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1. Can anyone recommend a good SEO Submission Service? Or do you not recommend using them?

2. What do you think is a better way to build links? Directory listings or place ads on blog sites? Each post a blogger post would have the ad link.

Thoughts?

I thought there's no such thing as duplicate content on site penalty? We have products that have"sample" products. The sample product does have the sample content as it's parent product. But we have had this for years. Will message you. Thank you.

Ok so maybe not ask for "forgiveness" because I am not sure what we did to get penalized.

I believe our site is being penalized 1. most of our usual keywords are not ranked in their usual placements in the search results. 2. some of our keywords are listing the wrong pages as search results and 3. our search results are landing on pages 8 or 9 on Google (not 2 or 3 as before).

This is an ecommerce site. How do we figure out what trigger the penalty (if at all) and how do we fix it so that we can get our ranking back (is that even possible)?

Please advise - much help is needed!

We do have original content on each of the products. Just thinking this is more of external linking than anything else....

Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks Highland. Re:

1. Yes, the guide pages do have links to the product pages but looking at the stats, users go in, grab the info they need and leave. We have product images and links throughout the guides.

2. Each of our products do have good original long description.

3. This may be the solution - getting more links to the main product page.

Thanks for the input! Much appreciated!

My site sells products (+1000s) and we have a few pages about how-to's, tips, etc. But when you search for keywords that are relevant to the products, the guides show up as search results.

For example, if we search for "red widgets", the page for "how to make widgets" shows in the SERP and not the "red widgets" product page.

This doesn't make sense when most of the search results go to our guides and not to the product pages. How can I change this? Do I permanent remove these guides? Or rename the title, description? My guess is that other sites have linked to these guides so they are making our site more of a "guide" site as opposed to the products we sell.

Any advice/recommended would be appreciated.