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Do you mean the Remove URLs feature in Google Webmaster Tools? I believe that is intended for removing your own content, as per https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=59819 If you wish to remove your content using the URL removal request tool in our Google Webmaster Tools, you must first meet the criteria listed below. To remove a page or image, you must do one of the following: Make sure the content is no longer live on the web. Requests for the page must return an HTTP 404 (not found) or 410 status code. Block the content using a robots.txt file. Block the content using a meta noindex tag.

Interesting; it may be worth checking out their more advanced options as part of what SF offers is a way to audit and check links. It's one of my preferred options.

Good answer. I like that.

I think people panic about cloaking/dynamic content too much to be honest. It would be easy to go overboard and start alarm bells ringing, but if you have a dynamic area on a well structured and balanced page I can't see it being an issue. Caveat: I can't think of a clear comparison to something I have worked on in terms of serving it geographically.  However I've done similar based on countless other criteria and not felt it has harmed anything.

Hi Dan, Thanks for the detailed reply. I will follow these suggestions up and fingers crossed it should sort the problem. edit: I have spotted the permalinks is set to following /blog/%category%/%postname%/ am i right that the /blog/ could be removed just leaving /%category%/%postname%/ for the same effect. Thanks

Thanks for the confirmation and insight. Much appreciated. bh

Hi Tommy You can do as Aran suggests - a redirect would be fine for feeds you don't want being crawled. But more importantly, you may want to consider not indexing subpages (like this one: http://www.mediaanalys.se/blogg/page/2/) - you can make this setting in Yoast. Let us know! -Dan

Hey Shailendra, Many hosting solutions allow you to do this and you can also put links in at the end of an HTML5 video with Javascript. For the latter option - I recommend reading through this page http://bubbles.childnodes.com/ which gives you some usable code. If you're looking to host your videos with a third party provider - then I recommend either Wistia or Vimeo Pro which both allow you to very simply add clickable links as a "call to action" at the end of a video. + Add Image or Video URLs Hope that's useful. Phil

Yes that is great thanks Adam.

Good point Alan. I now have access to WMT and while I wouldn't want any of my sites to have links from the sites they are getting links from, there are no warnings or messages from Google. There on-site SEO seems alright, shouldn't have been anything there that caused them an issue.

Hi Julien, I just did a basic check of your backlink profile using opensiteexplorer.org

Make sure to add the most relevant keywords as your tags. Obviously they are the keywords used in the post or synonyms

I've seen keyword specific penalties applied when people have been overzealous in linking with specific link text too often. Lesson: vary your link text.

Well I have to ask, why are they https, if you can get to the same page using http, do they need to be secure or not? having 2 versions will cause them to gain links to both and split the rank. I would force https if it is needed, i would only 301 if you know that there are links pointed to the un-wanted version.

Hi Fiona, I'm following up on older questions. Did these two answers help you, or are you looking for some more feedback still?

Hi, Look in Optimization menu >> Remove urls Create a new removal request, enter URL, click continue.. there will be a question asking whether a single page, directory, etc.. Submit request and you are done.. Hope this helps! Cheers, Gary

So you're saying, the 4 things you mentioned are the major factors for the site ranking?