I have a real good content site on herbal cures. (www.herbsandcures.com). It has been online for more than 1 yr now and google has indexed more than 1000 pages from this site.Now the problem is, it is still not being shown on top google results in very specific keywords too.. Has it been sandboxed?? I am saying this bcoz, there is a reason for that.. When the site started, my site's URLs are sth like : http://www.herbsandcures.com/viewdiseasedetails.php?disease_id=11 for every disease (with different disease id offcourse) and google had indexed most of such URLs becoz they were hard coded on the pages. but after say 5 months, I implemented mod_rewrite and changed the URLs as: http://www.herbsandcures.com/view-disease-details/arteriosclerosis.html I created another PHP page and redirected it to "html" version.. Now, I have same content on 2 pages and google has indexed both of them.. Can this cause the problem and not showing my sites on google search engine? Any advice will be appreciated.. Thanks a ton
I would say that you are probably right. You need to get the duplicate content out... http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35301&topic=8459 should help you.
I think, this would be best and most efficient method : <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> Shall I place this code in viewdiseasedetails.php?disease_id=<diseaseid> ? this will also require me to change the code only in 1 page... what do u say?
I don t think so Many web masters enabled archive feature in VB which is some how creating duplicated content but nobody encounter any problem I think you can wait few weeks and check, Google behaving very strange these days
i have been waiting for last 6 months .. I definitely think, there is some problem that I am not able to figure out otherwise, such relevant content rich can not be escaped from numero uno in SEs
I don't have any knowledge of the structure of your site, but that is the easiest - put the robots meta tag in, and use the url removal tool for specific pages if they are not too numerous. The nice thing is that Google will give you the status of the removal via email, so if you need to, shut the whole site out from robots for a few days and use the tool. I know that sounds extreme, but could your rankings really suffer that much more for the few days it would be uncrawled?