The last few days, the weight on one of my sites has dropped to zero and has remained there. Ads are appearing, it seems to validate OK, but 0 weight. I've reinstalled the latest files, purged the text file and waited a few days for weight to come back - but nothing. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? The site is www.529rewards.com Thanks
Looking at the API it looks like you've dropped a lot of pages and the ones that are left either have no description or have the same one. I think you are going to be having issues with duplicate content. Anyway, I only show about 20 pages indexed and those are missing descriptions.
The site isn't very big; 20 pages indexed seems low but not unrealistic. The Backlink Tracker show 31 pages. If I'm missing or have duplicate descriptions, would this be a meta tag issue? I've paid most attention to title tags, are the description tags critical as well? Some of the literature led me to believe that keyword and description tags were more or less being ignored these days. Wrong thinking? The "duplicate content" thing is new to me. Does the issue go beyond duplicate descriptions? My content is researched from other sources (isn't everything?), but original. I'm not copying pages just to have a large site or anything. Hope you can be patient with me. I'm fairly new to this and learning. Thanks
After investigating further, I think I understand the source of my angst. The weight on my one site is shown as zero because of my election to consolidate weight. I guess the overall consolidated weight of my two sites has dropped which I misinterpreted to be caused by one site going to zero. I think the two things are independent of each other but appeared to be related. Anyway, this is how I am understanding things.
Mine did too, so I think I'm going to remove the consolidation to see if that makes a difference. My weight has been all f#%@ed up since I consolidating.