What would you do about these backlinks?
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A few years ago I made a syndication deal that ended up putting all of my articles as an full RSS feed on a bunch of Local Television Station and Local Newspaper sites across america, and also on a bunch of my competitor sites. I had to get on the phone and beg but somehow I convinced them. As a result, We have a few thousand articles and each one has been syndicated across about 200 powerful sites.
It is probably over million backlinks. They are not marked as no follow, and most of the sites are really good respected trusted places. The content is basically just straight dupe content of the original article with a read more link pointing back to us as the source.
The articles are buried pretty deep in the sites and there is not a good directory structure for the bot to follow and find them. The user needs to search for the topic first, and only then will my syndicated pages show up. This may be why they are not indexed, or maybe the bot did somehow or another crawl there and never bothered to include in the index because it saw the content a bunch of other places knew the entire section was dupe content. For whatever reason, 99.9% of the pages were not indexed at all. They did find some of them and they show up on my WebmasterTools but just a small fraction of them.
What would you do?
1 - Ignore this and just go back to trying to make good content.
2 - Pick a handful of the best sites and best pages and back link them to make sure google crawls them.
3 - Somehow or another try and force the googlebot to go and crawl all of these pages?
and if you think 3 how would you approach it.
It is probably over million backlinks. They are not marked as no follow, and most of the sites are really good respected trusted places. The content is basically just straight dupe content of the original article with a read more link pointing back to us as the source.
The articles are buried pretty deep in the sites and there is not a good directory structure for the bot to follow and find them. The user needs to search for the topic first, and only then will my syndicated pages show up. This may be why they are not indexed, or maybe the bot did somehow or another crawl there and never bothered to include in the index because it saw the content a bunch of other places knew the entire section was dupe content. For whatever reason, 99.9% of the pages were not indexed at all. They did find some of them and they show up on my WebmasterTools but just a small fraction of them.
What would you do?
1 - Ignore this and just go back to trying to make good content.
2 - Pick a handful of the best sites and best pages and back link them to make sure google crawls them.
3 - Somehow or another try and force the googlebot to go and crawl all of these pages?
and if you think 3 how would you approach it.
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Thanks
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