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I'm always dubious of duplicate site content, automatically generated content is a bad idea. Google will pick up on that like shot.
I would guess it's a combination of both duplicate content and automatically generated content.
I have yet to see an actual penalty for duplicated on site content, although I guess it could happen. But what I have seen is that Google will be less favourable to your site if there is a substantial amount of duplicate content.
Seems to be getting more and more common, I've especially noticed it over the past few weeks.
Remember that browser plug-ins are still using cookies and localisation information based on previous searches and data.
I had it happened to me last week with a keyword, the first search came up at position 33 I clicked on it to check the link, with a second search a few hours later it came up at position 4, quite a big jump!
I guess that aircon installation is very localised compared to say an e-commerce store, so I guess Google will be working very hard to provide the best result for the customer weighing locally relevant results heavier.
Your safest thing to do is to use a good online system and make sure you set it for the relevant country. Clearing the cache each time prior to doing a search should also help.
Couple of ideas spring to mind
Example of robots.txt file...
Disallow: /the-link/you-dont/want-to-show.html
Disallow: /the-link/you-dont/want-to-show2.html
Don't include the domain just the link to the page, Plenty of tutorials out there worthwhile having a look at http://www.robotstxt.org
Yes, that been the case definitely sounds like that was the issue. You could potentially speed up the process by doing a Fitch and Submit from Google Search Console.
Would be interested to know if fixing the problem gets back your rankings, if you think about it, let me know.
All the best
Richard
To me it sounds like you have a bigger problem, most likely a penalty. Quality of content does make a difference, but I very much doubt it would make that much. If it is that it's an easy fix anyway although it may take a bit of time to re-gain ground.
If you have a completely broken page, then yes, that could be why. But if it is just an image or two not working it would only have a small impact.
I presume you are using a proper tool to lock keyword position? I have seen that sort of variant when checking manually.
Yes, definitely duplicate content could be your problem. I would also recommend you do a back link audit.
Also the main page content looks quite sparse (sorry, I know it property took you ages. But it's worthwhile beefing it out, if you've got a few minutes spare).
Strongly recommend you do a full site audit from the ground up and include both on and off page.
If I've understood you correctly, you mean how to rate yourself over competitors?
I would make a small key list of main competitors for your search terms (chances are they will only be a handful anyway) and monitor where your keywords rank compared to theirs.
There is all sorts of site metrics you can use main one being Domain Authority, this is very useful to have a broad overview of what's going on. Just remember that metrics isn't everything, relevancy plays a huge role nowadays.
It could be that the search engine cache the content from when it was there. You could submit the page for reindexing and see what happens but you do risk losing your page position.
The honest answer is that I don't know, but it is definitely in the search engine interest to look at JavaScript content, it is used widely now for content and is sometimes used to trick the search bots. I wouldn't be at all surprised if your site is fast enough loading the JavaScript that search engines would potentially look at it.
However, it would definitely be better if it was hard code on the page.
Interested to know if anyone has used or using Fatjoe content/blogger outreach.
Seems fairly expensive, but reasonable quality.
Reviews or comments welcome.
Thanks
Richard
Keep it as precise as possible, whether you disavow the whole domain or not is your choice, no problem doing that if you need to.
However if you are sure there is literally only one link on the site it is probably advisable to only disavow the specific URL.
The best of my knowledge there is no problem with disavowing a full domain.
As ThompsonPaul as said if you disavow the whole domain it will affect the entire domain including subdomains so treat with respect.
The other thing is be sure the link is doing you harm before you remove it, I have seen are even so-called spam links knock a site by a few points if it's disavowed.
Google is very clever at working out what is what, the URL is only 1 of at least 200 factors, I wouldn't be overly worried just get it about right.
To the best of my knowledge the URL factor works on a sliding scale i.e. the nearer the beginning a word in a URL the more weight it tends to have over other words in the URL.
Having said all that I would guess even if you got it exactly right and assuming Google only uses 200 ranking factors you would have completed 0.5% of the ranking structure. Sorry if that makes sense??
But it's definitely worth making sure you get it as right as possible, consider the following...
And finally remember that Google bot is trying to work as much like a human as possible, so if it looks commonsense to human then the chances are that Google sooner or later will adopt the same principle.
All the best and good luck
I'm very doubtful hosting the video off-site would have much effect on the site speed especially YouTube, Personally I use Wistia mainly due to the level of analytics that they provide. The only time this may be an issue if you have a quantity on a single page, in that case I would try and split it onto several different pages by means of categories or something.
To me it sounds like there may be a programming problem.
The other thing is it may not be the videos that is slowing the site down.
Just a few thoughts don't know if it helps.
Is the tools out there that can check our frequently website is updated with new content products?
I'm trying to do an SEO analysis between two websites.
Thanks in advance
Richard
Have you looked at www.monitorbacklinks.com, good tool.
Definitely a risky tactic.
What I would do is to:-
You may also find some of those keywords not necessary or too low search volume/competitive to worry about. As you said Google semantic search is very intelligent, It would treat Top PR Firms & Best PR Firms as basically the same slightly favouring one or the other for an exact match. There again if you have high enough authority that will be outweighed.
Hello Andy,
I personally don't like the idea, but yes, picking the article and publishing it exactly.
Would it be an alleviate it to credit the original source?
Thanks
Richard
What is the thoughts on republishing content that has already been published on a big new site onto company blog?
My gut feeling is at best Google will ignore at worst a penalty could be round the corner?
All thoughts welcome.
ThanksRichard
Interested to know if anyone has heard of Linklicious?
They apparently get your links noticed by Google.
Not sure if it's genuine or what to think about the idea.
Personally sounds a bit dodgy to me, any thoughts?
I have heard rumours that AddThis isn't good for SEO is that correct?
Just thinking about adding it to my site.