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Mmm... yeah hard to guess without looking at the site then, on my own experience / research, these are some of the issues I found in many of the sites affected by Panda: •Intrusive advertising, excessive use of Adsense, sites created only for Adsense or to solely promote a product•High amounts of duplicate content / scraped content•Bad user interface / “ugly” design•Usage data - low click-through-rate, low time-on-site, 100% bounce rate•Content analysis -  not usable/readable/easily-consumable content•Excessive internal linking to one or two pages only And I don't mean your site to be spammy, but some cases, like news sites with advertising, sometimes they get articles out with just a couple paragraphs of content, so that single page becomes more advertising than content. Consider posting your site, it would be nice to take a look and there is also the last reason: your site is innocent and just got hit by mistake, it happens.

Thank you for your great answer.

This still isn't Yahoo/Bing vs. Google but at least it's some factors that matter more to Bing, which can then be compared to how they affect rankings in Google. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/bing-rankings-cheat-sheet/29847/

Do you think comments are a ranking factor because of the keyword usage or because search engines can check comment count, for instance? How a search engine can determine who comment if it's a local comment system? What about facebook comments?

I've begun using this tool to compare pages for duplication. On the page they say 80%+ is duplicate, but I would be far more conservative. http://www.wordsfinder.com/tool_duplicate_content_checker.php

Actaually TYPO3 is very simple if you set it up correctly. Aslo there are some really good SEO modules for TYPO3 like http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/tq_seo/current/

Hi danfk, Daniel's response is exactly right (thanks Daniel!).  We don't offer that feature at this time, but I'll definitely pass your request on the team to see if it's something we can add down the line. Also, did you know we have a feature request forum? It's a great place to share your ideas. Other people can vote on them and it will help us determine priorities. You should check it out: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums Please let me know if you have any questions!

You have two choices. Honor your design sense and drop the transcript. Honor your SEO sense and include it. The most dedicated designers know about SEO and figure out a way to honor both design and SEO.  They are the ones who succeed and make a lot of money. Figure out how to do both or be satisfied with failure or fractional success. ..... but don't hide the text from visitors.  That will get your site killed in the search engines. =========================== FYI.... the transcript is very useful.  Lots of people prefer to read rather than listen.  And lots of people who listen will search the transcript to read and reread the exact words for the most important part of the video.  Lots of people print. Don't assume that you understand the visitor. You probably don't - at least that is my experience.

Thank you both, much appreciated.  Their rankings have suffered in the last two weeks and this coincides with their developers creating all this duplicate content - let's see if this fixes that issue! Thanks again.

Sure, if you have the relevant data at hand I can get my team to visualize it.

Thanks for your reply.. not hit during on the specific panda dates lots of duplicate page titles Google Webmaster Reports no major problems After correction it was hit after panda update or during it. I have, after the hit, did a lot of 302 redirection to newer URLs and title rewriting in a way to make titles and URLs as unique as possible. Google Webmaster was reporting a LOT of HTML suggestions before my action and is currently reporting zero HTML suggestions but a few crawling errors that was solved also a lot of time ago. _You state that you have lots of duplicate URLs yet you claim this is not the problem yet I would beg to differ. If there are duplicate URLs is there other weak or duplicate content? _ Problem is, the site is sports related. Contents are previews of fixtures of a lot of teams and in many occasions the fixtures are the same (obviously unique content for each preview and unique date as well, represented in the title and URL). Titles and URLs are both more than they should but this can't be helped because of the fix I did to make them more unique! Secondly, I have a client in the same industry and he is #1 in this industry. The same off-site promotions methods is used for both sites (don't get confused and assumed interlinking, etc..). The time my site took a hit his site performed more than the normal and he had big increase in rankings and traffic. It will be wise to mention that when speaking of contents, although the two sites has the same high quality contents, but my site consists of contents that is shorter (perhaps this makes google thinks this contents is shallow?). More importantly, the change I did to make titles and URLs more unique I never did to his site (I run both!) so in reality his site has a major problem of duplicated titles, yet performing very well, although Google Webmasters Tools is reporting a small amount of HTML suggestions (duplicate title tags) but it seems to help them though. I know we can't rely on this tool because "it is broken" but it helps a lot on many occasions. Do you have product descriptions that are used on other sites or on multiple pages across the site? Do you have lots of content that is repeated on multiple pages across the site? No off-site duplicate contents or similarity or widgets descriptions or whatever. The way site is structured and using tags makes a decent amount of tags pages being duplicated with "snippets" of the games previews/contents. I thought about having all tags pages in robots.txt but never executed the idea, and believe it or not on many occasions along the years I have seen googlebots not respecting robots.txt at all. I never thought of removing them manually using Google Webmasters Tools because in my opinion it is very risky and not required! **The kind of loss of traffic and ranking whilst still maintaining visibility for brand queries smacks of one of the more aggressive duplicate content filters that I have seen at least two cases of recently. These tend to kick in once the site has been crawled so do not stick to any specific date and the result is that you are buried for popular search terms but can still rank for terms with no competition and brand related queries. ** If I combined the site name/brand into a targeted keyword, the site is still ranking but if I did the same combinations with long tails (main landing pages/games previews) there is no result, and the latter is what ensures me there is some penalty or devaluation of contents (short contents=shallow contents?!). This could be remedied by the following measures: canonical urls for any internal page duplication **remove thin or weak content pages from the site (delete or noindex) ** remove or replace any content that is not unique to your site alone (generic product descriptions etc) identify any other sites that have stolen your content and request that it is removed & follow that up with DMCA request for any sites that will not play ball All of these measures has been considered already. For an example searching a snippet of contents return site homepage or other areas of the sites except for the intended ones, that is landing pages. **Happy to take another look if you can supply a URL. ** I have forwarded the URL to your inbox. Many thanks for the in-depth analysis, it at least makes me thinks of more issues to investigate. Regards, Hossam

I can not understand the difficulty of the web designer. Also do not understand why he speaks in the DNS migration if there are two different domains. Well, what he has to do is an exact copy of the site for the new domain in a new host plan. After the copy being hosted in the new domain, it does a 301 redirecting the old domain to new. So all pages will redirect to the new, including the intern will be right and you will not lose rankings.

What I find strange is the keyword disappear for a day or two and then come back, often. Normal would not be lose her position and then win or vice versa?