Am I thinking the correct that not only will our pr department be able to post new press releases them selves bout would also allow good amount of hits? Also, in order for this change to work successfully do I need to allow comments to the pr’s for ranking? I would rather not allow comment to our pr’s.

Alot of what you are trying (creating articles but mashing them up, posting links on bookmark sites) are starting to move towards and area I feel uncomfortable with - you need to be careful about doing things to ‘manipulate’ the system as Google will more than likely eventually penalise you for doing so.

There are loads of ‘thin affiliate’ sites on the web. Why not try something different and use your writing abilities to put together some really unique, compelling content that might attract visitors in it’s onw right? I know it’s difficult when you have a new site and you want traffic right away - but it works

Cheers,

M

Links to other affiliate sites without any link condom - definitely a problem.

Duplicate content - not a problem unless you’ve nicked it from someone else - check the link I referenced above.

The Google Webmaster guidelines are here - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769

Cheers,

M

Thanks for taking the time out to look at my site, I am most gratefull!

I do have a some questions, where is the google guidlines located at ? I know I am new, I have never seen them, never really needed a reason.

I am sure that word press was duplicating content and I just caught it, I am new to word-press and I did not understand that the installed All In One SEO had the noindex option that meant that I could keep out search engines, on certain options, I did not know it was important, so I had them all unclicked.

Also I was playing around with the site, last night and realized that I have not been using the optional excerpt or what it even for. I know now that this helps keep down the Duplication rule.

Another mistake I think I made is that I have affiliate links all over the place that lead to http://linkgate.mydomain/X.html I tried to put the nofollow tags in the link, but I think I missed a couple so I placed a robots.txt to remove the subdomin from the index.

Here is my new main robots.txt

# Disallow directories

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /linkgate/
Disallow: /blogs/
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: */trackback*
Disallow: /wp-*
Disallow: */feed*


And here is the robots.txt os my subdomain

I also have google adsence as paid links does this hurt me ?

Also word-press creates full page RSS feeds and I have not been able to stop this, So other sites can just pull all of my orginal content on to there pages..

Maybe another mistake I done, was signup under 28 of the most popular bookmarking sites as username “IsThatAScam” and booking marking my own sites from the isthatascam.com domain - I have gotten 3 emails stating that this is not allowed, hum.. I will not be doing this again.

One smart thing I done, was to create articles, but tring not to use the same content as I posted on my website, I would change them up just a bit to give me unique article, so far I have written one article as a test, I did not see much traffic, from my stats I had more reviews see my content than other vistors.

Well hopefully I can clean this up.

Thanks,
David

I’d be checking over the google webmaster guidelines. There are a couple of things on your site that look suspiciously like paid links.

Also, some of your content appears to be copied on or from other sites - http://co.mments.com/conversations/11 ring a bell?

If this isn’t a ‘penalty’ per se, something else to be aware of is that new blogs or blog posts often have a short period where they rank extremely well - from there they then drop back into obscurity where they belong. I suspect this is algorithmic - Google gives new posts their time in the sun to see whether or not they generate attention.

Concentrate on writing good original content, building good non-nofollowed incoming links and you will start to do better.

Cheers,

M

Here are the things that I suspect happened to me..

1.. I started using tags, I did not know what these were but the very next day after playing around with the tags

2. I installed a new bookmarking plugin, “Social Dropdown” it’s a new bookmarking system where it keeps a hidden div near the top of the page, and when you click on the dropdown javascript repositions the bookmarks to make it look like a dropdown, again not sure if that affected my ranking, but I deactivated it for now.

Here is what I am starting to do..

I went ahead and added a robots file.. I just copied yours.

Next I have all_in_one_seo_pack installed and I went to options->All in One SEO and checked

Use Noindex for Categories
Use Noindex for Archives
Use Noindex for tag archives

Anyway I hope this helps me out..

If you get anymore helpful information please post it so I can find it..

Thanks,
David