HHI Golf Guy
03-21-2005, 04:00 PM
In a previous post (http://www.national-real-estate-directory.com/real-estate-forum/showthread.php?p=2024#post2024) I mentioned that it looks like one of our sites is being penalized for dupe content by Google because of 302 redirects.
Upon further review, it looks like the culprit is realestate4(dot)com and some of their affiliates that use a 302 redirect. In effect, because their domain has a higher PR than my domain in question, my site is pegged as the one with dupe content.
NOTE: I am still waiting for Google to confirm my hypothesis on this. In no way am I trying to disparage any of the sites using the 302 redirect. In fact, I have contacted them asking them to change their link programming remove the 302's. I firmly believe that they are unaware that G may be penalizing sites because of 302's.
If anyone else uses realestate4(dot)com, realestateim(dot)com, search4agent(dot)com, or realestateagentcentral(dot)com please go to Google and type in:
site:www.yourdomain.com
What you should see is a list of your pages that are indexed by Google. Each result should have a link with your page title followed by a page description. If you have any results showing as URL's only without the proper page title and a description G may be dropping pages because of their dupe filter.
Check all of your results and see if any of the listed URL's (in green) are from any of the sites that I mentioned above. Let me know the results - so far I have been unsuccessful in contacting these guys to discuss what is going on.
Keep in mind that even if you have links from these sites now and you are not seeing any page drops, you may see them in the future. Then again, you may not. I don't know what additional criteria trips the Google filter.
Upon further review, it looks like the culprit is realestate4(dot)com and some of their affiliates that use a 302 redirect. In effect, because their domain has a higher PR than my domain in question, my site is pegged as the one with dupe content.
NOTE: I am still waiting for Google to confirm my hypothesis on this. In no way am I trying to disparage any of the sites using the 302 redirect. In fact, I have contacted them asking them to change their link programming remove the 302's. I firmly believe that they are unaware that G may be penalizing sites because of 302's.
If anyone else uses realestate4(dot)com, realestateim(dot)com, search4agent(dot)com, or realestateagentcentral(dot)com please go to Google and type in:
site:www.yourdomain.com
What you should see is a list of your pages that are indexed by Google. Each result should have a link with your page title followed by a page description. If you have any results showing as URL's only without the proper page title and a description G may be dropping pages because of their dupe filter.
Check all of your results and see if any of the listed URL's (in green) are from any of the sites that I mentioned above. Let me know the results - so far I have been unsuccessful in contacting these guys to discuss what is going on.
Keep in mind that even if you have links from these sites now and you are not seeing any page drops, you may see them in the future. Then again, you may not. I don't know what additional criteria trips the Google filter.