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Does anyone know if the new google ove optimisation penalties would be actioned for similar post titles? We have a back catalouge of our magazines online and each title is very simliar ie magazine name - issue number - month.

These have been flagged up by the SEO Moz pro service as being duplicate content but although each post is laid out the same each has different content with int it.

the titles however are all very simliar - is this a bad idea and also if so what would be a better way of grouping the posts so that the titles are different enough - would the main subject of each magazine included be enough?

Thanks

Hi Matthew, these are good tips but what if you have a news site with a load of different content that has been hit? You can't make sure that words don't come up more than a couple of times in titles or you would end up not writing about things. Any ideas there as we seem to be being hit with the penalty stick also.

We haven't done link building full stop and only have a few hundred links to us that are organic

I agree with your point about the aim of websites. Google penalising low text when a lot of sites are there and enjoyed by people because they are image heavy - they don't want a load of text. Or news sites, they may just want short snappy news in one place they like going to but a lot of small news sites (like my own although we have a lot of comment also) seem to be being hit.

ok thanks adam

Thank you for coming back to me Ben - I am looking for any possible thing that might be penalising us and in the account bit here it says that that is something that might make it happen.

There is also a site that has 4,000 backlinks to us that is down and I don't know what it is or why its linking to so much of our content - do you think this might have something to do with it?

(we saw a dramatic drop in traffic from the recent penguin and panda updates)

After running a site analysis on here it has come up and said that I have a lot o pages with too many on page links and that this might be why the site is being penalized.

Thing is I am not sure how to remedy this as one page that says it has 116 links is this one :

http://www.whosjack.org/10-films-with-some-crazy-bitches/

Although there is only one link in the body

Then again our home page has 165

http://www.whosjack.org

which again it says is too many.

The thing is is that surely it doesn't count on links all over the page as other wise every news homepage would be penalised?

For example what would happen here on this home page? : http://www.dazeddigital.com/

Can anyone help me see what I am missing? Are there possible hidden links anywhere I should be looking for etc?

Thanks