I think I got hit by the latest Panda update
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Hi everyone,
I think one of my sites got hit with Panda. On Sept 18th the site dipped to "not in top 50" for almost all keywords. I checked GWT for the manual action email but my inbox is empty!!!!!!!!!! The lesser of 2 evils I guess. They had major server issues that week as well so it is hard to identify what caused the site to dip.
My client has original content on the website but almost all content on the blog is copied. Do you recommend me deleting the non original content?
Can the problem be elsewhere?
Thanks
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Yes, you should fix the duplicate/copied content on the blog. Some options:
- Remove the pages
- noindex the pages
- Rewrite the content
- Add canonical link to original articles
There could be other things affecting the penalty but fixing this seems like a good place to start.
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Hi Oleg
I was planning on doing this. The weird thing is that Copyscape does not say I have "copied" content yet my client has admitted to copying content for years for his blog. Can you recommend another tool besides Copyscape?
Thanks
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If client was copying content from other websites and the owner of that content submitted a removal request to google then client's pages with the complained-about content will fall out of Google. If lots of people are complaining the entire site could fall out of Google.
To see if this might have occurred, do a google search for a query where the client originally ranked on the first page of the SERPs, click into the SERPs, scroll to the bottom and you might see wording like this....
In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.
I submit lots of removal requests and Google yanks those pages out of the SERPs pretty quick.
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Just copy a couple sentences and paste them in Google surrounded by quotes. i.e. "content"
