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Some Questions about my site and adsense

by mdrad
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I am a new poster and new to the internet in general.

With the help of my wife, I created a successful medical information site that after 3 months or so was getting about 1000 visitors and making about $10-37/day on adsense. Then out of nowhere I got dropped. It was an anonymous site with unique content about medical imaging and various diseases (I am a practicing physician). This was a nice hobby for me and a good way to make some extra money. I think Kevin MD allowed me to get some nice backlinks. This is no longer available on this forum.

We have now put up several new sites with the same blog articles but they are getting very little traffic and it has been a month. I get fewer than 20 impressions a day. My old site still gets about 50 impressions a day probably from bing and yahoo. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could make a comeback with my new sites? I enjoyed writing articles and seeing my work pay off with extra traffic and income. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author wackiin
    if you think it was just because the backlinks hit up Crystal love she has some good high pr stuff .
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  • Profile picture of the author 36burrows
    Yeah some of your links may have been devalued for whatever reason and it dropped you.

    Hard to say much else without being able to look at the website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Smith
    Do you know how many links you used to have and how many you have now? That would be a good starting point.

    Another "post Panda" recommendation would be to add more pictures/graphs etc.. but if they are copied form another site, make sure you change the picture name, size and alt tag, this way each picture becomes "unique" and is given a higher quality rating and so is your website.

    You "can" also get penalized for page load times, so if you have videos, even embedded (YouTube for example) you'll want to make sure that "A" there is only one video per page and "B" those videos or your web pages in general aren't loading too slowly.

    Sounds strange, but it can make a difference.

    Other than that you could try to re-write you website page descriptions, add new fresh content and add more pages with related topics.

    Also see how long an average person is staying on your site as short single page visits, or a high bounce rate can also effect your rankings as Google penalizes "short visits" and deem the quality lower quality, but that doesn't sound like the issues in your case.

    Hope that helps!
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    • Profile picture of the author ttjohn
      i want to ask something about SEO is that if i remove or delete any post into my blog or web site in that condition is any searching engine reduce my ranking... or damage my site reputation
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      • Profile picture of the author Steven Smith
        Originally Posted by ttjohn View Post

        i want to ask something about SEO is that if i remove or delete any post into my blog or web site in that condition is any searching engine reduce my ranking... or damage my site reputation
        I answered this for you in another post me thinks : )
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        • Profile picture of the author ttjohn
          thx buddy!!
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          • Profile picture of the author ttjohn
            Steven! have you some do follow forums to share with me
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            • Profile picture of the author mdrad
              My site contained greater than 400 articles on medical information, medical opinion and even some finance related articles. They were all original written by me with unique content. They dropped me around midnight about a month ago.

              So in the last month, we broke up the articles into separate new sites. Thinking maybe I would stay under the radar and keep making decent adsense money. But the sites are dead as can be. Does google somehow keep a database of banned sites? Initially, the site took off within the first month. I did however use a link from a popular medical website called Kevin MD. Since then, it is no longer possible to link to this site since they changed the forum. I wonder if this was the major reason my site became relatively popular with close to 1000 visitors a day and $10-37 a day in adsense revenue.

              Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on how I can get this site going again. I now have my original site which only gets traffic from bing and yahoo, and several new sites with many of the same articles as on my old site. Anyone know of any backlinks I can use?
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              • Profile picture of the author Steven Smith
                Originally Posted by mdrad View Post

                My site contained greater than 400 articles on medical information, medical opinion and even some finance related articles. They were all original written by me with unique content. They dropped me around midnight about a month ago.

                So in the last month, we broke up the articles into separate new sites. Thinking maybe I would stay under the radar and keep making decent adsense money. But the sites are dead as can be. Does google somehow keep a database of banned sites? Initially, the site took off within the first month. I did however use a link from a popular medical website called Kevin MD. Since then, it is no longer possible to link to this site since they changed the forum. I wonder if this was the major reason my site became relatively popular with close to 1000 visitors a day and $10-37 a day in adsense revenue.

                Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on how I can get this site going again. I now have my original site which only gets traffic from bing and yahoo, and several new sites with many of the same articles as on my old site. Anyone know of any backlinks I can use?
                OK, that's a completely different scenario then.
                As you have broken the original website up into many small ones with the content you now have to wait for all the new websites to individually gain authority.

                IF you still had the original website and all it's content I was going to suggest you remove the finance related articles/pages as this probably hurt you in the rankings. It's like building a website on Ford Mustangs and also having pages/content about Wedding Dresses.

                Google doesn't see you as big an authority (enough to rank you high enough that is) as lets say another website that only has medical information on it.

                Google changes/updates their algorithm from time-to-time and the Latest Panda and Panda 2 updates were very much about finding the most relevant websites on any particular subject/keyword, that's why your site dropped and for the reasons mention above. This happened about 5-6 months ago and has effected many websites.

                IF you still had that site as it was I would add more content to it, get some back-links done add pictures to pages that don't have any and in general make the site "a nice place to be" for visitors.

                The other thing now is the fact that you could possibly have duplicate content indexed with Google IE the old content is still indexed and the new content is getting indexed. Duplicate content in itself isn't a terrible thing, but not if you tying to resurrect your site that the content derived from and is now split between your new sites.

                Do some checking to see how you new sites are indexed and go from there I suppose, the options are many and I wish you the very best!
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  • Profile picture of the author Guru SEO
    Where was your traffic coming from is the question to ask? Did you have Google webmaster and Analytics configured to track your site? These tools can tell you where the traffic is coming from , what problems you have with your site and what is your average SERP location for your pages.

    Some times if a site is new it will fluctuate , if you like writing , just write , if the articles are good they will get linked by people over time. Use social media to promote the site. Forum posting with your signature and you will get backlinks. The Health niche is very competitive, but if your content is good and you promote it with the socials, people will follow eventually.
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    • Profile picture of the author mdrad
      Most of my traffic was coming from Google. They dropped me and my traffic dropped to very few visitors. I am nowhere to be found in the index- dropped completely. The old site is still up on yahoo and bing. There is probably no chance again for my old site to get indexed from what I understand.

      The old site was broken up into two new sites with two new domain names about a month ago. All the old content is there. There is little traffic but both are indexed on google. I do not understand how when I was first started the original site it grew very quickly, but this time, there is no movement? It just does not seem to be worth it to write articles since the old ones are not getting any visitors.
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