2 questions on avoiding issues with Google and while being right in it.
-
Hi SEOmoz community
In fact I have two questions I would like to ask (with future SEO in mind).
- Do you consider a WordPress Multisite or various Single installs 'safer' for SEO?
Theoretically, having various sites packed into one Multisite network seems like an ideal solution. However, is there a chance that once a site in the network encounters a little 'negative turbulence', that your other sites in the network might get impacted too due to the cross-referencing, linked account i.e. Webmaster Tools etc.? It would seem outrageous, but then again I wouldn't rule it out. Do I even have to go as far as setting up new Gmail, Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools accounts, so they (the sites) are technically not linked? You can see, I don't trust search engines one bit...
- Is there still a point posting articles once Google is having a hissy fit with your site?
Basically I am currently going through a 'rankings and traffic drops storm'. It's not as bad as being de-indexed, but it's still having enough of an impact. In addition, Google does not seem to treat my new articles (unique content) with the same attention anymore i.e. does not seem to index them 'fully' or not at all (i.e. posting the headline in Google should return the article, but it doesn't). Is there even a point spending time now and posting new material or may it pick it up again once I am through this low phase? Does Google still index what it considers worth or is it a waste of time right now to keep posting, posting and posting more?
Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it.
-
Hi Corey
Thanks for your quick response.
Regarding your answer to point 1): Well, it's not like I am intending to do shady stuff. I am in the affiliation industry and all sites cater for the same topic, but with a different edge and or language even. I was only wondering, since my main site seems to have a few problems at the moment and my second new site is not even being acknowledged by Google still - yet it's a different site altogether, but on the same network and linked to the same Google account i.e. Webmaster tools.
Regarding point 2): I understand your point on guest posting, but I was actually talking about my own posts on my site. If Google currently does not seem to bother much about them right now, is there a point to keep writing in this instance? Don't get me wrong, it picked up pretty much every article before, sometimes within the hour. Now it's like Google does not give much of a dime. It's a hard question, but that is why I was asking, if it still considers content on your own troubled site, or if it goes into shutdown mode regardless. Not much point writing new articles, if Google may not want to be 'convinced'.
I guess this may be more of a discussion actually. Anyways, thanks again for any responses.
-
This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but here, it really, really depends.
1.) If each site has a totally legitimate place, is totally different, and has it's own totally interested, engaged audience, is not interlinked (since they're totally different), or funneling towards a common "hub" in a wheel that was built by a common owner, I think you're fine. By nature of looking slightly more like other sites that do shady stuff, you might have a little more to "prove" to Google via awesome content and backlinks in this scenario. By I don't think it means that no one can use WordPress multisite features anymore.
2.) Sure, articles are just content. Guest articles on major blogs/news sites are thriving. They're run on some of the highest quality sites on the Internet to this day and provide backlinks. In this sort of way, Google really hasn't changed in 10+ years. They'll go after a link building method with a hatchet (like article spam directories), but only to people that exhibit a means of exploiting bulk crap. If your articles are awesome, and get placed in places that are awesome (ie. forbes.com awesome, auto-approve article directory that's been spammed to death, not awesome), you're doing some of the best kind of link building possible.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
GA 4 Question
What differences are you typically seeing in Google Analytics 4 compared to UA? For one site I have, UA says there were 2,342 new users. GA4 says there were 1,899 new users for the same time period. Does that seem like a normal amount of difference between the two platforms?
Reporting & Analytics | | emilycarimus1 -
Attribution of conversions to payment gateway in Google Analytics
Hi all, We have been having a problem for a while now where most transactions are attributed to referrals from our payment gateway Sagepay. The issue started a couple of months ago, when we finally upgraded our website to https:// for logged in users and transactions. Before, when we were using http://, transactions were attributed to the correct channel. Even weirder, we upgraded 4 websites and only 2 of them have the issue now, the other two continue to attribute transactions correctly. I added Sagepay to the referral exclusion list which made no difference. Over the weekend, we upgraded to the global site tag and it seems to have improved somewhat, but yesterday 50% of transactions were still attributed to referral/sagepay. I am also seeing an odd issue, where for half of the transactions, the revenue and transaction are attributed to one channel, but the products (quantity) are attributed to another. One of the channels is always referral/sagepay and the other is the channel that the transaction should be attributed to. Has anyone seen this issue before? I'd appreciate any tips that might help us fix this issue. Thanks in advance!
Reporting & Analytics | | ViviCa10 -
Google Optimize via Google Tag manager not working properly
Hi All, I am using google optimize via tag manager. I have successfully implemented it and my experiment appeared in google analytic but google optimize chrome addon always give me add script not installed properly. How to solve solve error? Thanks!
Reporting & Analytics | | amu1230 -
Google Analytics: Multi channel funnel
Hi 🙂 I have a little problem. In Multi-channel Funnel Overview I see 50 conversions from Paid Search (screenshot 1). But when I click on Assisted Conversion and then choose Paid Search, I see 31 Assisted Conversions and 32 Last Interaction Conversion. (screenshot 2) So my question is - why the number of converstions in overview (50) is different than number in Assisted Conversions (assisted or last interaction conversion, or both together)? Probably, the answer is so simply, but I can found out it! 🙂 thanks a lot. X6UihL7.png lCNsw4T.png
Reporting & Analytics | | visibilitysk0 -
Google Analytics for multiple languages on multiple domains
Hi folks A quick question in regards to setting up Google Analytics for a website with multiple languages on multiple domains. The domains that needs to be tracked are: www.example.com -> English www.example.se -> Swedish www.example.dk -> Danish To my best knowledge this can be acheived in Google Analytids using 3 different setups: Different accounts Different properties Profiles What would you guys consider the best approach?
Reporting & Analytics | | Resultify
Pros and cons? Have a great day Fredrik0 -
Our SEO is garbage. can someone answer a few questions for me?
I've seen our SEO drop to more or less the bottom of the barrel, and I don't have any answers yet as to why. SEOMoz is running it's crawl currently, and I have a few errors about duplicate titles and content, so I know I have some work cut out for me. But, why the sudden drop? The only change I made at the time was a change to our URL structure, but all links were 301'd to their new location. Does this still hurt SEO that terribly? Also, our robots.txt file is getting indexed and showing up as the first result at times. Very embarrassing. It's doing better than our other pages. 😞 I don't get what's happening here. Yrzu3,fkbYu
Reporting & Analytics | | stagl0 -
A lot of traffic to one page from Google referral
We recently received a lot of traffic to one page from
Reporting & Analytics | | underthesun808
google.com referral. When I look in analytics it reports that the traffic is
coming from /url that’s not real helpful. Is there a way to get more specific
information as to what the referring url was?0 -
Google parameter
All Welcome! In the old interface, Google Analytics, you can find rare queries (organic traffic) in such a setting: ^ ([^] +) {5.50} [^] + $ (where 5.50 - spaces between words). As an option to use the new interface Google Analytics? This option does not work there?
Reporting & Analytics | | meteorr0