Proefabonnement
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Posted 9 months ago #
I have one site - opproef.nl - which has a really strange history seo-wise. For 2 years now the site is bouncing up and down in serps. I didn't experience this with one of my 60 other sites in such an extreme way, but I can't figure out what the problem is.
One possible thing is that we are predating new posts because we want certaing posts to stay on the index. My question is, if this could possibly be bad seo wise? If yes, is there a solution like removing all dates or something?
Hope to hear some answers from seo experts..thanks in advance!
Predating ... you mean after a post is published, you change the date to re-post it?
Yeah, don't do that. If you need it to stay in the index, make it a sticky.
Proefabonnement
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Posted 9 months ago #
Yeah thats what I meant indeed. But the problem is I already did a lot of predating. What do you think, if I don't do it anymore from now on and work with sticky posts it will help or the damage is already done?
I think you shouldn't bump your posts for one ;)
If the damage is done, it's done, and the best way to fix it is as you said: Move forward doing the RIGHT thing :) Google will eventually cycle around.
Proefabonnement
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Posted 9 months ago #
Jeez, that was a genuine question. I was thinking of starting a completely new site on the same domain if necessary so that's why I asked that. Can I thank you for your answer or does that also count as post bump?
The winky face was meant to take the edge off (the no bumping thing is listed in the forum welcome: http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome )
It doesn't matter if you're starting over or not. You did it, it's done. and now you have to go forward doing it right. EVEN IF you delete everything, Google will keep a CACHE of everything. It does that. The cache will fade in time as new posts are made. So you're okay, just go forward.
