Recent content by Silverbird

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    PANDA has taken away most of my traffic. What should I do?

    Thank you to the others as well for your helpful suggestions. Maybe, as you say CJD, the PANDA update has been a blessing in disguise.
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    PANDA has taken away most of my traffic. What should I do?

    So I have put "site:hummingbirdbooks.co.uk" into Google and it shows that it is listing 772 pages, which sounds about the same as before (and no, I haven't been doing anything I shouldn't). Sorry to be asking all these questions, but also not sure how to check whether they have fallen "way down...
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    PANDA has taken away most of my traffic. What should I do?

    Thank you for your reply davek17. I don't know how to check whether my site has been sandboxed, or indeed penalised in any other way, than taking away the Google traffic. Would Google have informed me by automated email? I do have a Wordpress blog which is integrated into the site. Do links...
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    PANDA has taken away most of my traffic. What should I do?

    Thanks very much everyone. I guess that I haven't really been looking at it through Google's eyes. As far as I was concerned, I had created (with the children's help) a really useful directory of the best children's books(which has taken months and months of work to identify) , but all Google...
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    PANDA has taken away most of my traffic. What should I do?

    Thank you both of you, for your thoughts. Yes, the duplicate content is something it looks as if I need to sort out, although this will mean hundreds of hours of work, for the 400 or so products on the site. As for the affiliate links,that is how we have intentionally set it up to operate. I...
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    PANDA has taken away most of my traffic. What should I do?

    Seems I can't post my URL as I have not made 15 posts on UK business forums. So Google is probably our only option. My site is <removed>
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    PANDA has taken away most of my traffic. What should I do?

    I am a primary school teacher who runs a children's book website, where children recommend all the books. I work hard to put really useful content on the site and it is well received by my customers. However, the latest PANDA update has taken away virtually all my search engine traffic and...
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    Website Information

    I am a sole trader.Could anyone tell me what contact information I have to put on my website? Do I have to put my name, my address and my telephone number? As I run a small business from home, these are my home address and my personal telephone number and as I increase my web presence...