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EN1GMA · 10-25-2013, 09:34 AM

Hi guys,

Since I had a huge traffic drop in February, that I'm having difficulties in recovering it.
I tried almost everything, but without success.

I have some more things in mind, maybe someone can help me with that!? Or giving me some lights...

1- In google webmaster tools I have this message in "HTML Improvements". How to fix that?

Quote:

We didn't detect any content issues with your site. As we crawl your site, we check it to detect any potential issues with content on your pages, including duplicate, missing, or problematic title tags or meta descriptions. These issues won't prevent your site from appearing in Google search results, but paying attention to them can provide Google with more information and even help drive traffic to your site. For example, title and meta description text can appear in search results, and useful, descriptive text is more likely to be clicked on by users.
Last updated Oct 24, 2013

I have the same website translated in 5 different languages. Could be this the reason of the message above? But I'm using this code:

Code:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="http://fr.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="http://pt.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://es.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="it" href="http://it.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="http://ru.domain.com/" />

2- My website main page have lots of external links, should I use a nofollow tag to all of them? Could be this the reason of the traffic lost?

3- I have hundreds of affiliate links (urls with my id), and I use them like that:

Code:

http://www.domain.com/link/sitename.php

Could this harm my website traffic?
Here is the code inside the php file:

PHP Code:


			
<?

Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );

Header( "Location: http://join.affiliate.com/track/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" );

?>

Or is better to add the original URL instead of this 301 redirection?

Waiting for your replies and help, thank you guys!

Best regards

NoobGirls · 10-25-2013, 01:05 PM

Apparently google no longer likes 301 redirects..
That's what I've been told over at blackhatworld.

EN1GMA · 10-26-2013, 03:16 PM

Hi NoobGirls,

Thank you for your reply.

Are you sure about that? Where did you found that information? Can you share with us?
Anyone can confirm this too?

Can someone help me also with questions 1 and 2?

Thank you guys!

dunhill · 10-26-2013, 05:12 PM

Same thing happened to me with multi language websites, I fixed it by setting up on each translated webpage a canonical pointing to the english version. Note that you will need both the content and templates translated or you will be ending up with duplicate content.
The pagerank will flow trough the redirect, so add nofollow to the redirect too.

Or set up some blogs with stolen content, lots of adds, skimmed traffic and popunders.

EN1GMA · 10-28-2013, 02:34 AM

Hi dunhill, thank you for your reply.

About the canonical pointing, how to use in my case? Should I keep with hreflang or replace them with canonical?

Can you email me your website to see what you did?

Thanks!

dunhill · 10-30-2013, 04:37 AM

Hi,
Keep them. If you consider that the translated webpages are duplicate(template not translated or/and content auto-translated) add a canonical to the english version. I wouldn't rely always on IP location or browser language to redirect the users to their language version so add them a way to choose the language. You can go even further and host the subdomains on different IP's geolocated to their country versions and add those versions in the sitemap too.You can find a guide about the multi-languages sitemap on the google webmasters tools support website.
Anyway, as longs as you have a good bounce rate and design your website for users and not for search engines you should be fine.
As I work under a nda, I can't send you one of my websites but I can give you youporn.com as an example. Check the page source.

EN1GMA · 10-31-2013, 08:54 AM

dunhill, thank you for your reply.
That was a nice catch! But I'm already using the alternate tag as you can see in the first post, I just forgot that I was using already.

Code:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="http://fr.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="http://pt.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://es.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="it" href="http://it.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="http://ru.domain.com/" />

10-25-2013, 01:05 PM	#2
NoobGirls Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 6	Apparently google no longer likes 301 redirects.. That's what I've been told over at blackhatworld. __________________ NoobGirls.com Twitter: @NoobGirls

10-26-2013, 03:16 PM	#3
EN1GMA Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,251	Hi NoobGirls, Thank you for your reply. Are you sure about that? Where did you found that information? Can you share with us? Anyone can confirm this too? Can someone help me also with questions 1 and 2? Thank you guys!

10-26-2013, 05:12 PM	#4
dunhill Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 89	Same thing happened to me with multi language websites, I fixed it by setting up on each translated webpage a canonical pointing to the english version. Note that you will need both the content and templates translated or you will be ending up with duplicate content. The pagerank will flow trough the redirect, so add nofollow to the redirect too. Or set up some blogs with stolen content, lots of adds, skimmed traffic and popunders.

10-28-2013, 02:34 AM	#5
EN1GMA Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,251	Hi dunhill, thank you for your reply. About the canonical pointing, how to use in my case? Should I keep with hreflang or replace them with canonical? Can you email me your website to see what you did? Thanks!

10-30-2013, 04:37 AM	#6
dunhill Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 89	Hi, Keep them. If you consider that the translated webpages are duplicate(template not translated or/and content auto-translated) add a canonical to the english version. I wouldn't rely always on IP location or browser language to redirect the users to their language version so add them a way to choose the language. You can go even further and host the subdomains on different IP's geolocated to their country versions and add those versions in the sitemap too.You can find a guide about the multi-languages sitemap on the google webmasters tools support website. Anyway, as longs as you have a good bounce rate and design your website for users and not for search engines you should be fine. As I work under a nda, I can't send you one of my websites but I can give you youporn.com as an example. Check the page source.