Why has this site upset Google?

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Hi,

I would be really grateful if anybody could review my site to see why it has been penalized by Google. As discussed in a previous thread it appears to have a severe penalty by google.:confused:

I am willing to work to put any errors right and ask google to reconsider.

Or

start all over again with new URL, but would lke to avoid making same error again

My site is:

kitchen accessories heaven

Thanks for any advice
#search engine optimization #google #penalty #site #upset
  • How did you come to know it is penalized ..? did you get any mail in webmaster tool..? if yes then work according to the mail and if not then as i checked your site still have 319 pages indexed in google so i dont think its penalized .. keep in mind always use fresh content because duplicate content some time result low ranking in search engine
    hope you will find these lines useful
  • Maybe the text on your pages is to similar to the original (amazon). Quality and unique content is the key to ranking. Although you never know with this panda update.

    How do you fix it? Google said that once you've been penalized there is no telling when your site will be able to rank again. Could be weeks, could be months.

    I was thinking about starting a similar site (in a totally different niche), but noticed that almost all review sites were penalized by google. Even the big ones that work hard at providing quality and unique content.
    Don't know why that is, maybe someone else can shed a light on that.
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    • Yes! This may be the reason.
  • It doesn't seem to be specifically penalised but. When searching for the first paragraph of your breville toaster review without " you are right down the bottom of page 1 which is weird as it seems to be unique content on the web.

    However when putting the " in, your site shows up with 4 different pages with that content duplicated. This is just from the first and only test but if it is happening across the site with other content and you only have 300 odd pages it might be causing a duplicate content issue within your site?
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    • Thanks Nick,

      sorry to be dim but could you explain how you found it registering as duplicate content...

      I know I've been having some issues with a search page, i.e when you click on a page in a web search instead of taking you to that page direct it takes you to a search page that lists all pages that may be relavent.

      Not been able to work out what may have caused this, would this cause an issue with duplicate content?

      Thanks for the advice
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  • I have looked at your backlinks and they are almost all from just two sites - the Warrior Forum and a Wordpress blog. After clicking on the wordpress blog and looking for links to your site I cannot find any. If they have all suddenly been taken down this could have a negative effect on your rank.

    I think you may need to build more relevant, in-content links to your site from a wider range of sources that will stay there and not remove your links in the future (using article marketing, for example). This could help you improve your rank.
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    • your site is fairly new so its pretty normal , do some good slow and but quality link building , should come back soon
  • Your site is not penalized at all, because you are still coming top for some long tail keywords. You have probably lost some rankings due to Google QDF / Honeymoon period, or the fact that a previous post stated that 50% of your back links have disappeared.
  • Google has penalised the sites that had copied content...Please see that there is no copied content on your site or blog.
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    • The only copied content on the site is in quotes user feedback from mainly Amazon

      Would that be a problem?
  • I am not even sure you are penalized unless Google informed you of the situation. I do only see two backlinks but you are still appearing in Google for long tail keywords and still have over 300 pages indexed. If this is a fairly new site you are just moving around in the SERPS. Many mentioned duplicate content. make sure your content is original.
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    • Concerned that I have 300 pages indexed as on my site I actually have

      26 pages
      9 posts
      8 categories
      15 tags

      So I still worrying that I've got a problem with strange listings,what could cause that?
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  • I'm not sure what to do in wordpress to stop that but your test with the first paragraph returned 8 results for me and some of them went to page not found. Weird!! That is probably why you are getting many pages indexed but they must all be linked frm somewhere
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    • Sounds to me like you need to set a lot of the "junk" pages to "noindex" so Google will not index things such as your search results pages or your tag archives.

      There is a nice plugin available called wordpress seo by yoast which contains a feature that allows you to alter what is indexed and what is not indexed on your site; might want to give that a look.
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  • Here is a good site showing how to detect if/why your site has suffered a Google Penalty:
    How to Handle a Google Penalty - And, an Example from the Field of Real Estate | SEOmoz
  • There are several penalties that your site could have incurred:

    1) I ran your site through the Google Penalty Checker and found that it WAS, in fact, penalized. You can check it here: SEO Moves | Google Penalty Checker Tool

    2) You have COPIED content from Amazon.co.uk. Check out the proof here:
    Copyscape search results for: http://kitchenaccessoriesheaven.com/red-kitchen-accessories/
    That's just ONE little section of text for a red microwave
    3) You have FORUM PROFILE links, and links UNRELATED to your blog which Google recognizes as a bl@ckh@t technique:
    Site Explorer - Search Results

    My suggestions:

    REMOVE the copied content, and write content of your own... and get rid of the bad backlinks to your site. Penalties like this can last anywhere from a couple of weeks to months.

    Hope this helps...

    P.S. This penalty checker DOES work and is ACCURATE, as I've tested it on several domains that I thought were under penalty after they dropped off of the face of the earth, and also with domains that I knew for sure had no penalty, and this checker was right 100% of the time for both penalized and non penalized domains.
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    • The only content is some quoted user feedback from amazon, I was advised to add some of these in a war room post. So I wasn't aware that some quotes would cause so much trouble.

      The rest of the site is my writing and content (except obvious manufacturer names specs).

      Again I have read on other threads that a wide range of backlinks,not just subject relevant, was desirable. so are the links from WF blackhat?

      Should all sigs that not related to im be removed?

      I'm getting confused as to what to do at the moment, but thank you for checking for penalty for me.
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  • If the issue of indexing then your site's pages would be indexed slowly, if you haven't used duplicate content on your site.

    it is not sure that all pages of site would be indexed in one day by Google.
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