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Hi Jacob, Thanks for elaborating on advanced queries, those help us to see how many of our pages are indexed thus far. It alarming that we see more than 120K pages on old domain unlike 40K on new domain even after 6 months. We zeroed on not having a consolidated site map with all the new urls fed to google might be the reason as for the limitations of our CMS, we were not able to generate that at domain change. But we are in the process of generating and see where it takes us. thank you,

DO NOT interlink your sites with dofollow links, Google hates this kind of activity and can penalize both sites for this. It is a blatant attempt to self promote your own site and will be seen as a paid link. If you have a good site, I would not mess with it. I would look at better ways to integrate the eCommerce site into the current existing site, why do you need a new site with a new url?

Those are know as "Sitelinks" Here is the official page from Google about them, https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en "At the moment, sitelinks are automated. We're always working to improve our sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future." Google Having a good linking structure that is clear on your site, will help promote that. However you will also only get sitelinks when your site is an authoritative source for that search term.

Thank you very much for the responses, much appreciated. That's what's confusing me. I haven't built any links in 1-2 years for that domain. All I do is post on the blog, Facebook, Twiiter and G+. I've sent some removal requests to the more obvious ones with names like seodirectory etc. Should I wait or would you just send a disavow to Google now? Best Regards, Stephen

In addition to seeing the pages indexed, the segmentation works just as well in your analytics. You can see which make is getting the most traffic, which has the highest bounce rate, etc. You could even filter on just /2013/ and look across all of the 2013 cars you have to see how they are performing compared to the /2012/ cars.

Also see answers on Wesley's other question thread here: Should we noindex 65,000 product pages all at once or in steps? (paraphrasing)

I think you would be fine doing it all at once. The gradual roll-out thing Matt Cutts was referring to had to do with adding pages, not removing them. You could also use the URL removal tool to get them taken out of the index faster once you have added the noindex,follow tag. You can remove an entire directory that way in one fell swoop as long as you don't need any other pages in that directory to be indexed either. This is a smart move for a lot of eCommerce sites that like to drop ship products and use manufacturer or distributor-supplied product descriptions at a level that is not scaleable for rewriting on their own. In such cases I optimize the best performing products, get the rest out of the index, and rely heavily on category pages for bringing in search traffic. It isn't the best situation, but it's better than keeping a Panda penalty.

Wow, thanks Gary!  You rock! We are a Yahoo Store, but FastPivot has been our developer for several years.  It appears maybe one of the developers made a mistake of some sort and their blog posts were creating pages on our site.  I'll ping them. Thanks again I really appreciate your help! Ron

Links that have been discounted do indeed factor into penalties. In fact, they're probably the links you want to remove FIRST because these are sites/pages that Google has already flagged. You should absolutely remove them, especially if you're under penalty of some sort. Removing links is indeed a bit of a two-edged sword in that you often cut out some spam links that Google doesn't (yet) know about. That said, leaving the links in place is the poorer option in my view, as it prevents you from moving forward with a long-term strategy. If all of your links are manipulative, it might be better just to start a new site rather than cleaning up to return to 0.

That's an awfully interesting mobile URL =/ Ideally you should only have one URL. If that's not possible, you want to follow the same URL structure as closely as possible. If that's not possible, you'll want to add rel="alternate" on the desktop site to the corresponding mobile URL, and a canonical tag on the mobile site to the desktop site. https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details By the way, I'd strongly suggest detecting based on screen size or width rather than user-agent wherever possible.

Keri: You are such an instigator! Sounds like you are angling for a joint blog post from me and EGOL. In your evll and nefarious way. NYAH-HAH-HAH. <<evil grin="">></evil>

Hey Chris, I don't have anymore context; it was just a thought experiment. I'm doing my best to wrap my head around in foreseeable issues I might have. Thanks for the help, Ruben

no. just seems like keyword level penguin "penalty" on home page. i came up with something a little different we're going to try. we created a page /home and put the rel canonical there, and we're using a 302 to redirect /home to /. i'm hoping google will index the homepage as  /home while it "temporarily" goes to get the content from /.

David Without more data it is hard to answer this. I will ask a question and it is simply to check for the info - is the link in any way a footer link? sidebar? etc.? If there were a way to look at the link we might could help, but I can understand if not.  Best.

Luke if you're writing these manually I doubt you could possibly write and publish them fast enough for it to be any problem at all. If this is automated and you're going to be releasing thousands, or tens-of-thousands... of new title tags I'd slow down and do it in segments, not for fear of any "penalty" but because it's always good to test things out before making changes that big unless you know for sure it is a change for the better - which it sounds like it is.

We have seen it strike one of our competitors this week really, really hard. Like going from #1 to out of the top 50 for 150 geo keywords. How long ago did you disavow the links? If it was over 3 months ago, it might be time to look at doing a URL change. Unless you have a lot of time to play the waiting game with Google. If it was less than 3 months ago, I would give it that long and see what happens while really focusing on building high quality links.

Thanks John,I'm already working through link removals. Some of the the competition in this niche have v. poor sites in comparison (design / content) but not the thin content of our client which suggests to me that Google doesn't like the pages (especially if they're getting de-indexed now ) so I think we should look to remove these thin content web pages. I don't think losing these pages will make a massive difference in terms of traffic with the majority of these pages generating single figure visits year on year. Regards,Ade

They are relevant.

I use WpLeadMagnet on some websites and I report: no negative effect on SEO. To answer Matt Goulart question: the content blocker functionality is based on divs, similar to prettyPhoto, ligntbox plugins, so it doesn't have a negative effect on SEO.

Cheers, yea certainly unintentional from my client. I will include a Google docs spread sheet showing the actions taken to remove these links and probably a link to this discussion! With a rather humble and embarrassed apology! oh well my first penalty in a 100 sites or so. Thanks for your help! have a great day!