Hey John,

In our experience, sites that use product descriptions pulled from Amazon or the manufacturer tend not to rank as well. It sounds like you have the right length of 500+ words per page in mind, but without your own original descriptions as the content, there could be a duplicate content issue (same words on two different sites) where your site is not the original source for those product descriptions.

If it’s not feasible for you to create so many original descriptions, consider making them for your best performing, most profitable products and/or pages that are still ranking to maintain their ranks. You can look into whether to use the rel=canonical attribute on all of your product pages that pull their text from other sites. Also, you can add additional non-sales page content to your site to try and rank as an entrance to your store. It does seem like the main issue, however, is too many pages with content present on other sites.

Some initial ideas based on my general SEO knowledge, but I personally don’t have a lot of experience with this particular issue you’re dealing with. So I do recommend seeking additional advice.

Hi, I meant it used to rank well somewhat, for just copied content from amazon and clickbank products… used these 2 plugins (WP Robot and CB Goliath) from the very beginning to add products from amazon (500+ words), and clickbank (350-500+ words posts) — and a plugin that adds comments from yahoo answers..
and later an rss feed items (less than 300 words posts)..

Thanks Ziev.

Hi John,

When you say there are 900+ posts, are those posts that were there before the plugins, or posts that were created by the plugins?

Without knowing further details, my inclination is to tell you that since your stats were better before the plugins, I would test removing those plugins.

I wouldn’t delete any high-quality posts off of your site. I would only advise deleting “thin content” – pages with very minimal content on them or duplicate. I’m unable to consult further here but please get in touch with us at https://www.thehoth.com/meet if you’d like one of our SEO specialists to assist in fixing your site before you try anything else!

Please I need your urgent help, my website has been hit badly by google and others, I made a mistake (well it used to work before) by using 2 plugins that pull amazon and clickbank products (and others) to my blog (maybe a thin affiliate site?) .. there are 900+ posts , and I’ve started lately to add high quality unique articles..

I’m wondering, should I delete all these posts? or should I continue adding new high quality articles to my 10 year old site.. not sure but maybe G and bing will re-index these old posts after adding some quality content , and maybe my site will appear again on the first pages !!

google is showing 169 results when I search site:mydomain.com , but showing only 4 pages (38 links).. bing shows 349 Results

I’ve been doing other things actually in the last 5 years, this was a hobby/part time business.. and now I’m back full time online, so I really appreciate any help regarding this issue..

Thanks a lot.

You’re welcome 🙂