Hi All, I am looking to relaunch a website that i suppose has been penalized (or for lack of other appropriate words - isn't that more appealing to google and probably other search engines as well) by Google. Although I suppose it's still indexed by Google as the last googlebot visit was yesterday, i suspect it's no longer on the Google (and probably others) priority list. Why do i suspect this ? 1) When i input the domain name(not including the .com) into google, although the number of results for the domain keyword is high, the actual link/indexed page to my site is only 1 and e that too is with the .info extension although the site is a .com.(Main domain on shared hosting is a .info) 2) When i input the domain name(including the .com) into google, although again the number of results is high, there are actually only 4-5 links/indexed pages to my site 3)Number of page views has fallen considerably( only source of people coming to know about my site was through the search engines such as google as there was no other form of marketing) and now they alternate between 500-600 one month to 100-200 another month. I'm not sure why this is an alternating monthly pattern... 4) No more new user registrations since past many months (as people might hardly be finding my site through Googe etc.) What I have probably done wrong ? I didn't realize that this was an issue at the start but the ... 1)Site built up Duplicate content due to duplicate postings over a period of time and probably different url's pointing to the same content. 2) I changed url structure / page url's to make them more search engine friendly without redirecing the old url structure to the new one. What I want to achieve ? 1) Complete relaunch ... all previous content will not be needed. 2)Same Domain Name as previously for the old site will be used. 3) The content will now be intended for global community instead of a single specific country as with the previous site. Probably I might decide to use the old content for the country specific domain that it was intended for. 4)Probably hosting providers will be changed. Looking forward to some of your insight and experience based on this.
I would suggest a few measures that might help you: 1. Get a fresh , appealing and genuine content from a quality content writer, and don't over-stuff the content with lots of keywords. 2. Check the website for the possibility of broken links. These also might cause trouble. 3. Pick keywords for which you can rank easily and get good quality searches. 4. Postings for the site must be fresh and not used else where or you will be penalized by Google.
@webeveronpromo - The site has user generated content and doesn't need a content writer. And since the content is dynamic , you can not manually add meta tags or keywords for each page...this is achieved dynamically through programming . Anyone else who cares to reply to this post, please take care that your answers are relevant and useful. I apologize to anyone who might be offended by "Anyone else who cares to reply to this post, please take care that your answers are relevant and useful." To me, webeveronpromo's comments seem to be kind of spam promoting a service .... Anyone who has anything relevant to add or share their knowledge and experience is most welcome
Anyone any suggestions what should work here ... start seo from scratch for a new site on the old domain or take advantage of whatever few Google indexed pages are there?
The social media aspects are easy enough to migrate, and if you have an email list it would be wise to alert your old visitors that way.