Ask HN: Please help me with seo. 600k player statistics are not getting indexed. • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Please help me with seo. 600k player statistics are not getting indexed.

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Post by smartwater » Thu, Aug 02, 2012, 8:40 PM UTC

mcorrientes wrote: post #6

Metatron wrote: post #2

You could try a re-inclusion request. State your mysterious problem and just frankly ask why and if there are any penalties or what you need to do to start ranking. However Google do take forever to do anything. And even if you are doing the right things already you may only see results in a matter of several weeks. Re-inclusion requests here (pretty much your only way to ask Google anything easily, but responses are…

Thanks for the advice, I'll try it over the re-inclusion request.

Don't do it. You're not banned.

Re: Ask HN: Please help me with seo. 600k player statistics are not getting indexed.

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Post by davidm » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 7:51 AM UTC

Your site seems to have quite a bit of duplicate content. In fact, every search I did showed other sites when I searched for long strings of text copied from your site.

Search Google for "Whenever Jarvan III, the king of Demacia, delivers one of his rallying speeches"

Re: Ask HN: Please help me with seo. 600k player statistics are not getting indexed.

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Post by reefoctopus » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 8:11 AM UTC

It looks like you are using links which use onclick events instead of a standard href. The 30+ javascript files included in the section suggest you might be using it in other places that you shouldn't be if your goal is SEO.

That, the bad text/html ratio, and the non-descriptive urls are what i see as the likely culprits. It looks like you have a good number of backlinks, and that that number is growing quickly.

Re: Ask HN: Please help me with seo. 600k player statistics are not getting indexed.

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Post by reefoctopus » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 8:12 AM UTC

mcorrientes wrote: post #6

Metatron wrote: post #2

You could try a re-inclusion request. State your mysterious problem and just frankly ask why and if there are any penalties or what you need to do to start ranking. However Google do take forever to do anything. And even if you are doing the right things already you may only see results in a matter of several weeks. Re-inclusion requests here (pretty much your only way to ask Google anything easily, but responses are…

Thanks for the advice, I'll try it over the re-inclusion request.

Do you have a google webmaster tools account? If you were being penalized for some reason (which i doubt), webmaster tools will inform you.

Re: Ask HN: Please help me with seo. 600k player statistics are not getting indexed.

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Post by mcorrientes » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 8:25 AM UTC

reefoctopus wrote: post #14

mcorrientes wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the advice, I'll try it over the re-inclusion request.

Do you have a google webmaster tools account? If you were being penalized for some reason (which i doubt), webmaster tools will inform you.

Thanks for mentioning it. I wasn't quite sure, but we're probably not penalized, so I haven't done a reconsideration request. Apparently it's now indexing slowly again.