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rpurple  
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(1 user)  More options Aug 21 2008, 8:22 pm
From: rpurple
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:22:10 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Aug 21 2008 8:22 pm
Subject: SUDDENLY MOST PAGES NOT SHOWING up in GOOGLE SEARCH

Hi,

Thanks  for reading this.

My site http://purplemedicalblog.blogspot.com is a Google Blogger
hosted site that has been published for several years with a fairly
good page rank.

Suddenly about 1 1/2 weeks ago the site, Purple Medical Blog dropped
out from almost all Google searches for most topics.  Even the term,
"medical blog", for which it usually appeared in the top 3 or 4 not
far from Kevin M.D, started returning nothing. Yet sites with lower
page rank and sites that were not even medical blogs such as "medical
transcription blog" or commercial lawyer's medical malpractice blogs
do.

 About the only way to find the blog on Google is to search for
"purple medical" or the whole name. Almost nothing else will show up
except searches for images. I am still receiving people searching for
images.

I tried to figure out why this could have happened. Robots txt? I have
no control over robots txt on Google Blogger. I do see on the
Webmaster tools that there is a robots txt but apparently that is for
labels. Posting on Blogger forum they say the robots txt is not
different than others. On Google Blogger you dont   have any control
over robots txt.

I did find another site on the Internet that has copied many of my
posts word for word  with pictures and even the style and headlines. I
really don't know what I could do about that. In any event I thought
Google index can differentiate between original and copies.

I looked at Webmaster tools. There are no warnings or anything. I have
tried changing my template to a new template but no difference. Since
there is no direct correspondence permitted I am really at a loss how
to proceed.

I really admire Google. I think they do great things. But I have to
admit this is quite depressing. That blog is the result of lots of
effort ( as I am sure many blogs are) and gives people  easy to
understand information about health issues and medicine which could
help some people find new and useful things that would help them.

Thanks


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Robbo  
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 More options Aug 21 2008, 8:50 pm
From: Robbo
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:50:26 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Aug 21 2008 8:50 pm
Subject: Re: SUDDENLY MOST PAGES NOT SHOWING up in GOOGLE SEARCH

I glanced over the first 100 results from your site and they almost
all have title that begin [purple medical blog]. For some that's the
whole title.

Every page should have an informative, relevant and differentiated
title.

Either move [purple medical blog] to the END of the title or remove it
altogether from every page other than, maybe, the homepage.


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Robbo  
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 More options Aug 21 2008, 8:56 pm
From: Robbo
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:56:56 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Aug 21 2008 8:56 pm
Subject: Re: SUDDENLY MOST PAGES NOT SHOWING up in GOOGLE SEARCH

 Results 1 - 100 of about 1,820 from purplemedicalblog.blogspot.com

Quality is more important than quantity!   I'd be very surprised if
you cannot "get your message across" with less than 1800 pages.

Google sees 1800 pages but is only willing to show about 400 or so.

So try site:purplemedicalblog.blogspot.com
and then go and have a look at the last 100 results.   Disappointing
isn't it!  But that is how your site presents.


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rpurple  
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 More options Aug 21 2008, 10:18 pm
From: rpurple
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:18:48 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Aug 21 2008 10:18 pm
Subject: Re: SUDDENLY MOST PAGES NOT SHOWING up in GOOGLE SEARCH

Thank You for your input. When I publish a new post I just put in the
title of the topic, example, if I wrote about  high blood pressure
and diabetes, it  might be  What is the Connection Between High Blood
Pressure and Diabetes. I never write Purple Medical Blog in the
title.. Google blogger does that each time. But nothing in that is
new. I have been doing the same method for years.

As for Quality, the overwhelming majority of articles have unique
content and have links to science and medical papers and videos. Some
posts are shorter some longer. Purple Medical Blog is listed in the
dmoz open directory under health news as well as linked to by a number
of high quality medical sites such as Healthedia and Medical News
Today that link to the site. Other medical blogs such as Dr. David's
Blog, written by a Johns Hopkins Medical School Oncology Specialist
(pediatric cancer specifically), have mentioned it and linked to it.

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have linked to it from
time to time. It has been mentioned in a magazine article about
blogs.  Nothing that I have done is different to my
knowledge.Certainly not in the past few weeks. It just happened out of
the blue. Searches for terms for which it appeared on the first or
second or third page for a long time have simply stopped showing it.
Something else is going on.

At least ninety five percent of the titles are totally unique. Since
they are different topics. Even related topics don't have the same
titles. Example there could be High Blood Pressure and Anger, High
Blood Pressure and Diabetes, How to Reduce your Blood Pressure.

No something else is going on and it started one and half weeks ago.
I'd like a Google Employee to please look at it.

Thanks

On Aug 21, 7:56 pm, Robbo wrote:


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ULTRON  
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 More options Oct 8 2008, 11:41 am
From: ULTRON
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 08:41:24 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Oct 8 2008 11:41 am
Subject: Re: SUDDENLY MOST PAGES NOT SHOWING up in GOOGLE SEARCH
rpurple, your blog lacks an archives page. If you don't have a valid
archives page, Googlebot doesn't know about your older posts and they
keep getting dropped from the search engine (although an archives page
is still not enough to maintain a pagerank).
Second, your blog lacks organization. You need to have a proper page
structure - like a header, content, and a footer. Since millions of
websites go online every day, Googlebot tends to filter out websites
without certain parameters, and bad webdesign is one of them.
Third, it's always good to have a W3C validated page.
Webdesign is an active process; you need to update your design
regularly. You cannot simply design, then sit back and expect it to
keep rising in ranks.

Regards,

RG
www.rahulgladwin.com

On Aug 21, 9:18 pm, rpurple wrote:


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bluegill01  
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 More options Oct 8 2008, 11:57 am
From: bluegill01
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 08:57:05 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Oct 8 2008 11:57 am
Subject: Re: SUDDENLY MOST PAGES NOT SHOWING up in GOOGLE SEARCH
Most importantly look up some of your pages on copyscape or some
similar program.  You have lots of either duplicate or duplicated
content.  Google has been cracking down on this as of late.  Stick to
adding quality, unique content and you will do much better.  Lots of
ezines have tons of duplicate content and watch how lately many are
losing PR and traffic.  Google only wants so many copies or rewrites
of the same content.

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