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Yep, we have thought about that but we don't think that is an issue as there weren't any major updates around the time it should have been starting to recover.

Hi,

One of our sites got hit with malware in November.

We cleaned it up and sent a reconsideration request and no malware warnings are in WMT anymore.

We still haven't seen an improvement in rankings even though people say it can take up to 90days?

Organic traffic is down 40% and still dropping.

Any advice?

Thanks

But isn't there a risk over time of the site being 'flooded' with too many pages (of mixed quality as they are user generated)???

When running a classified site, what is best practice for what to do with expired ads?  Should they stay on the site with a sold stamp perhaps? Or should they be moved to an archive subdomain, with the original URL 301 redirecting to the new archive ad?

I'm kinda thinking the second option but I suppose the only issue with this is you would have to have a consistent flow of new ads on the site to prevent categories from getting too thin.

Thoughts on this and any other/better solutions would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

We're building a new website platform and are using Ajax as the method for allowing users to select from filters. We want to dynamically insert elements into the URL as the filters are selected so that search engines will index multiple combinations of filters. We're struggling to see how this is possible using symfony framework. We've used www.gizmodo.com as an example of how to achieve SEO and user-friendly URLs but this is only an example of achieving this for static content.

We would prefer to go down a route that didn't involve hashbangs if possible.

Does anyone have any experience using hashbangs and how it affected their site?

Any advice on the above would be gratefully received.

It seems Google's Panda update is targetting low quality sites with little unique content (I know there's more to it than that).  It makes sense that they may want to do this but what about classified sites.  They may use some scraped content as well as unique ads, and the ads may lack content as they rely on the users writing the ads.  However, they are helpful to the people that use classifieds.

Because of these factors, these sites are suffering with the release of the latest Panda update.

Any advice for classified sites and how they can combat the rankings drops???