Does anyone use Ning (Custom social site)?

[danlok]

We just got a custom Ning site developed and the second we moved it to our domain, we lost almost all of our rankings in Google.

So, we sign up for a SEOMoz Pro account and within a week we see that we have over 6,000 errors and warnings on our site. Duplicate content, duplicate page titles and pages with too many links.

Is anyone using Ning and successfully maintaining 1st page rankings in Google?

Seems to me that we need hundreds of fixes and modifications in the code of our site to fix all of these errors and get Google to take our penalizations off.

[danatanseo]

I do know of a Ning site that is related to a larger e-commerce site which successfullt ranks #1 for many competitive terms. However, their Ning site is still hosted and is a subdomain of Ning.

[qiherbs.com]

Dana, mind sharing what site you are referring to?

[danatanseo]

Yes, I will share. Please know that I do not subscribe to or agree with the content that is there (it is okay to open at work or around kids - it's not anything adult oriented). It's just got a lot of angry political language tied with ultra-conservative Christian views (if you are a FOX News fan you might really like it). I am also not recommending their design (on either site).

http://kingdominsight.ning.com  is a subsidiary of http://www.kingdom.com (this is the e-commerce site).

Kingdom.com, despite horrible design and black hat SEO continues to rank very well for some highly competitive terms.- They have had their Ning site for about 5 years.