SEO Advice needed

Posted At : February 9, 2007 12:35 AM | Posted By : Rob Gonda
Related Categories: Generic,SEO

A couple of days ago I thought Google loved me. Immediately after I posted an entry, all the keywords for this entry showed up in the very first place in Google; but my happiness did not last. My blog get aggregated by a few large itechnology portals and after a few days, Google spidered their copy of my entry. Immediately after this event, they took my place in Google and took me completely out of it. It seems like their post has more authority than mine, the content is the same (its aggregated), therefore, theirs stay, and mine goes.

Is there anything I can do about this? I'd like to keep the aggregators, but somehow claim ownership of the article. Is that mutually exclusive? Is that what micro-ids are all about? Any help would be appreciated.

posted on February 9, 2007 at 12:35 AM by Rob Gonda

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I'm not sure how helpful this is, but while I was using BlogCFC I had NO search engine cred. I wasn't even the first google search for my name, despite having it linked in a bunch of places. After going to WordPress, I show up a lot on Google. It could have just been a perfect storm of things coming together that were unrelated to my blog engine, but I remember being very frustrated with SEO while using BlogCFC. Afterwards, with Wordpress, it was great.

# Posted By Ryan Stewart | 2/9/07 5:13 AM

I've noticed this as well with blogCFC. Some of my entries show up, but not many of them.

Also, do a search on ColdFusion and see how long it takes for Ray's blog to come up - and look what comes up before him. There's definitely something about blogCFC, but I'm not sure what it is.

# Posted By Rob Brooks-Bilson | 2/9/07 9:01 AM

Make sure to check this page:

http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?nod...

I think BlogCFC is pushing its RSS feeds to similarly to the original content, and thus getting hit as a duplicate by Search Engines and many indexes are getting deleted (Especially if your RSS's are being displayed by high page rank sites).

Might be a good idea to write up a small hack that would provide an RSS summary, so that full RSS feeds aren't treated as dupes.

# Posted By Max Leynov | 2/9/07 11:40 AM

Rob,

I'll look into your issue if you tell me which post you're talking about and the keywords you were using in Google. I noticed that your descriptions and title tags are a little messed up. This post for example:
<meta name="title" content="Rob Gonda's ColdFusion BlogSEO Advice needed - " />
<meta name="description" content="Rob Gonda's opinionsSEO Advice needed - " />

See how BlogSEO and opinionsSEO are put together. There should be a space there. I don't think this is why you experienced the other problem you speak of but you definitely want to add a space.

Post that other stuff and I'll take a look for you.

-Brad

# Posted By Brad Pinzur | 2/9/07 1:04 PM

Well, for example, I was #1 in Google for 'sql uuid' and #3 for 'ColdFusion uuid'. I'm still #1 in Yahoo, but sys-con took over my place as #1 in Google, with a link to my content. Max was telling me that I need to modify my RSS feed and restrict the amount of data I allow to aggregate... I'll look into that, but how do I watermark my posts? I'd like to get my 500 posts back.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sql+uuid&... Was #1
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=coldfusio... Was #3
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=sql+uuid&fr=y... Still #1
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geuoU6vcxFNo... Still #3

# Posted By Rob Gonda | 2/9/07 1:28 PM

Fixed the meta title and desc. I switched the format from 'blog title - entry title' to 'entry title - blog title' and I forgot to switch a couple of vars.

# Posted By Rob Gonda | 2/9/07 1:34 PM

There are different schools of thought on how much data you allow people to aggregate. It really depends on your situation. Like Max is saying, you could provide a snippet instead of the whole article. Is sys-con.com the only site outranking you for your own data?

I think maybe Google isn't seeing it as duplicate content because sys-con just show snippets of your data combined with a whole bunch of other content. On top of this, there's also a link from their homepage (java.sys-con.com) to your data on their site giving it an added level of more importance. In a way I think it's tricking the Google also.

As far as getting your posts back, watermarking, etc. I'm not sure there is a way to do this....yet. That would probably require participation from Google and even then it may be difficult.

# Posted By Brad Pinzur | 2/9/07 3:13 PM

Google is really playing games with me... but I'm back at #1 for the sql uuid search ... it unbanned me ... any good explanations?

# Posted By Rob Gonda | 2/12/07 11:42 PM

When it comes to SEO, I always like to be patient. Don't let the fluctuations get to you. You don't want to start making lots of changes just because our listing is bouncing from one position to the next. Google likes to shuffle things around. Sometimes there's no good explanation for it. Perhaps the algo was confused, but now it knows that you should be on top. Maybe fixing the meta tags made the difference...maybe not. Welcome to the world of SEO. I'm glad your back on the top where you belong.

# Posted By Brad Pinzur | 2/13/07 10:57 AM

And off I go again... I give up... The Google pigeons are playing with me.

# Posted By Rob Gonda | 2/13/07 8:08 PM

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