible DIV's are just fine for SEO. They do a great job of accomplishing great design without compromsing content for SEO. Yes, Google can crawl that content just fine. Here's a link to a great webinar that specifically addresses some great Pro-Tips regarding how best to use these: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/designing-for-seo Hope that helps! Dana

Hi jason360, Rewrite the duplicated Title and make sure that both pages got unique content and description too Here is good discussion http://www.seomoz.org/q/avoiding-duplicate-page-title-and-duplicate-page-content-best-practices , it may give you some ideas Rgds Dmitriy