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Honestly no.. and noone seems to know the answer (I ofcause havent tried to ask google). I have tried everyone from Search Engine Land, SEOmoz, webmaster forums, googles webmaster forums, other experts within the industry.. and noone seems to have any idea or have ever experienced it for that matter. What I wound up doing was: 1. make a new landing page for the subject and did a ton of link building paying close mind to the anvhor texts as always. 2. make a 301 redirect to the new page. After some months the problem stopped.. I have however never found the reason for the problem. And no one seems to know the answer

Thanks Keri.  Appreciate the offer, but I'm all set.  We just 301d the page after the test was done and have decided that we'll only multivariate the home page for now.  We've now had 3 major press links point to the testing version of our home page, so we've decided our best bet is just to set up all tests as multivariate so we don't create two different URLs. Thanks again.

Thanks, Wayne, I never thought about link juice flowing to those pages, I'll have to check that out before making a decision. All the pages I want to remove are in the same directory, so would adding the text below to robots.txt remove all the pages in that directory from the index? User-agent: * Disallow: /directory/

Its the Authorship Markup . Now bloggers and Authors can enhance their snippet by adding rel= Author to their Author page. The image is pull out from Rands G+ Profile. the Way implemented is adding a rel="author" to link going to his author page July 27th, 2011 - Posted by randfish to SEOmoz Tools and when you go to Rand Profile you will see his G+ Profile with a rel=me. to verify that rand is the an author on SEOmoz Blog ... Rand has linked to his Blog under links https://plus.google.com/111294201325870406922/about

There is no penalty at all  . on the contrary its a best practice while renovating your site or Reconstructing URLs is to use a 301 redirect to preserve the link equity to the new destination.. I added a video for your reference. watch?v=r1lVPrYoBkA

any answer here Jacob?

Ok, update to this question - there are several hundred pages to redirect when making this transition. File structures are exactly the same between old and new sites. My problem is that I cannot use .htaccess to put in the code to redirect each page to its new page all at once because my client is using IIS, not Apache. Is there ANY WAY at all to do the permanent 301 redirects in IIS outside of just going into the Web Services manager and manually putting in the new URL for each page? HELP!

Well, another concern if they're completely unrelated links is that they may look like paid links which you could even be penalised for.

Hi Sally, This isn't ideal for SEO, and the immediate answer is: It's not OK, and you have to reduce this to one. Each time you use a 301 redirect, you lose some "link juice" - the less you redirect Googlebot, the more value your pages will retain. Can I ask why you're having to redirect twice? Cheers, Dave

Hi EGOL, Thanks for your insight into my question. I'm new here but I've read some of your other posts on the Q&A forums and will continue to work hard on producing quality content while optimizing the site. I appreciate you taking the time to answer this, my first question.

The Panda Bear is such a complicated beast, it's hard to narrow down what the problem could be without thoroughly looking at your sites. We had a similar problem on a previous update and had to try many different things to sort the problem, ultimately I think it was a combination of things on our sites that happened to trigger one of Panda's algorithms into dropping our ranking. It's probably worth bearing in mind that sites do sometimes disappear from G when updates take place. It's happened to us before and within a couple of weeks the site came back to where it was. I'd suggest trying to improve your sites in this time though, so that when your site is next crawled, G can see that you're starting to make improvements. One of the main things that seems to affect panda is duplicate content on your sites, so if you've got various pages with the same or similar content then I would suggest using the canonical tag to sort them out. Looking at your sites quickly, I've noticed that; Some sites (e.g. Wannapack) have a high number of inbound links from relatively small amount of domains. This could sometimes suggest a link scheme. The link profile on some of your sites contains a lot of 'spammy' directories and article sites. It may be worth trying to get some higher quality links from genuine sites, perhaps packaging review sites or how to sites. It may be worth getting rid of some old content and putting some new high quality content on your sites. Panda can often downgrade a site just for having one or two 'poor quality' pages. Try and limit the amount of duplicate content you are using across your sites. After all G can see they're sitting on the same server and may look at this in a negative way. Try looking at the page below for tips on link building with Panda; http://www.blueglass.com/blog/link-building-in-a-pandas-world/ I'm sure there's people on here who could direct you better than me on this topic, but as a starter I hope this helps!

In that case I wouldn't worry about it. Most webmasters won't really check the outgoing links, and if they do, they certainly wouldn't do it every day. Google is probably pretty lenient on this too, as they understand that occasional service outages occur. As long as your site was back up and running in a reasonable amount of time, you should be fine.

Hi! I'm following up on older questions, and wondering if you got this straightened out or still need a hand. Thanks!

Hi Nick, I'm following up on older, unanswered questions here in Q&A. Did you ever get this sorted out?

Hi Jan, I'm following up on old questions. Did Theo's answer solve your problem for you?

Hmm, okay. I need to ask myself the question if the .no domain ending is worth it. Because the site is for Norway, and we now have .org as you can see. How much value do Google lay on that?

Hi Anthony, thank you very much for your right answer. Wish you all the best.

Hi Keri.  Thanks for following up.  This turned out to be an issue with an auto-generated breadcrumbs script.  I don't know what the intricacies of that were but we were able to remove it and get this issue straightened out. Thanks again! Megan

Hi! I'm following up on older questions and am wondering how you're doing with your site now, and if the rankings have improved. I see that you're at least indexed in the US right now, with plenty of pages in Google. Can you give us an update and any information that might be helpful for someone else in a similar situation?