Solving a thin content problem? Please help!

[2bloggers]

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[vmialik]

Hi 2bloggers,

You mentioned, "I know my readers appreciate my content and it is appropriate for my genre but I am thinking Google knocked me because the majority of my posts are short." Generally if your readers appreciate your content they will share, like, tweet, and comment to them.  If this is the case Google will not care if its thin content or long content.  All it cares about is great content, and the way Google knows it is great content is the shares, likes, tweets, comments, traffic to your site.  These metrics help convince Google that your site is awesome.

Having said, longer great content, is better than shorter great content.  You can also try inviting guest posters to write long awesome content to help with some of your writing.  They will appreciate you letting them write for you assuming you have an active reader base.

[2bloggers]

Thanks Vadim. I suppose because my site is new, Google isn't really seeing many tweets, comments etc. A lot of my blog posts ranking in the top 3 had awesome backlinks from high DA sites. On July 21, it seems like Google decided those backlinks were worthless. I don't really understand why my site tanked as I am continuing to get backlinks and am getting more active on Facebook and Pinterest. I am on Google Plus but no one else is. I am headed to Twitter next.

I am going to continue doing everything I know will work but I am still looking for some kind of reason and solution to why Google dropped my rankings so severely and how to improve things. Backlinks are doing nothing. I just don't even know what the point of getting them is right now!

I just don't know what to do but my family really needs this income.

[vmialik]

How new is your site? Because regardless of how new, in a few days to month max your tweets comments shows get indexed.  Rankings tanking could be something related to your site, but also the industry something tells me that I was reading some Google updates targeting coupon sites, possible this could have an effect.  This goes to say, I know this might be crazy to think but Google is not all in all, if people are liking your site, sharing via social networks, and you also have other networks to get your word out so definitely in this time continue to examine your sites for any possibilities for de-ranking like are are doing with short-content, and also focus on other means on reaching out via twitter if done effectively is very powerful.  This is a diversification technique where you are diversifying your eggs out side of just the google basket, how this helps.

[2bloggers]

Thanks. I am trying to work on my social networking and be less dependent on google. It is just frustrating that I was doing so well and then overnight it all fell apart. Is there really no tool or website or plugin that can give me some insight into the possible problems with my site?

I do not nofollow affiliate links. I am not sure if the Google Panda update target that. Do you know how I can easily nofollow my affiliate links? I certainly cannot do them one by one.

[vmialik]

if you happen to be using wordpress there are plugins such as: http://wordpress.org/plugins/nofollow-for-external-link/

[2bloggers]

The problem with that is it nofollows ALL external links and I don't want that.

[vmialik]

It is just one of the plugins you can research and possibly find more that will have filters etc. Yoast's SEO plugin has powerful features and you can follow no follow by pages, and you might have some other way of doing no-follow maybe based on categories