pbryd

My foldablebikes /co/uk is being penalised by google.

It's a shopping site for folding bikes that uses a product feed.

I think the amount of dynamic generated pages may be to blame.

I've tried blocking the /shop directory in the robots.txt but then I get a 'severe health warning' in google web master tools.

I've submitted some articles and a few blog posts but no luck getting it moved up in googles serps.

I'm considering moving the /shop directory to a sub domain to see if that helps (shop.foldablebikes...)

searching 'foldable bikes' on bing and I'm number 1 in the UK.

Any opinions or suggestions.

Phil

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ratboy

Most datafeed sites have been killed off by the big one.

If you want to get it back, it's a redesign, new content, new concept.

But they do come back well, so worth a try.

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JMOT

bin it. turn it into a proper website. Get a whole bunch of proper content written by contentnow then take the top 10 bikes you know were selling and do a proper page of content for each one.

Grow it from there.

End goal should be dropshipping them with one of the shops you were feeding with affiliate sales.

You need terms and conditions, privacy etc etc type pages.

GreyWing

You could always try the method that I choose to get my site back into Google...

Although it's probably best not to ask

It involved for the first few weeks trying to change my site to please Google, then after being declined for the third time I wrote them a strongly worded email with plenty of swearing, a rant and finally to tell them I was putting my site back to what it was before it was banned....

3 days later they sent me an email apologising, now I feel guilty as hell. But they do state their re inclusion requests are all read by human people.

With yours though, Johnny and JMOT are spot on and I'd say that is the way to go.

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pbryd

Cheers Guys

I'm a bit disappointed, I've recently taught myself how to use datafeeds, php and mysql too.

I have a ordered a few articles and do a quick re-design like you say.

Cheers

Phil

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ratboy

Phil,

Welcome to heartbreak hotel... owned by Google.

pbryd

Here's what I had ...

• 111 pages.
• Dynamic page for each bike.
• Blocked the dynamic and shop pages in the robots.txt file

This resulted in a severe health warning in google and the site being panalised.

To try and resolve this I un-blocked the dynamic pages and the shop directory, solving the severe health warning message in google webmaster.

I've removed the dynamic pages, making the 'read more' button go directly to the merchants site. This has reduced the site from 111 pages to 45.

I will add an articles page when I receives them and remove the table of bikes from the main page.

If that doesn't resolve the big G issues then it will have to be re-design and removal of the feeds.

Thanks

Phil

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Nick

Usually gives you more information on what the severe health warning is?

Have you changed URLs? (some possible 404s)
Have you got a non-www duplicate
Have you got unique content on category pages

With the robots.txt disallowing 'important' pages I usually just ignore it as G doesn't seem to understand I want external links blocked

pbryd

It was 'blocking important pages'.

I did have some unique content about the brand of each bike.

I'll see what a few more articles bring along with the reduced number of pages.

I may also drop the cheaper bikes and focus on the more expensive models to reduce pages even more.

This would improve the ratio of unique content / datafeed content.

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pbryd

It's a shame 'cos I was really chuffed with myself for cracking the datafeed and php stuff.

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