Dropping Old Site After Too Many Penalties. What Do You Think About the New One?
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I finally decided to drop my website after it kept losing traffic even though I spent hundreds of hours and lots of $$$ trying to recover from both Panda and Penguin. I should've started a new website a lot earlier.
So here's my new website, let me know if it's worthy of Big G: http://www.webhostinghero.com/
Thank you in advance for your constructive comments!
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I would not worry much about them as I don't see anything really egregious. Alan makes a good point on the broken links. I did not see them (again it was cursory).
Best to you both.
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I had a quick look, your site crawls ok, but I did find 65 broken links, most pointing to http://www.webhostinghero.com/tools/' These are all wasting PR.
I also saw that you no indexed a lot of pages, but you marked them follow, that is good
A few titles and descriptions too long. and few other problems in small numbers.
For a wordpress site you have done a good job, most wordpress sites I have crawled are a mess.
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The .ca website has been shutdown in early May so these links aren't there anymore.
As for the other links, I hope they won't hurt the website as they've been built by the previous domain owner. I tried contacting the referring websites but without success.
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We use Ahrefs.com as that shows links much earlier than GWMT. I will pm you a couple of screen shots. But an example is that on April 15 your .ca showed up with 500+ links all nofollowed.
You do have a few poor sites linking to you but I do not think they will necessarily hurt you in aggregate. Some are already 404 on the link to you.
Hope that helps,
Robert
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Hi Robert,
What do you mean "the link profile"? The website barely has any backlinks, no?
That said, there are lots of things missing, I just wanted to have the minimum to launch the website as it won't get lots of traffic in the beginning. There's going to be a full hosting directory and we have lots user reviews to publish.
Thank your for comments!
Stephane
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Stephane,
Typically I don't respond to these type questions because they are a two-edged sword, but it's late and maybe no one will see it.
First, I like the layout of the site and the fact you appear to be striving toward a reference type site for hosting questions (this is a practice we use with certain clients we have but not for ads per se.) Your content is fresh, original, and well written with the caveat I did a reasonable but cursory check.
The UI/UX is good for a reference site on the whole, but you might rethink the menu structure toward making it a bit more "problem tabs" versus Home, About, Services, Archives, etc. (Again, partially a bias by me and partially looking at if I came here to find info on a hosting issue, I would want to get to that.)
Your link profile first scared me when I saw the big jump, but saw they were all no followed from your .ca. The anchor text seems reasonable as well. You could do with a bit better meta descriptions in some areas and your title tags follow the convention of branding first one time then branding last the next which is just not something I like to see. Understand that by doing the onpage when it is created, you help yourself out.I understand you are selling other hosting services from the site and that seems to negate having more info on selling the hosting yourself. So, on the whole I think it is a good beginning for you.
Going after the WP community is a good idea.
Best,
Robert
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