Have you found any problems yet?
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 10:49 am
If you find many other correct copies, it's possible that they are causing problems.
The best description I've come up with for "Have you found a problem here?" is: Do you think Google is lumping together similar pages and only showing one? And if it is, is it picking up the wrong page?
It doesn't have to be just on traditional canada number data search. You can find a version of it on Google Jobs, Google News, etc.
To give an example, if you are a reseller, you may find that content is not ranking because there is another, more authoritative reseller who consistently posts the same listings first.
Sometimes you'll see it consistently and immediately, while other times the accumulation may change over time. In that case, you'll need a rank tracker to see it for whatever Google property you're working on.
Jon Earnshaw from Pi Datametrics gave an excellent talk on the latter (around questionable SERP flow) that is worth watching.
Once you find the problem, you'll probably need to experiment to figure out how to get around it, but the easiest factors to play with are usually:
De-duplication of content
Discovery speed (you can improve it by installing a 24-hour RSS feed of all new content that appears frequently)
Reducing syndication
8. Roundup of some other possible suspects
The best description I've come up with for "Have you found a problem here?" is: Do you think Google is lumping together similar pages and only showing one? And if it is, is it picking up the wrong page?
It doesn't have to be just on traditional canada number data search. You can find a version of it on Google Jobs, Google News, etc.
To give an example, if you are a reseller, you may find that content is not ranking because there is another, more authoritative reseller who consistently posts the same listings first.
Sometimes you'll see it consistently and immediately, while other times the accumulation may change over time. In that case, you'll need a rank tracker to see it for whatever Google property you're working on.
Jon Earnshaw from Pi Datametrics gave an excellent talk on the latter (around questionable SERP flow) that is worth watching.
Once you find the problem, you'll probably need to experiment to figure out how to get around it, but the easiest factors to play with are usually:
De-duplication of content
Discovery speed (you can improve it by installing a 24-hour RSS feed of all new content that appears frequently)
Reducing syndication
8. Roundup of some other possible suspects