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Need Help --- Please!

by kirb
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I do have a question about duplicate content or what could be conceived of as duplicate content.

I have noticed that several of my competitors have created a number of pages whereby the only difference in content is the city and state name, and they are being indexed and searchable by Google. That is, whenever someone does a city or state specific search on an industry related topic, their respective sites are at the top of the first page. I know that the content is the same when I change their URL that resulted from a search, say /.../../Seattle, to /.../.../Boston.

I attempted to do the same, and though my site has been crawled considerably over the last two weeks, none of these pages have yet to come up in the search results. Am I being penalized by Panda or am I being too impatient waiting for some positive results? Please do not reply with an original content suggestion since I'm doing the exact same thing as my competitors.

Thank you!
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  • Profile picture of the author sriram rajan
    Well duplicate content is fine , as logn as there are syndicated / curated etc .. but along with the content , did you check their backlining strategy , video marketing strategy if any and social presence, as these are factors which affect your page rankings
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    • Profile picture of the author kirb
      Originally Posted by sriram rajan View Post

      Well duplicate content is fine , as logn as there are syndicated / curated etc .. but along with the content , did you check their backlining strategy , video marketing strategy if any and social presence, as these are factors which affect your page rankings
      The one has the same pagerank as my site. So it's not about the pagerank or so it seems. When I do a search on a city, keyword and the name of my company, no page appears.
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      • Profile picture of the author cashcow
        Originally Posted by kirb View Post

        The one has the same pagerank as my site. So it's not about the pagerank or so it seems. When I do a search on a city, keyword and the name of my company, no page appears.
        I don't think pagerank is a good indicator of anything anymore. Have you looked at the back links, social media links etc... for these competing pages? Also, you need to compare page to page, not just the homepage of the site.
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        • Profile picture of the author kirb
          Originally Posted by cashcow View Post

          I don't think pagerank is a good indicator of anything anymore. Have you looked at the back links, social media links etc... for these competing pages? Also, you need to compare page to page, not just the homepage of the site.
          I know that I changed the site in the last two weeks. Is that too soon to expect google to index the pages and have them be searchable?
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          • Profile picture of the author RogueOne
            Originally Posted by kirb View Post

            Is that too soon to expect google to index the pages and have them be searchable?
            No.

            Some pages get indexed almost immediately.

            Have you built some social media links, particularly G+1?
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            • Profile picture of the author kirb
              Originally Posted by RogueOne View Post

              No.

              Some pages get indexed almost immediately.

              Have you built some social media links, particularly G+1?
              To a degree i.e. Twitter. I just created a Pinterest account as well. Do you think that G+ will help?
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              • Profile picture of the author RogueOne
                Originally Posted by kirb View Post

                Do you think that G+ will help?
                More than any other!
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                • Profile picture of the author kirb
                  Originally Posted by RogueOne View Post

                  More than any other!
                  What plan of attack would you advise me to run with for the next 6 months? I'm currently committed to several forums, I'm leaving comments all over the place, I've gotten a high level on yahoo answers ....
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    • Profile picture of the author kirb
      Originally Posted by sriram rajan View Post

      Well duplicate content is fine , as logn as there are syndicated / curated etc .. but along with the content , did you check their backlining strategy , video marketing strategy if any and social presence, as these are factors which affect your page rankings
      What do you mean by syndicated/curated? Also, how do I determine their back-linking strategy, and to that end what's a great plan of attack for the next 6 months?
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  • Profile picture of the author RogueOne
    Originally Posted by kirb View Post

    I'm doing the exact same thing as my competitors
    How do you know that?

    Also, if they are already at the top why do you think you can take that spot away with the same content?
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    • Profile picture of the author kirb
      Originally Posted by RogueOne View Post

      How do you know that?

      Also, if they are already at the top why do you think you can take that spot away with the same content?
      What I meant by that is I'm naming the title the same way ... The content is somewhat different as what's listed on my site is a bit different than theirs. More to the point, when I say their site, I mean all the competitors each have their own content and each one of them are superseding my visibility.
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  • Profile picture of the author icoachu
    Run a ranking search on their pages' target keywords. If the content is what you say it is, I highly doubt they would rank well without added curated/syndicated content. Dig deeper than the surface.
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    • Profile picture of the author kirb
      Originally Posted by icoachu View Post

      Run a ranking search on their pages' target keywords. If the content is what you say it is, I highly doubt they would rank well without added curated/syndicated content. Dig deeper than the surface.
      How do I syndicate my content?
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