google webmaster tools

[hotaruuser]

Hi there!

I discovered the webmaster tools few weeks ago, and there are some strange things.

Firstly, by the keywords.


1. voted (4 variants)
2. post (5 variants)
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4. bookmarked
5. dec
6. bookmarked
7. share (3 variants)
8. comments (3 variants)
9. read (3 variants)
10. ago
11. duplicate
12. inappropriate
13. lame
14. views (2 variants)
15. tweet
16. spam

Is this normal? The first 16 keywords has nothing to do with the content of my site, except the third one. How does this happen? On my site the comments are only for registered, the articles can be normally read. Especially why is there such words as lame and duplicate? The articles itself do not have these words in them.

And then about the section of "your site in the web" -> "links to your site" and then "how your data is linked" looks like this:


spam
really lame
inappropriate
duplicate
wrong category

Why is this so? I use hotaru as a bookmarking site, for news and articles, but there are some self-written content too, but not much. Thats a bookmarking page...

I tried to google for it and look in the help sections of google webmaster tools, but I could not really find anything why this is so...

Any help would be great!!

[frytec]

Maybe the google havent crawled enough information. Give it some more days and check again.
Also check the section "Who links the most" to see who linked your site with the anchors found in "How your data is linked". Maybe you can figure out something.

[ashoksharmaz87]

Its normal, I am using webmaster tool since more than one year and still showing the same type of data

[romancos]

Hi there!

I discovered the webmaster tools few weeks ago, and there are some strange things.

Firstly, by the keywords.



Is this normal? The first 16 keywords has nothing to do with the content of my site, except the third one. How does this happen? On my site the comments are only for registered, the articles can be normally read. Especially why is there such words as lame and duplicate? The articles itself do not have these words in them.

And then about the section of "your site in the web" -> "links to your site" and then "how your data is linked" looks like this:



Why is this so? I use hotaru as a bookmarking site, for news and articles, but there are some self-written content too, but not much. Thats a bookmarking page...

I tried to google for it and look in the help sections of google webmaster tools, but I could not really find anything why this is so...

Any help would be great!!

Well, you must understand how robots see your site. Try browsing it with text browsers like lynx and see what you get. I'm not surprised if you get these links too and this is exactly how robots see your search terms.

[PuckRobin]

Google penalizes duplicate content. If you have page content that is exact duplicate of some other pages on the Internet, Google will simply ignore those content. Try to enrich your pages with original content on the sidebar and with user comments.

The link thing shows how your website is linked using anchors, but Google does not show the source of the links. You can find it in Yahoo Site Explorer (now Bing Webmaster Tools).

You can make some backlinking work to establish your own links and anchor texts. I mean, you need to do (or pay) some basic SEO :rolleyes:

[hotaruuser]

Thank you all for your answers!

Yes, most of the articles are duplicate content, but never the whole article, always a short text and then a link to the article. I try to add to the articles some own text. But does not any bookmarking sites have the same problem? Do google not recognize bookmarking sites different?

(For now I have the user comments not for google readable, I'd rather not change this)

And, yes I know about the robots. For me, the most important thing are the users, not the robots. I do not want a first page googlerank, I hope just, if people search for special things, that they find the articles on my page.

But, what I do not understand, the "how your data is linked" sections seems to me like a evaluation, that my site is "really lame" and "spam". Have somebody really linked my site and wrote in the anchor "this is spam" ?

I will try the bing webmaster tools also...

[frytec]

i dont know if u noticed, but spam, really lame, inappropriate, duplicate and wrong category are the "marks" or "alerts" from Alerts Plugin.

and no, that does not means someone linked your site with anchor "this is spam", means more like, someone link your site with whatever anchor, and google followed the link and generated keywords for the most relevant words on your site.

[hotaruuser]

Thank you so much, omg thats of course not nice. The alerts are annoying anywhere, since its a little site and I check all post by myself anyway.

But there are no such "alert plugin", do you mean the vote plugin? It has an option Enable Alerts (i.e. flag / bury). Alerts are only used on "new" posts, maybe you mean this? I deactivated it.

About the keyword "vote"... How could I prevent google to think this is a relevant keyword? I do not want to disable the vote plugin

[frytec]

you are right, its the vote plugin, alerts feature.

you can think about "relevant" words as "most used" words. That explains why "vote" becomes a keyword for your site (it has lots of occurrences on the page).

i think you dont need to avoid any words of being a google keyword, more keywords you have, more your site will appear on searchs.