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cheers for that

so does that mean that all i have to do is to add an author name and do nothing else for it to work. do you also know how long it takes for a picture to appear in the search engines as i have not seen anything as yet

hi sri, what is the reason why you think i should use text only ads

thanks for this, we have tried re-writing the articles but we would be spending our life time doing this. every week we are spending hours contacting people over copyright theft. it is getting beyond a joke.

cheers for that. it is strange that i am looking for links on the home page which there are around 140 or so and then google is pulling links from the different sections and showing them on the home page. will see if i can find the solution to try and reduce the link many thanks for all your help

Hi Tim, Glad it helped. It might be worth asking your host what kind of features they have for preventing flooding attacks, there are various ways of addressing them on the server side that most hosts will have enabled in one way or another. Unless you have a specific issue with these kind of attacks, it seems to me that this part of the module is causing more harm than good as it is now.

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OK, now I understand, I think it is just a pagination issue. Read the post below http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html Hope it helps Good luck

Thanks for this. we did fill out a form with google but heard nothing back. at one time we had 30 sites with the same content as ours, when we contacted one of these sites and threatened them with legal action, they were very worried and a solicitor contacted us and told us that they were given the content by a third party. I cannot go to much into this for obvious reasons but the company in question is a franchise company who feel scared about the service so they use underhand tactics. What we need to do is to increase the brand exposure on google so the brand is always displaying in the top of google and people do not see these silly posts or bad articles.

thank you for the advice

cheers for this, i have contacted the company to see what they say about this issue and hopefully it will be resolved.

This looks to be an IP problem obviously. But this could also be a faulty configuration in your DNS settings. I believe there is an setting for DNS managers where you set the name of the MAIL IP or URL. I suggest contacting the host about the DNS settings or if you're using a type of DNS manager. I've seen this in CloudFlare where you have to set your configurations correctly prior to sending emails.

thanks. I will start to sort it all now and see what happens.

thank you for this. I was looking at sites such as citylocal.co.uk and thebest.co.uk who do this for each city. They are a totally different type of website to our health site but they have a subdomain for each city, so i thought this maybe a way to go but obviously with what you have said, it is not the best approach to take. many thanks

hi, yes the urls seem to be fine.

The wordpress hacking was almost surely due to having outdated version of WP, or having a vulnerable plugin installed.  There are a few helpful plugins you can use to secure your WP site, plugins like (http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/). also a couple things to note, you should also take basic measures to project the site by changing the default table prefixes of your DB from _wp,  create a new admin user and delete the default "admin" accoun & limit access to your wp-admin section in your .htaccess file.... these security plugins will give you a whole checklist of items to "secure".

that is great news thank you

cheers for that.

Hi Tim, The first step is to determine if your content has been reproduced without your permission. The easiest way to do this is to simply search Google. Take a unique part of your content - a sentence of two, and wrap it in quotes for an exact match search, like this: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q="No+one+wants+to+work+with+someone+who’s+boring%2C+or+messy%2C+or+an+a-hole."&pws=0&gl=us You can also limit your search to a particular site with the site: operator. Dr. Pete has a good article about it. Or you can use one of several tools like Copyscape. To be honest, sites steal and scrape content all the time. Most of the time it isn't a problem, but occassionaly you may find folks misrepresenting you, profiting from your content or hurting your rankings. If this is the case, you should work to have the content removed. This can range from a simple letter to the webmaster to an official DMCA takedown notice, although it rarely comes to this. Hope this helps! Best of luck.

thanks for that