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(Entry was posted by Stefan Mustieles on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/30/2015).

Another Google`s animal

Similar to +Pawan Pawar I think a site I am working on may have an algorithmic penalty. Anyone care to take a look?
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  • Stefan Mustieles: Similar to +Pawan Pawar ;I think a site I am working on may have an algorithmic penalty. Anyone care to take a look?
  • Juchel De Leon: Let us see! :) +Stefan Mustieles ;
  • Stefan Mustieles: There was a link penalty a while back but this has since gone and there are no manual actions in search console
  • Juchel De Leon: +Stefan Mustieles I must say some part of your content in your blog are duplicate. did you double check that part of your site?
  • Stefan Mustieles: Which parts? Is it worth getting on a hangout?
  • Juchel De Leon: Also check the ff:
    1. Underscores in Links
    2. HTML Page Size
    3. Site Loading Speed
    4. IP Canonicalization
    5. Image alt

    check also those pages that are disallow ;search engines to crawl and why did you declare "canonical"? one more thing there's something incorrect with your schema, does it meet the standard format to have schema?.
  • Stefan Mustieles: Which parts of the blog have duplicate content? Working on getting the image alts in place. What you mean "why did you declare canonical?"
  • Juchel De Leon: cool!hope that could help you out! Let me ask you, do you have each page canonical within itself?
  • Stefan Mustieles: Yes, each page has a self referencing canonical. i'm thinking the issue could be an algorithmic link penalty though rather than any onsite technical issue
  • Juchel De Leon: +Stefan Mustieles i forgot to address your question about the duplicate content -- it was near to duplicate, i guess it's because how you used "category" i don't understand why you have to put "/1" after a category URL. maybe that's part of the conflict..just maybe. kindly check and look around this matter i suggest.
    :)
  • Neeraj Pandey: +Stefan Mustieles​ you don't have any penalty this is your ranking and you should focus to provide quality website to the users and earn some links but don't go for link building....
  • Jim Munro: Stefan's site is ;www.makeitcheaper(dot)com 
  • Jim Munro: Did your site commence falling after May of this year, +Stefan Mustieles ;?
  • Jim Munro: BTW, Your Trust Pilot reviews belong to the whole business but not every page. The only place for this is on the home page.

    If I were Google I would write some sort of punishment for sites who misled the public by getting the five stars for every page in the SERPs.

    Come to think of it, I think they might have already done it and made an announcement about it. :) ;

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/30/2015).