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Hi BigBlaze, I have sympathy for your situation. Is there a tool that will tell you if these nefarious links were done intionally? No Can they hurt your SEO? If they are from bad neighborhoods online or questionable sites? Yes How do you remedy it? Use Google's new disavow tool. Here's info: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-new-tool-to-disavow-links.html I don't think anyone here can tell you to disavow one link or another. That is something better determined by you in the context of what you know about your business. Dana

thanks many thanks

You are very welcome. My pleasure to help!

I can try that and see.. We did not have this problem until we started loading 50 pages of content per month... It was like an overload or something....

Major kudos to Ryan!

thanks for the input. Had given quest-posting some thought but have not tried it. I think that I will to see if I get any response

I know the likes and plus +1's help but for instance: i have a blog post that has 0 tweets 4 +1's and 19 comments. Do the 19 comments help build authority for the page in anyway similar to getting +1's and likes?

I have had the same video come up as a rich snippet on 2 pages just FYI it works I don't know if its considered duplicate

I'd agree with Sanket on (1) - while, not a huge fan of creating new URLs for near duplicates (there may be some other ways, like dynamically modifying the content), canonical tags are definitely your best bet here if you need those unique URLs. I'll add a caveat on (2), though. Sometimes, canonical tags can "stick" a bit longer than you'd like, and Google may not re-index quickly. Adding a self-referential canonical tag does seem to help, anecdotally. What I'd also do is put those URLs back in your XML sitemap once they're unique (I'd leave them out while they're duplicates) - that can spur Google to reindex, and the self-referential tag can tell them to cancel the previous directive. Otherwise, they sometimes act like the old canonical is still in place.

If you search the term "windows-8-start-menu" in Google, the page here ranks 8th on average currently... www.pokki.com/windows-8-start-menu However, if you do the same search in Y! and Bing, the page is nowhere to be found and as mentioned you can't even find it when you search phrases like "pokki.com windows 8 start menu", instead you get a pokki.com result with a manipulated page title like below which doesn't match our Page Title or Description. Pokki brings back the Start Menu. - Pokki - Download Free ... The Pokki Menu makes accessing and organizing your favorite apps, websites, files and folders more simple and convenient. ... Start Menu for Windows 8 ... www.pokki.com - Cached Any insight on this will help. Thanks!

Hi Andy, Are you going to use canonical tag in Google.ie website ? ( I am not sure about of working of canonical tag on other domain ). Are these sites are location based means UK website only opens in UK and Ireland website opens in Ireland only. Problems: 1. If they are totally same Google might index only one website and ignore the other. 2. You will face ranking issue on Ireland website. So summary is, Can't you make Ireland website unique ??

Hi Adam, Are you using free version of xml-sitemaps.com ? In free version they have limitation of 500 URLs. If you have less then 3500 pages, you can try www.web-site-map.com. Hope this help....

The main idea is to title your page based on what's actually on the page and then add SEO around it. Contact page - "Contact us for stairlifts in X | BizName" Gallery page - "Stairlifts in use - home elevators image gallery | BizName" Pricing page - "Prices for stairlifts in location | BizName" As long as you focus on the content of the actual page, writing unique titles shouldn't be too difficult.  If you had to have 2 galleries, make one "Stair lifts in use image gallery and photo examples | BizName"  You can vary your word choice, as Davinia said, or you can add page related materials.  Either will keep them unique. You said there are various kinds. "Buy Type A stairlifts | BizName" is not the same as "Purchase Type B stairlifts at Bizname"

Hi Nakul, its Drupal Mark

Anyone else feel that "get a membership at BBB.org" will cause google to act diffferently?

Hi there, Thanks for your feedback. I'm rather confused, I have just watched Matt Cutts say that this is NOT a problem can you please explain further why you think what Matt Cutts is saying is not true? Have you had experience of such issues? watch?v=Ets7nHOV1Yo&sns=em

Based on the cached pages I saw, I'd say it's a spam site. It also returned a 403 error in Lynx, so I presume the site is no longer active or just temporarily down rather than only visible to robots.

Thanks for the responses.  I found a good explanation here also http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.htmlThis post from Google Webmasters says that either one is fine.  Just make sure you do one or the other.Regarding your root domain - Rest assured that for your root URL specifically, http://example.com is equivalent to http://example.com/ and can’t be redirected even if you’re Chuck Norris.