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I have a plugin for wordpress for language translation. I will try to deactivate it, and see if ranking goes up at least a bit. If it does, it means the plugin and /en urls caused the duplicate issues, and maybe also a drop in rankings.. I will let you know the results, if you are interested

Thanks again to all for help!

You can use a tool called Panguin from Barracuda. Connected with your analytics, it shows your traffic decrease on a timeline where all algos updates (penguin, panda and various) may have affected your site. It also explains what changes happened and who spoke about these changes, when and where to find information. Hope this may help also

Eugenio

thanks jesse,

You now got me right Sorry if I was unclear.. yes, i will try monitoring all changes.. nothing happened by now only with keywords, so Im trying to slowly implement more optimization (starting from internal links and external forward links). I hope I will get somewhere with results, and I ll be more than happy to share with all you mozzers

Thanks again.

Eugenio

Hello,

Thanks everyone for replies.

Dave, I already choose a preferred domain

Chris, thanks for the useful tip. I think I already got penalized for this (eg I have 3 blog posts all with the keywords "website ranking" in the url, all for different seo strategies, and only one page is ranked for those keywords). I think i only could 301 redirect, but at the moment, I will leave it as it is, and be more careful in the future.

Tuzzel, thanks, your reply really helped also. I have seen in the Google guide you posted that I should use top domains for translations. This is not possible at the moment. Then you suggested to use canonical tags. Does it mean I should 301 redirect all translated pages to the original ones?

I don't think Antony says all the story.. It happens to me as well, going down and up in the serps, and socials are talking about my brand often.. Could it be due to the Google "dancing"? I belive it may be something related to this..

Hello,

My Moz analytics show over 50 duplicate titles. This because my website title is shown on each page (eg About us | Social Engagement, Contact us | Social Engagement, etc.)

Is this really an error to be fixed, that otherwise will impact rankings? Or can I leave it as it is? I don't mind having my website title on each page, but if its worth removing it due to duplicate issues impacting ranking, I will remove

In this case, does someone have any suggestion on how to do this? Which files should I modify? (Im using Wordpress CMS, and I dont see each page code)

Thanks in advance.
Regards,

Eugenio | Social Engagement (http://socialengagement.it)

Hello Jesse,

Thanks for your reply. Sorry if I was not clear. What I meant is that I am trying to do a test: on a not very optimized new url, where there s only explanation of the test, i would like to see if its possible to rank only (or almost only) with social signals (+1s likes tweets).

I asked if I am doing right or if the type of test I am trying to do is not done with the correct approach.

PS sorry I didnt mention before, url is http://socialengagement.it/seo-italia-test (sorry is in Italian, but with google translation its easy to understand the points)

You may want to try Barracuda Panguin Tool. You have to connect to your analytics account first, but it shows your traffic decrease and on a timeline all penguin, panda and various algo's changes made by Google, with full explanations for each change. WIth this tool you may be able to understand wich changes affected you most, and repair

Hello,

My question is: we all know that blogs or great content is the way to good backlinks. But rather than this, what other ways are to build quality links to a website?

I for example try researching competition backlinks (with opensiteexplorer), or find directories etc.

Is this the right way? I also try to produce great content, but I would have liked more technical SEO tricks for this

And one more thing: how long links are needed before they impact rankings?

Thanks if someone can help!

Eugenio

Hello,

I just created a page for researching the impact of social signals on Google ranking (in Italy). Page was not optimized (one internal backlink, no other external/internal links, keyword repeated 4 or 5 + h1 h2, no alt tags), and only social signals are being stimulated (through votes).

The domain is 2 months old and is already positioned for few relevant keywords, but from 2 page down.

My question is: am I doing right? Is this a good way to proceed? And if not, what I should do instead?

Thank you for an advice.

Eugenio

you may also want to try to use webmaster tools website settings to geolocalize your website