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I looked a few times and am not sure what you're referring to...you want to attach a screen shot?

It depends, in part, on whether what you're seeing is a manual penalty or an algorithmic update that is causing your site to rank lower. Often times with Penguin updates, what looks like a penalty is actually just that a lot of the links pointing to a site have been devalued and are no longer passing juice. This is definitely something that can affect your whole domain, if there are enough inbound links to enough different pages on your site that have all been devalued. Subdomains won't be immune to this effect. However, as Michael points out below, losses from Penguin are usually more page/keyword specific, so you won't necessarily see your whole domain/subdomains hit. With a manual penalty, whether or not the subdomain is hit depends on whether or not it shares the low quality signals that got the main domain hit. I certainly wouldn't recommend isolating black-hat practices on a subdomain, however; a penalty on a subdomain CAN affect other subdomains and the main domain, but it doesn't always do so. It's something to keep an eye on.

You shouldn't be focusing blog posts on specific keywords at all. Blog posts are best for long tail terms, so it doesn't matter how many you write. If you start writing multiple on one topic that is a head term you are shooting for, then you should have a category page for all of those, and that is the page that should rank for the head term.

Sitelinks are "earned" with a high quality site that communicates brand trust and where Google determines "these pages are the most visited pages".  Having proper information architecture and navigational breadcrumbs (RDFa or Schema) can sometimes help because they reinforce content relationships, however they're not required to obtain sitelinks.

Paddy, Thanks for clarifying. My mum is indeed very nice. If we replace "my mom's blog" with "a slightly less trusted site, but still very similar in scale, topic, age, etc..." then you can see where it gets more difficult to base the decision on which has been crawled first. But yes, I agree that being the first page crawled and indexed with that content must be a huge (though I think trust-based metrics would be more important) factor in the decision by Google's ranking algorithms.

For the sake of this argument, I have a website where there were some 120-150 spammy links created. Basically I see a ton of low quality bookmarking sites who are somewhat scraping content of each other. Very few anchor text names and those are taken from authority sites in the niche as well, the others (some 80% of them) are direct domain name anchor text links to the site in question now. So, would any of you recommend adding all those links into the disavow tool if nothing is happening in terms of penalties or ranking changes now? I am having a lot of opposite opinions about this matter. Thanks!

Hi Barame - Did Mark answer your question? Cheers, Christy

"An SEO Company from India doing articles" That is a BIG warning sign. My guess is that you've got a bunch of low quality spammy links pointing to your site. Another thing to check on is your anchor text distribution as well. Make sure it's not over 10-20% for your main keyword.

Hi OOMDO, I'm afraid I am not understanding what you are describing, particularly this sentence: "let's say one of those cities ends up being outside of the state though for another landing page, then it usually ends up on page two." Typically, city landing pages target one city per page, but this does not sound like what you are describing. Please, provide further details if you can. Thanks!

Although both pages are very similar sans the logo color and some verbiage, if we do the rel canonical from GoCentrix->CallRingTalk.com then CallRingTalk.com will be the preferred site for indexing? ** Yes. You can also add rel canonical to it self on  CallRingTalk.com. Lastly, will having had the duplicate content for some time now have any sort of lasting effect on our potential ranking once we implement the canonicalization? ** No, you are more then safe. This rel canonical will only help google understand what is your preferred version and it will display it accordantly. Overall the only downside of duplicate content is that Google might show in serps the version that is teh secondary as importance in your opinion - but there is no algorithmic or manual filter / penalty for this even if you don't implement rel canonical. Hope it helps.

Thank you. This makes complete sense, some great recommendations for making the old pages have some on-going purpose.

Bram, This would dilute your h1 affect, but it would be so minute it is not something to worry about. Something like 'I am looking for a holiday home in Germany' would dilute even more but still nothing that would substantially affect your influence in Google. Hope this helps

I would like to point out that you need to know the other side of story as well. I claim and back it up that it is SEO friendly, a good 75% there. missing 25%. See this thread and this thread and ESPECIALLY read the comments sections wix has a public relations and communcations problem, and minor SEO/dev issues which are basically expected to be resolved at some point. they HAVE THE ESSENTIALS in place quite solidly for SEO.

Agree with everything although I understood a 301 gives a very slight shave off the optimum link value, but the benefits in terms of user experience and keyworded URLs outweigh that. I'm a fan of Fiddler for watching header responses.

Thanks John.

Thanks Guys, Great answers.

Hi John, well that is exactly the topic most of the SEO's are fighting about: But in all honesty nobody really found the holy grail yet. If it's backlinks, content, likes on Facebook or whatever every so called expert swears in his methods. So, I just come round and share my experience with you and what works best for me and my clients. That doesn't mean that it'll work for you at all; On-Page I think content is king No keyword stuffing, just a text which is full of information for the visitor and easy to read AND understand. Google (as you can measure on Analytics) recognises and records the time a visitor spends on your page. This is an important factor in my eyes as a visitor who is not interested in your information/services etc. won't spend 5+ Minutes on your page, would he? Furthermore, good quality content shares easy. Interested visitors are sharing good stuff, logical. And visitors turn into buying customers if you convince them from your expertise and quality. Off-Page It's no secret that in regard to backlinks the factor quality counts way way more than quantity. When I create backlinks I take care that they are organic and from a blog, directory, website etc. from the same business branch as the website I am optimizing. A website with an anchor backlink in a blog post of a high PR and High DA blog counts thousandd times better than 10.000 bought backlinks for whatever $ 29.99 Bottom Line So my opinion is that ranking builds on logical factors. Google measures the quality which comes in (backlinks), how it comes in and what is in it at the end (content). If it's all on a high level it returns into sales/leads or whatever aswell as higher rankings. Hope I could give you an idea and it helps, Mickey

Thanks mememax. I got it now. The problem is that I have only one htaccess file. www.piensapiensa.es and www.piensapiensa.com (the two domains) show the same web there's only one site, one CMS, Wordpress. Thanks again for your time.

I seem to agree with everyone else.  You definitely want people to remember you for what you are and who you are.  That's why you want to use the same image across all networks.