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Blog posts not getting indexed and being outranked by scrapper sites.
Thanks for the quick response Dana! They are sourcing us but at the moment they're constantly showing up instead of our site. There's no reason they should outrank us, but we figured they couldn't really be hurting us since they are linking to us. It's weird that the site is able to scrape content and still get good indexes... maybe Google just hasn't picked up on it yet. We are hoping that we don't have to worry about scrapers once our blog posts start getting indexed like they used to. I think we'll send them a friendly email like you suggested.
Behavior & Demographics | | gfreeman230 -
Best way to remove worthless/thin content?
As Alan said, if the pages don't have any inbound links then you're not going to lose any link equity by removing them. If the pages in question are not getting direct traffic or search traffic and don't have any links then I'd just delete them. Otherwise a 301 redirect to the most relevant content is the best way to go. Do a check for any internal links to these pages too. Your own links should be easy to fix. Remove them or point them at the better relevant content. It might also be worth reviewing your 404 page. This can often be forgotten, but it can do a lot of the hard work guiding visitors to the content they're looking for.
Behavior & Demographics | | DougRoberts0 -
How long til meta robots noindex takes effect?
Thanks for the responses! The pages just got noindexed today... it took almost exactly a week.
Behavior & Demographics | | gfreeman230