Feed sites replacing my pages in SERP
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I have a problem!
Sites like:
http://lynk.ly/
http://www.yousaytoo.com/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://friendfeed.com/Are replacing my posts even if i am searching for an exact title of the post.
For example this search query:
Christmas Party Style Sets With Black Cocktail DressesOriginal post here:
http://richclubgirl.com/christmas-party/christmas-party-style-sets-with-black-cocktail-dresses/How do i fight this issue? I want to stay on these sites somehow!
Thanks in advance!
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You still have these links out there. The pages linking to you are still indexed. And they seem to be cloaking for Google...
http://thesavedquarter.com/2011/03/franklin-goose-you-suck/
The URL above links to you with the text "propecia 5mg" and links to this URL:
http://richclubgirl.com/tag/prada/When you or I visit that URL (thesavedquarter...) we will probably see a blank, white page. However, when Google visits the page they see content, including that spammy link to your site. You can tell this in two ways:
1. Visit Google's cache of the page, which is here:
2. Use a tool that allows you to switch your user agent (Webmaster Tools allows you to do this too, but I use a Firefox plugin) so that you can browse the web as Googlebot, in which case you will see what Google sees on that page, which is the content and a spammy link to your website in the right sidebar.
The reason this would be affected newer pages, as someone else mentioned in the other thread, is because your newer posts do not have the authority / trust of the older ones and are thus more easily affected by filters and penalties from Google.
Follow Oleg's advice regarding the backlink profile cleanup and make sure your site is very secure. As I mentioned in the other thread, use the disavow link tool, report the cloaking pages to Google as spam, and as they come out of the index hopefully the situation will improve. A reinclusion request after the links are cleaned up may help, but my guess is this is algorithmic so they may tell you that you don't have a penalty. In either case, cleaning up those links from the other sites should help. Good luck!
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To add to what Oleg has advised...
Fat pinging your articles will help you:
http://www.stealthkca.com/claim-ownership-of-your-content-with-fat-pings
And, here is a very informative post about how to leverage your original content:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/28/content-creators-benefit-from-new-seo/
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Now i see them, thanks! Will try to use this tool! Thanks for an advice!
Traffic from Google dropped in Apr 2012 and was decreasing all the time till Nov 2012.
In total it decreased 9 times. In November is started to grow. In October i moved to a new hosting with old domain to get rid of pharma hack! Pharma hack dissappeared. Links are present somewhere! Will try the tool!GWT is set up, XML sitemap submitted, all posts indexed to this date.
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New pages don't have any authority right away so the penalization is more noticeable, while your old articles have links/are more established and rank better than new ones in general (my guess).
I used OSE as well - http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors.html?page=1&site=richclubgirl.com&sort=domains_linking_page&source=phrase&target=domain
Your best bet is to use the disavow tool.
Have you ever experienced a traffic drop? If yes, see what day that happened and if there were updates around that time.
Do you have GWT set up? Sitemaps submitted/updated with latest posts?
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Thank You for Your reply, Oleg! But all posts older 2012 are performing well in Google! I don't see sense. Is it possible to penalize newest posts only?
There was pharma hack before, but i've moved to a new domain. Links are left somewhere! How can i get rid of them?
I looked in Open Site Explorer but didn't find any links with viagra anchors! Where did you look?
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Usually you should outrank those site but I think you might have been penalized / hit with negative SEO =/
I clicked around your backlink profile and it looks like there are a lot of links with pharma anchor text (viagra in the philippines, tramadol 50mg, etc). I would recommend a backlink audit and removal of all of those negative links and see if that bounces you back up!
Cheers!
Oleg
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