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this is somenting I would love to know more!-) I think news and updates, maybe a blog in your site can make google "feel" it has to come back more times to refresh your site again ( "hum dude, they are doing something there)...  Links to your site and to new articles in social media could help a lot. If you find anything let us know!-)

High five, happy to help! What do I win? Just kidding

OMG, looks like there are results all over the web with those links. See: https://www.google.com/search?q=allinurl%3A%26tag%3Dvebidoo_com-21 I'd suggest you make sure yourdomain.com/randomurl.html contains a canonical to itself. That way, if somebody links to yourdomain.com/randomurl.html&tag=vebidoo_com-21, Google will ignore it. You can also add it as a ignore parameter in your Google and Bing Webmaster Console. I hope this helps.

Thanks for the response John.  That makes sense.

No I don't think you should worry about this at all. Yes, link juice is passing to those social media sites but this is a good thing. This does not affect your PR by any means, it just means what juice that has entered your site will also enter (at a degenerated rate) the social pages. But that doesn't mean the link juice passing on is decreasing the juice that originally came to your site.. Does this make sense? Link juice is a confusing concept. It drips into your site, and then drips into external links, but that drip doesn't empty your pool... bah. I think the juice reference is what's confusing about this because why wouldn't juice move on and leave?! But it doesn't. In other words, let juice flow to your social media pages. That's a good thing. It means those pages will start to rank better as well further promoting your brand. Especially for a company like yours where I think you could really capitalize from a strong/hip social media presence. As for having the repeat links... It's really up to you. Clearly, as I said, your site is heavily reliant on social media so perhaps it makes sense. Google Analytics can tell you where people are clicking..perhaps you should look at that and see if people are actually clicking your footer links. But I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about this it isn't going to penalize you by any means. **This is all just my humble opinion. (I feel like that should be my signature heretofore)

As you already probably know, begin (or continue) the pursuit of valuable (high pr--or at least contextual relevant) inbound links. This is one of the most important factors in getting back on top.

Thanks Richard! Glad it'e been helpful. I think I'll be doing a WP Mozinar beginning of June too as we've found the community just has tons of WP questions.

Unfortunately we can't use subcategories.

How do I know if I was penalized by google? in google search some links are from .com domain and some from .in domain. I would like only .com domain to be indexed. you can check  geekwik.com and geekwik.in thanks

I found the problem myself. My site is under cloudflare, and apparently they were blocking the IP requesting the favicon file. As a fix, I added the favicon to the CDN (which does not go through cloudflare) and the issue is now fixed.

I submitted a reconsideration request but it was denied. I'm still trying to find out where those bad links are cause I did a hell of a job at cleaning bad links and disavowing those I couldn't get removed. I must have missed a handful of links and I'm trying to find them but in the meantime, the website is still penalized. Basically, I have strong doubt that any small website ever recovers from a Penguin penalty so I'm wondering if I'm wasting my money by maintaining this site.

Hi there, In order to increase your rankings in German speaking search results it's recommended that you: Use the rel="alternate" hreflang="de" tag, as specified here by Google in order to inform them that this content is in German and targeted to these users. Build links from specific German speaking websites, from blogs, communities, forums, news sites, etc. specially those hosted in German IPs and with German  (.DE) or Swiss (.CH) ccTLDs Since I understand that you're using a .com domain to rank for all of the German speaking countries with the same content, both Germany and Switzerland and not specifically targeted to a specific country (so your site is language, not country targeted) in this case you're not able to geotarget it in Google Webmaster Tools which would be also an additional possibility if you had for example, a specific German version targeting Germany with: yourdomain.com/de/ or targeting to Switzerland with: yourdomain.com/ch/, nonetheless, if at some point you are, is important that you also know of this setting. Moreover, if you switch towards a country targeted domain structure, instead of using a generic domain such .com the best is to switch over a .de targeting Germany and .ch targeting Switzerland. These additional signals should help!

Even though you don't mention about page3.html in sitemap, bot's will crawl and index this page. When ever a bot come to crawl our site first it will look for Sitemap, because it is a guide line from google to create and submit sitemap to the search engines. So it is nothing but we are providing the total website information in one file. In other terms it is called Search engine friendly. And also if bot's encountered any problem while crawling this page3.html then they won't index this page. Thank you..

Hi James Takeshi is right on the money about noindexing them. Just wanted to add that with the Yoast SEO plugin, which you're using - you can easily do this under Titles/Meta. Click on the taxonomies tag and check of the "noindex" box. -Dan

Hi There I've taken a look around and don't see an obvious reason, but as others have said, I wouldn't be concerned about this unless that page is having trouble ranking for just a keyword search. For example I search "Cleardata provides bespoke document storage and archive storage services to businesses operating within East England." in quotes and that page returns in the results.A search for the URL returns it #1 as well, so I don't see any issue as far as that page ranking. -Dan

I think that this is the video that was mentioned by Rich. It goes back to 2011. Matt does say that he can't account for other search engines, but Google is cool with using a rel="canonincal" tag to point to "itself."

sure or e-mail me davec@evolvecreativegroup.com

Hi, Google is very aware of ads, so it's entirely possible that Google is aware that that subdomain is for ads only, and isn't indexing it anyway. To see if Google is indexing it, go to Google and type in "site:ads.domain" to see if it's indexed. If it isn't, Google won't find any results. If you want to remove that subdomain from Google's index, you won't be able to add it as a URL parameter in Webmaster Tools, since it's an entire URL. Instead, remove it from the index with robots.txt. Google explains how to do that here. Last, and we have to say this as SEOs, there's a good chance you are or will be penalized for using most of your homepage for ads! We'd strongly recommend that you remove some, or add some more content so that the majority of your homepage is unique content. At the very least, move most ads below the fold. Hope this helps! Follow up if you have any more questions, Kristina

Ok so long time in getting back to this, but here's what the client was actually referring to and found a good post on optimization around the new approach. SEO Tips for Infinite Scrolling | Adam Sherk - excellent read! Wasn't sure exactly what this programmer/client was referring to, but this was it! Thanks all for the help!