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I just do not understand something that seems to happen every quarter. After the last link update at the beginning of August, Google seemed to take to my Article Directory Moxie Drive Expressions at http://www.moxie-drive.com/articles/ . It was back up to the 200-500 visits per day that has occurred at the beginning of a Google quarter. I had made some changes to title/description and Google was picking up more of the articles in this directory than ever before because all the duplicate titles and descriptions were now unique. About 1.5 months into the quarter, the floor drops out and traffic to this article nears zero (0). I call this the "Google tease". I suspect this is a duplicate content filter that is filtering the same article between article directories, but I like it just fine when the filter seems to be not in use. Also, when I look up the keywords from Analytics and see the article title with a good description in Moxie Drive Expressions, I rarely see a duplicate from another site. Like I said, this has happened 3 times since January. I find it very frustrating. So do my readers. 2. My second inquiry to Google I have averaged 200 visits a day since 8/20/2006. On 9/12 I got 90 and 9/15 I got 53. This seems to be a permanent trend. What is going on with Google? http://www.moxie-drive.com/articles/, otherwise called Moxie Drive Expressions, has dropped off the face of the Google map...the day before I added a related articles section. I do not understand this behavior at all. My story is going to be from riches to rags if this keeps going on. 3. A response from "Spanner" (from Google?) If you are unwilling to change your content to remove duplicate content then what do you expect us to do? There is no sence in improving a site that will never rank well. You could be totally right about teh dup content, but that means you have to address it, not ignore it. 4. My response to Spanner Hey Spanner, Thanks for the reply. I think you will find this to be a problem with all the article directories. this is because the author's continue to submit the same article to hundreds of article directories. Who is to tell which one is the original? I certainly cannot tell when looking at the search results for a particular title. Even Ezine Articles suffers from this problem. When it was still on, they had thousands of articles in supplemental. You going to tell them to do the same thing? The authors really need to be responsible for this, not the article directory. I may as well clean out my entire collection if what you are saying is the correct course of action. 5. My real response How the hell do you expect me, only one person who wants to run a simple article directory, to manage, monitor, or otherwise clean up the mess that has been, and continues to be made? I have only about 2500 articles that I would have to check at the moment, one at a time, to see if it has already been published and shows up in the Google index. I guess Google will continue to decide that Ezine Articles has the original copy and to hell with the rest of us. I don't think Google is doing any of the article directories any favors. Last time I noticed, even Ezine Articles started showing up in supplemental results close to a thousand articles into a Google site search. That means that all of the rest of their articles are duplicates and in supplemental. Ludicrious. Labels: google
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One last note. If an author is only going to be required to submit an article to one and only one article directory, then the little guys are going to go out of business, period. What is the sense of having an article directory? Maybe an unfair practices class action suit is in the works?
6:35 PM
One more point for Mr. Spanner:
According to SEODigger.com My home page ranks well, that is in the first 20, for over 2000 keyword search terms. And I did it in about a year and a half. Can't say I don't know what I am doing.
It is the submission of the same article to multiple article directories, sometimes in the hundreds of article directories, and the treatment of these multiple submissions by Google that is the problem.
The article directories are being treated like the MFA, made for adsense, sites.
1:06 PM
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