Is this over optimization??
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I have blog website – packforcity.com, all articles were having almost same title tags (as need of the website) I only change the city name for example
What to Wear in Miami in February
What To Wear In Dubai In February
What To Wear In Budapest In February
What to Wear in Beijing in February
What to Wear in Los Angeles in January
What to Wear in Miami in January
What to Wear in Las Vegas in January
Is this over optimization??
Before December, My all keywords were ranked on the first page and my old articles still ranked, but my January and February articles (newly posted articles) were ranked No where in Google. Has my website hit by google?
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It could even be as simple as greater competition among sites that are relevant to the same search queries your pages are relevant to. Be sure to examine the top sites showing in the results for your target search queries and see what's working for them.
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Google still index my pages, but any new article I post will not appear in top results ( not in top 3 pages) and same case in bing also. But still my old pages were ranked on top. What other issue might be?
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I can't say that for sure. I only looked over your content and there may be other issues--or there may be no actual SERP issues at all, other than Google's just slow to index your pages. As I'm sure you're aware, there are actually a lot of other things to take into account when dealing with your seo.
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for explaining the issue in details.
Means I need to change the Style of the article, It is not good to use the same style. If I do so, Is my website is back in search engines.?
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Varun,
I wouldn't call it over optimization, but perhaps, your title tags combined with your content may be a cause. Even if it's not, heeding the following will be helpful to you in the long run.
Yes, it appears that each post is unique and maybe even somewhat "researched", but the combined vocabulary on all of your pages is very homogeneous. As you get more and more of content on your site that fits pretty much the same templated paragraph headings, the overall feel of the words in those paragraphs is that they're all the same, just in different order and different amounts. For the most part your pages contain the same weather, gender, clothing vocabulary. It's the kind of content I call "fluffy"--a lot of words but not really a lot of meaning.
To get a sense of what I mean, lift three or four sentences at random from three or four pages on your site and put them together and see if they form a paragraph of about the same quality as an average paragraph on your site. My feeling is that the more content like this you put on your site, the more it looks like "spun" content and that might be tripping a filter.
I would suggest that each page for each city also contain mention of 3-4 local landmarks, a few local boutique names, 2 or 3 local street names, and a couple of activities, events, the name of the primary mass transportation system, and/or personalities that make that city unique. Going to foursquare and selecting "outdoors" or "sites" as your "I'm searching for" criteria can help your writer with with a starting place for some of these things.
The more you incorporate this additional dimension into your copy, the more effective it will be at converting your clients and the less you'll have to worry about discounting its quality.
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I am not using the same content and only use exact keyword once in the title tag, description, H1 tag and in the article body. But Keywords on the website were same like What to wear in ....... Is this a problem. ??
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Hello,
I think you want to ask if it is Duplicate title/Content rather over-optimisation since you are mentioning "articles"?
Over-optimisation is when you have used your targeted keyword more than it should.
If what I suspect is the case, then it will come down to the content. if for example the content is the same and all you change is the location and you could probably deal with some duplicate content issues.
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