Is your website under performing in Google? One of the reasons could be that someone stole your content. I have a website called Lingerie Party. A couple of years ago, my wife and I created it. We put alot of work into the Lingerie Party website and were very proud of our efforts. We created lingerie party invitations, lingerie party games, lingerie party themes and uploaded everything to the website so that people who want to organize a lingerie party only need to go to the website and download everything for free. We spent several days making quality lingerie party invitations, creating quality photos to decorate the site, etc.
Although we got plenty of links to the Lingerie Party website, we were dismayed that the website got very little attention from Google. Strangely, Google delivers search to some of the internal pages but not to the home page. In fact, the homepage was pretty much ignored by Google.
Recently, I think I might have discovered why. I did a search on some of the content of the homepage and discovered that another website had copied the homepage word for word! I was astonished.
This may explain why Google is not sending traffic to my homepage. It is possible that Google sees the homepage as duplicate content and is ignoring it.
Here are the steps I have taken:
* I have removed the content from my home page, so that it can heal as soon as possible. I have created an internal page (Lingerie Party Ideas) and transferred the content there.
* I have created new content for the home page
* I wrote to the owner of the website via their website and asked them to remove the content. They ignored that friendly request.
* I went to the Whois website and gotten the name and email address of the owner of the website.
* I wrote an email to the owner and copied their intenet provider and demanded that they remove the content.
If they do not remove it now, I will call their internet provider and I will contact Google.
The efforts are already paying off. The homepage is already appearing on the 3rd page of Google for the keyords Lingerie Party and Lingerie parties. I am hoping that it will appear on the front page Google for the keyword Lingerie Party before long.
Lesson: If your website is underperforming in Google, put a few lines of your homepage into the Google search engine. Your website should be the ONLY site that Google has indexed with that content. If it is not, change the content or contact the offending party.
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14 years ago
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That's a great point. The same can go for lenses. I've had a few lenses that have had stolen content elsewhere on the web, once even on Squidoo itself. It can have an effect on your lenses, so it's worth checking.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard for me to believe that people can be such outright thieves like that, but obviously there are those that can. What a pain that you have to go through all this to get back your own property. I'm glad you're seeing positive results already.
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