Did dynamic submission screw my seo campaign?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by seoninja, Aug 30, 2007.

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    Before coming onboard, the company I'm consulting for used Dynamic Submission to index some 6,000 pages to a supposed list of more than 1000 search engines/pseudo-search engines.

    Some of the SEs appear to be (surprise, surprise) nothing more than link farms, which I know can hurt pr and search results. Nothing like starting out even...

    Is there any remedy, automated or otherwise, to get your pages OUT of these places?

    Does anyone know how to reverse engineer dynamic submission? ;)

    Am I too worried?
     
    seoninja, Aug 30, 2007 IP
  2. speda1

    speda1 Well-Known Member

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    Let me guess, now you're sandboxed? You might be ok if you have a ton of unique content.

    You can't reverse anything. Best bet is to slowly add high quality links now.
     
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  3. onedollar

    onedollar SEO Consultant for Hire

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    Get those pseudo pages blocked in robots.txt and focus on getting some legitimate links to your legit pages:)
     
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  4. seoninja

    seoninja Peon

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    Great suggestion...the pages submitted were databased dynamic pages, though. Basically, they're the site's "patented search engine" results pages.

    Does the dynamic aspect make a difference? Wouldn't I need to add the robots meta tag to every single page, or is there an automated way to do this, or am I totally off...

    On a related note:

    These pages I'm referring to have one parameter in the url, with endings like "aspx?cid=108". It seems like the search engines still like these pages, because I've had them indexed by G, Y.

    But is there any seo value in doing a mod-rewrite to include keywords in the url? My feeling is that this could helps with serps.

    I appreciate all feedback and insight. I'm obviously new to this whole thing, at least putting it into practice.
     
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  5. Gnet

    Gnet Peon

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    Mass directory and/or search engine submissions will ALWAYS hurt your site.

    Its not something you should practice on forcing, just work on content boosts.
     
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  6. onedollar

    onedollar SEO Consultant for Hire

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    Yes, the dynamic aspect can make some difference depending upon how you handle it. No you would not need to add robots tag to every page, an appropriate entry in robots.txt file and .htaccess should suffice.:)

    Nintendo is DP's resident expert in such matters and you can check his thread here
    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=23044

    Regarding mod-rewrite, yes it should help you with seo if you do it right :)
     
    onedollar, Aug 31, 2007 IP