After scratching my head for a few days as to why my site suddenly lost allll pagerank (check here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=862890) I figured because I don't buy/sell links, do the same amount of link exchange as thousands other sites and have fresh content multiple times a day that there must be another reason. My guess is duplicate content across a number of pages. You see at http://wrestlingtruth.com I have my main page with all the latest news from all categories of news. Then I have different pages for different categories and have the same news that was listed on the main page. My question is why the hell would google give crap about that - this helps my users who don't want to go through the days listing and just pick a specific category. It's so fing annoying when there a blackhat spammers out there making thousands ad other idiots commenting on blogs all day. Now I have no idea what to do and how to clean all of this up. I don't want to make a whole new website. Another thing is that my actual serps are fine. Why would they penalize my pagerank but not my serps? ahhhhh I want to cry.
the pagerank is something else than your serp results. Pagerank 0 sites can outrank pagerank 4 sites. Because they are more relevant. (hands down)The problem with your site may be that it is not relevant. A normal article page has decent text with e.g. around the 300 or more words. You just have 4 or 5 lines with original text and the rest of the page is indeed the same as everywhere else on your site. So your bio at the top (which is duplicated content) has more text than your article itself. This means that the duplicated content ratio is to high. I don't know the precise percentage but I think that maybe 80% of an article page is duplicated content. This doesn't mean that you have to remove everything, but that you have to write decent articles. With more text. Try to write at last 250 words per article. Make it more relevant for your readers and it will be more valuable for the search engines. Your website does now only look like a splog (Blog to only make money, nothing more (spam blog)). So make your website better by having good content. On this moment you don't have good content and if I was Google I indeed descreased your pagerank. QOUTE: WWE Heat, which has now been canceled is being replaced with a legends show. In the UK it has been entitled "WWE Vintage Collection" and will debut June 8th on the usual Sky Sports timeslot. It will feature old school footage and will be hosted by legendary ring announcer Gene Okerlund. ____________________ This is the whole article of one page. And its not enough to be relevant. So I suggest you remove the whole part from " Wrestling News & Wrestling Rumors" until where your article title starts. On this way the reader will immediately see you article. Then write good content with a minimum of 250 words, but more is better. Then the link under the article to you recent articles can be cut in half. Nobody is going to read your last 20 articles, because it is old news. Then please remove the function that if I click just on you background, where is nothing that a pop up arize. This is really irritating and spammy for your visitors. When you lose trust from your visitors by having toooo much banners, you will finally lose trust from the search engines. Or in short: Quality before quantity. Write your articles to gain returning visitors!! Quality Quality Quality!!! If you apply that, you will gain more visitors and at last a higher pagerank again.
In my fast paced niche I have to be constantly updating the page with the latest story. It's all about breaking news rather than a huge article. For example the reader doesn't want to know the complete history of WWE heat every time there's a new revelation, they already know it. They just need to know that the latest news about it being canceled, which has been covered for a few weeks. That is just one article, many are a lot longer. It all depends what's new.
In this case what is new can be a lot more: Why is it cancelled? Why is it replaced by another show and are all the guys from the previous show now playing in the new one? And if some guys won't play anymore in the new show, why? Is it a positive thing that the show is replaced or does it also have negative sides? etc. etc. Yes you can write more! And I garantee that a lot will be new for you readers, if you answer these questions.
Well ok I see your point, but most of these questions have already been answered when the story first broke, I'm just topping it up with the new details about the UK broadcast and to be honest I know (because I'm a journalist in this field) that it really isn't a big deal to the majority of the readers anyway. I don't want to get hung up on this particular story because it is what it is. This being said I still don't understand why I've gone from pr3 (predicted 5 next update) to 0 all of a sudden. My site is one of the fastest rising in its niche, specially because I break news before a lot of other sites. I think you're right about the other content like navigation, the introduction at the top etc overpowering the articles but I can't figure out how to have each article go to a cleaner page using my script. Ideally the main page would have all the navigation, intro and list of headlines like it does - but when clicking a headline it would go to a page by itself with nothing else on it accept a "return to headlines" button or something like that. I'm scared to do a complete site redesign in case I lose serps oh and the popup thing is annoying and I'm looking for alternatives to paypopup.com
I don't really now who your visitors are and what they want. But If you cover live stuff then maybe coveritlive.com is something for you. Then you can instantly post when something happens (like chatting). By doing this you will have more text, you will interact with your visitors and more. So just check out the site, maybe it is good for what you try to achieve, but maybe not. Just a tip to increase you copysize :-P
Quality guidelines - specific guidelines Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
Yes it is, but it won't hurt. Only Google will only let the most valuable page come into the serps. In many cases this won't be the article page but the homepage or even category page. So what I have done with my blog is putting the noindex, follow tag on the category pages. The result is that the category page will not be indexed anymore, but Google will still follow the links in those category pages. The next thing I have done is making a unique homepage. You can also limit the number of words per article on your homepage. Then get enough links to your article pages to let google know these article pages are more important for the certain keywords than the homepage. Do this by submitting your pages to social bookmark sites with dofollow links to your pages. Then it also get indexed faster
Am I making a fuss over nothing - after reading around and the above comments it seems pagerank is separate from serps (which I still can't get my head around, I mean if I'm penalized then why would they trust my serps?) I'm still ranking top for all my keywords, just I have no pagerank. So does it matter?