Simple questions about SEO

[Divvy]

Hi guys,


Since I had a huge traffic drop in February, that I'm having difficulties in recovering it.
I tried almost everything, but without success.


I have some more things in mind, maybe someone can help me with that!? Or giving me some lights...




1- In google webmaster tools I have this message in "HTML Improvements". How to fix that?

We didn't detect any content issues with your site. As we crawl your site, we check it to detect any potential issues with content on your pages, including duplicate, missing, or problematic title tags or meta descriptions. These issues won't prevent your site from appearing in Google search results, but paying attention to them can provide Google with more information and even help drive traffic to your site. For example, title and meta description text can appear in search results, and useful, descriptive text is more likely to be clicked on by users.
Last updated Oct 24, 2013

I have the same website translated in 5 different languages. Could be this the reason of the message above? But I'm using this code:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="http://fr.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="http://pt.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://es.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="it" href="http://it.domain.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="http://ru.domain.com/" />

2- My website main page have lots of external links, should I use a nofollow tag to all of them? Could be this the reason of the traffic lost?




3- I have hundreds of affiliate links (urls with my id), and I use them like that:

http://www.domain.com/link/sitename.php

Could this harm my website traffic?
Here is the code inside the php file:

<?Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );Header( "Location: http://join.affiliate.com/track/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" );?>

Or is better to add the original URL instead of this 301 redirection?




Waiting for your replies and help, thank you guys!


Best regards

 

[msk19994]

google thinks of affiliate codes inside your php as malware so dont ever do that, u can post them in your content but never in coding

 

[Divvy]

Hi msk19994,

Thank you for your reply and for your help :-)
Can you help me with questions 1 and 2 too? Or someone else?

Thank you guys!

 

[Tijan15]

First, there are various reasons that your site might experience a drop with regard to traffic. You suggest three reasons that you suspect might be the reason this might occur. The problem is that in most cases the issue may have a lot to do with off-page optimization which deals with the kind of links and the quantity of links that you are pointing to your site. I am not quite sure that some of the reasons that you mention in your post could be the reason.

Your site could have been affected by updates that Google are rolling out in an ongoing basis.