Today I checked the my google coverage with the site:www. command - MOST of my pages no longer show any content / Google shows them like this! I think that means I wont be coming up on keyword searches! I don't know if this has anything to do with the co-op but as it's only affecting the resutls archive area and that's the only place I'm running the co-op ads... It could be something else as I guess there would be a huge uproar if it had happened to everyone... any thoughts? anyone?
Could well be content issue. Left nav, top header, right column and footer stay they same on each page whereas the body just shuffles the horses name in different order. Percentage wise a very close match to each other. Probably affected by duplicate content.
My guess is that Google is filtering it because the pages look so similar. Google has been getting more aggressive on filtering duplicate content lately.
Hmmm... I was hoping that wasn't the case - it's quite hard, as the data on my site isn't duplicate but is very similar as all of the horses / jockey's racecourses are the same week in week out... I AM in the middle of rationalizing the navigation for this area and adding new areas to the site but any suggestions greatly appreciated - the archive will still be my main bulk of content.
Add a RSS feed to it - horses or pet related, or some other dynamic feed like amazon books related to horses etc. Gives you unique content as well as referal income.
Great idea! Add a rotating rss to the archive pages... I've been posting in some rss threads this week too - should have thought of that myself! Thanks man! haha I'll have you know this is a serious thoroughbred horse racing website - nothing pet related on here!
Just mentioned that doubting there would be enough related feeds, pets would keep it themed at least. But yes, best would be something useful for the readers plus highly relevant for the bots.