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Thanks Devanur.

But this leaves me clueless now what should i do :{

i need to undo these penalities i am suffering from.

Hello,

I have been in contact with a smo to optimize my site for search engines and social media sites. my site was doing great from last 4 years.

but suddenly it started dropping in ranking. then i came and joined seomoz pro to find a way out.

i was suggested to categories content in form of subdomains ... well that put a huge toll on my rankings.. thanks to suggestions here i have 301 them to sub directories.

Now another huge question arises. i found out that my smo guy was taking artificial votes or whatever youc all them on twitter, facebook and g+ ...twitter and facebook's are understandable but i am getting to think that these votings on g+ might have affected my site's ranking ?

here is a sample url http://www.designzzz.com/cutest-puppy-pictures-pet-photography-tips/

if you scroll below you will see 56 google plus 1s...

now the big question is, i have been creating genuince content. but nowt hat i am stuck in this situation, how to get out of it ?

changing urls will be bad for readers.. will a 301 will fix it ?  or any other method.

thanks in advance

All right, thanks Keri :}

but the problem in my case is that for example tags like font, brushes. doesn't have there seperate categories. like font related posting goes under freebies categ and brushes related posts goes under photoshop category . Photoshop categories lots of types of postings like tutorials, downloads, brushes, actions etc.

What i am concerned right now is that if i noindex tag pages. how will they affect my pr and rnakings of these pages?

Or if i nofollow them in meta tag, how will that effect ?

Hello, I am using wordpress and on some of my top tag urls e.g : http://www.designzzz.com/tag/brushes/ there is an avg page rank of 4.

I was reading somewhere that my huge jump in not selected count in index status in GWT is becuase of tags/categories urls.

So i added disallow in my robots.txt for the url /tag

What sort of effect will it have on my tag urls rankings or PR ?

Thank you so much,

ofcourse i will do keep you updated :}

cheers

Hello Devanur,

Thank you so much for the insight and pointing me to the right direction.

i did it like you said. please take a look and tell me if everything is fine.

http://coding.designzzz.com is now pointing to http://www.designzzz.com/coding/

http://wordpress.designzzz.com is now pointing to http://www.designzzz.com/wordpress/ ofcourse with 301s .

same goes for all other subdomains :}

I am curious how much time will it take for my traffic to start getting better?

thanks again

Hey Egol, now that you mentioned this about content, changing the content of the focused pages will help or its just useless, what do you think ?

I am working on changing content of few pages which stopped ranking, what i mean is i am just re-writing the text in the articles.

will it be re ranked with the new content?

hello, You can put a 301 redirect on one of the link to the other (which u prefer to be used), that wil fix this issue.

Hi, but will this update the statistics in my pro tools craw diagnostics ? as i see this one will send me a csv in email

Hello,

for my campaign designzzz.com the crawl ran today, and next crawl is after a week. but unfortunately when the crawling was in progress i had a little issue on site which added lots of 500 server errors and other notifications.

So is it possible to re-run the crawl ?

If you are using Yoast for seo, there is an option which redirects the attachment pages back to the original post page :}

if not , then you can use your robots.txt to block off these attachment pages :}

hope that helps

Hello,

Thank you so much for the suggestion. as i have wordpress installations in subdomains i am not sure it will be easy to do teh redirect because of paths issues. but yeah i am gona try that.

Some people said that google now treats subdomains as subdirectories so that might not be the issue so i am confused.

About moving content from domain to subdomain , nop not really. subdomains got its own original content.

thanks again.

cheers

Hello Everyone,

I have been running www.designzzz.com from lats 3 years now. and was doing extremely good with a PR 6 and 800K+ traffic monthly, but 6 months ago it started falling and falling badly.. now i am down to 350K total impressions :{ per month.

I have been blaming penguin for this and been talking to google reps continously over it. they assured me that my site is not under any type of manual spam etc.

Then i begin think and i realized taht was exactly the time when i launched a few subdomains as sub parts of my site like coding.designzzz.com , wordpress.designzzz.com , photograph.designzzz.com , shop.designzzz.com in the making...

now is the part that i can't undo these subdomains.. what should i do ?

my search traffic is almost killed.

I seriously need insight on this guys :

thanks in advance!

Ayaz

That's funny coz twitter:description and OG:Description are two different metas, not the same as description

Hiz,

if i click on the mozbar button in chrome it shows me in red that this page contains multiple meta description tags. please see screenshot attached.

while if i vew source of my pages it only contains 1 meta description. can anyone check and verify please.

cheers

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Hello Zora, yes i have around 11k pages.

About search, wow how did i missed it. on other thought that page consists of google search. i am gona change that and see how it will turn out.

thanks alot :}

Hello,

After the penguin update my site slowly suffered loss in traffic. and now from daily 15K-18K its droped to 8K. (6K in weekends)

I have been trying to find out what the reasons are but i havent got any good luck yet been few months now.

I noticed this change in the GWT tho :

Not selected in index status significantly risen up. please see attached image.

My site is Designzzz

i am continously fixing errors and problems shown in the seomoz pro tools.

If you guys can take few mins to evaluate what could be the reason for such drop i will be thankful :}

cheers

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Hiz, you can use google disavow tool for this : https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main?pli=1 as stated by matthew.

you can get a general idea here : http://chlooe.com/seo-review/autoglassrescue.com