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New member... BIG question

by schu88
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Hello all,
I've been practicing SEO for a little over a year now and have read warrior forum occasionally in that time, though this is my first time posting. That said, I have a quick question.

I'm working with a recipe aggregator site and we've seen some major rankings drops in formerly well ranking, traffic driving keywords. Upon some digging, my theory is that because we've (naturally) acquired a good # of links in sidebars and footers of coupon-sites or bloggers writing about coupons (we have a coupon section on the site) that have a lot of ads, so we might be getting dinged for that. Looking at some of these sites manually, some of them look pretty junkry. We haven't gotten an unnatural linking warning from Google, but I suspect that's what it is. Has anyone hear seen anything similar?

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author paul nicholls
    having lots of links in sidebars and footers is a sign that a site could be using provate networks to influence rankings

    as google are actively looking for private networks and clamping down, links in sidebars and footers is a good footprint for them to start at for indentifying sites that have been using private networks

    theres no absolute conrete proof of this but it is logical and would make sense for google to do this

    paul
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  • Profile picture of the author msu
    You said the site was a recipe aggregator, I think that's the most likely problem - duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author sovereignn
    Links in sidebars is something you shouldn't want

    These types of links are Google's big no-no
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Mak
    yes, every page on your site will have the same link pointing to the site. if your site have 1000 pages, which mean you have 1000 outbound links.

    A lot of duplicate content will looks like an autoblog in google eye.
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