Help With SERP Ranking Drop Due to Jobamatic
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I need some help coming back from a hit in SERP rankings that we took due to adding jobamatic to our site. Here are the details:
We have a site, site.com. We have a blog, blog.site.com. The blog was ranking very well for our key search terms. Then we created a jobamatic account and put it on jobs.site.com. If you're not familiar with jobamatic, there is a description below. The short story is that this service served up duplicate content, the kind that gets tagged by Panda so our serp rankings were crushed across the entire domain.
We took the following steps. We verified jobs.site.com with Webmaster Tools. We then requested removal of jobs.site.com in Webmaster Tools. This request was completed. We then removed the dns entry for jobs.site.com on our end.
Weeks later, google webmaster tools shows 1229 pages indexed for jobs.site.com and only 951 are listed as "blocked by robots". Why is this? Is it because we entirely removed jobs.site.com and it now returns a 403 error message? If we add the site back with nofollow robots.txt, will it solve the problem?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Jobamatic is a hosted job board software service provided by SimplyHired.com. It allows members to sell their own unique job postings, but it also posts SimplyHired's "back-fill" jobs to your account. When you sign up for Jobamatic you are given the option of using their fully hosted service or using your own domain name. So their fully hosted service would be hosted on yoursite.jobamatic.com (for example). We chose to use our own domain and created the subdomain jobs.oursite.com to host the service.
We have a site, site.com. We have a blog, blog.site.com. The blog was ranking very well for our key search terms. Then we created a jobamatic account and put it on jobs.site.com. If you're not familiar with jobamatic, there is a description below. The short story is that this service served up duplicate content, the kind that gets tagged by Panda so our serp rankings were crushed across the entire domain.
We took the following steps. We verified jobs.site.com with Webmaster Tools. We then requested removal of jobs.site.com in Webmaster Tools. This request was completed. We then removed the dns entry for jobs.site.com on our end.
Weeks later, google webmaster tools shows 1229 pages indexed for jobs.site.com and only 951 are listed as "blocked by robots". Why is this? Is it because we entirely removed jobs.site.com and it now returns a 403 error message? If we add the site back with nofollow robots.txt, will it solve the problem?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Jobamatic is a hosted job board software service provided by SimplyHired.com. It allows members to sell their own unique job postings, but it also posts SimplyHired's "back-fill" jobs to your account. When you sign up for Jobamatic you are given the option of using their fully hosted service or using your own domain name. So their fully hosted service would be hosted on yoursite.jobamatic.com (for example). We chose to use our own domain and created the subdomain jobs.oursite.com to host the service.