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    • sbetzen
      sbetzen last edited by

      I have a site on volusion, www.ecowindchimes.com. Until recently I was doing fairly well (top 3 for keyword(s) for 6 years) in serps. I was hit by the an update around july of last year, and did a full page redesign in november. My site has been losing ranking for its main keyword "wind chimes".
      One change I noticed is that no-follow was removed (when the designers added a lightbox popup for the sound) from the many many links I have for my sound files of the wind chimes (I house them on a separate server to save bandwidth, which is expensive at volusion). The webaddress the sound-files are on doesn't even have a page... it is just there for the files. (there are ~100 files linked to on almost every page of the site where a product listing shows).

      Should I go through and no-follow all of these links again? Is that hurting me?
      I suspect it is, but it is a lot of work for nothing if that is not the problem.

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      • FedeEinhorn
        FedeEinhorn last edited by

        Those sounds are yours, therefore you don't need them to rank in SERPs as long as your Website ranks. Anyway, Google does not display "sound results" so I don't think following or nofollowing those links will do much difference, I don't think that is the problem why you could be loosing your rankings.

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        • sbetzen
          sbetzen @FedeEinhorn last edited by

          Will Google still treat them the same if they are on another domain... even on another server. Does Google know they are mine if they are on different domain/server? I was concerned that I will sending out link juice on every page of my site with these.

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          • FedeEinhorn
            FedeEinhorn @sbetzen last edited by

            Are you using a CNAME of your main domain for that server? Like sounds.example.com? You should, if you aren't. I don't think pagerank can flow to a sound file. But I am not entirely sure, tho.

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