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I have a Twitter account linked to my WordPress site so that each tweet becomes a new post.
I was wondering why my SEO was hurting and when I looked at the source I saw stuff like this at the top of the page:
Los Conchita & # 8 2 1 7 ; s on Prince has V & # 8 2 3 0 ;
Has anyone else had this problem and know why it is occurring? Thanks!
The site is reviewathens.com
Search engines penalize for duplicate content that they think by default to be redundant or spam. Some sites attempt to spam by copying text off of other sites ranked highly in search engines, but this will get you flagged. So if you just have an rss reader or something similar that copies every post over that could have a bad impact. Maybe search engines associate the keywords in your recent posts with undesirable content. It wouldn't hurt to run your page through the w3 validator to tidy up the code, if you haven't done so already.
If you're using a plug-in on WordPress to retrieve the tweets, it could be the plug-in or its settings. It could also be the alpha-numerics that you're using. Sometimes the "&" sign does not get carried over well. Instead of using "&" use "and" Try using more letters than symbols and numbers.
