Does google check content or the design also of the sites?

tenzin · 08-23-2007, 10:00 PM

hi everyone!!!
our client has a site with two domain names. both the domains have exactly the same content. yeah, ok, its ok if u call us spammers.
so, with the recent dropping of our site i have found that the duplicate site is much ahead of the original site(which is being submitted to directories and all). infact, the original site comes in omitted results only. and, just now, i read somewhere that, google has been doing this, ie placing the duplicate content first, that too with very low rankings in SERP. so, what should i do here? change the duplicate site. but is changine only the content enough? or should i change the design also? or should i change design only(must not be)?

alex-party · 08-24-2007, 01:50 AM

Hey tenzin,
Design and colors could stay the same, but changing text and meta tags is important, so they would seem as two different web sites, each having it's own group of targeted users. This way google easily diverts traffic to one or another site according to closest search match.

Regards,

tenzin · 08-24-2007, 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alex-party

Hey tenzin,
Design and colors could stay the same, but changing text and meta tags is important, so they would seem as two different web sites, each having it's own group of targeted users. This way google easily diverts traffic to one or another site according to closest search match.

Regards,

thanks alex!! u have made my job much easier... now, first thing i'll do is change those meta tags. to change the content is bit difficult. so, that i'll do later.

alex-party · 08-24-2007, 02:10 AM

Thank you for asking questions, this way I learn with you.

If you want to know how Google bot "see" your page, just search for "google bot simulator" and test your page in that program, all you will see is pure text and html. I just quickly found one here: View a Web Page as 'Googlebot'
Enjoy,

tenzin · 08-24-2007, 02:20 AM

i checked it and my site has a lot of big red 404 page not found errors. thou when i use xenu, there is no such broken links

alex-party · 08-24-2007, 02:34 AM

Hmm, that may be a flaw in their web program, maybe try another simulator.

Luck,

x3mario · 08-24-2007, 10:32 AM

It's a cool bot simulator.

zagu060807 · 08-24-2007, 11:10 AM

Google checks even the code of each page, that is why webmasters say you use css or tabled (for better results use divs) for coding. Designs are just nothing because google spiders the content, not the images.

x3mario · 08-25-2007, 06:16 AM

Images I think will be crawled if there is/are also text but usually bots crawled text in your content.

zagu060807 · 08-25-2007, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by x3mario

Images I think will be crawled if there is/are also text but usually bots crawled text in your content.

Yes, but only the alt tags within the images, not the image design itself.

08-23-2007, 10:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
tenzin Senior Googler Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 130 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Does google check content or the design also of the sites? hi everyone!!! our client has a site with two domain names. both the domains have exactly the same content. yeah, ok, its ok if u call us spammers. so, with the recent dropping of our site i have found that the duplicate site is much ahead of the original site(which is being submitted to directories and all). infact, the original site comes in omitted results only. and, just now, i read somewhere that, google has been doing this, ie placing the duplicate content first, that too with very low rankings in SERP. so, what should i do here? change the duplicate site. but is changine only the content enough? or should i change the design also? or should i change design only(must not be)?

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08-24-2007, 01:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
alex-party Elite Googler Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,085 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Hey tenzin, Design and colors could stay the same, but changing text and meta tags is important, so they would seem as two different web sites, each having it's own group of targeted users. This way google easily diverts traffic to one or another site according to closest search match. Regards,

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alex-party Elite Googler Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,085 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Thank you for asking questions, this way I learn with you. If you want to know how Google bot "see" your page, just search for "google bot simulator" and test your page in that program, all you will see is pure text and html. I just quickly found one here: View a Web Page as 'Googlebot' Enjoy,

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tenzin Senior Googler Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 130 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	i checked it and my site has a lot of big red 404 page not found errors. thou when i use xenu, there is no such broken links

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alex-party Elite Googler Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,085 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Hmm, that may be a flaw in their web program, maybe try another simulator. Luck,

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x3mario Master Googler Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Gems Collection Posts: 557 Thanks: 0 Thanked 14 Times in 13 Posts	It's a cool bot simulator.

08-24-2007, 11:10 AM	#8 (permalink)
zagu060807 Googler Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 81 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Google checks even the code of each page, that is why webmasters say you use css or tabled (for better results use divs) for coding. Designs are just nothing because google spiders the content, not the images.

08-25-2007, 06:16 AM	#9 (permalink)
x3mario Master Googler Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Gems Collection Posts: 557 Thanks: 0 Thanked 14 Times in 13 Posts	Images I think will be crawled if there is/are also text but usually bots crawled text in your content.

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