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The Google Disavow tool doesn't work like that.  It won't actually remove links from any pages.  It is basically just a signal to Google that you want those links to be nofollowed.  Ahrefs would have no clue if something has been disavowed or not.

Unfortunately, there's very little you can do to stop Google from rewriting titles. In some cases, if a title is too long or poorly matches frequent queries, tweaking it can help, but that's often not the case with them adding your brand name. I'm with Bill  - I'd try to pin down if Google is pulling this from another source. If it's just coming from your domain, though, there may not be much you can do. There's no directive to tell them to stop rewriting, unfortunately.

Your questions can have many suggestions and little tips but by far one of the biggest ones answers this part of your question: "So what is the new purpose for our blogs in this new age of Google and ever-increasing social influence?" Produce engaging content, and be know as the authority in a certain topic and social shares, comments, and traffic will naturally come for an ever-increasing social influence. Its one of those easier said then done things. Hope this helps!

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Hi Eva, Do you have Webmaster Tools set up for the domain? If you do, you will usually be sent a message in your Webmaster Tools account if you have a penalty attached to your site for whatever reason. The penalty messages are not particularly descriptive, but they will tell you whether this is a penalty or is just the site no longer being strong enough to rank well in comparison to its competitors. I see the subdomain properly indexed and being returned for its brand name - do you see this too? http://i.imgur.com/A0P6Hee.png That said, searching for terms like [tutorpace math] do not return the subdomain. Is there a reason why math and English are on subdomains but science, economics, etc. are on subfolders / pages? Then, within science, we go back to subdomains for chemistry, biology etc.? It's generally advisable to keep content on the same subdomain, like "www", so you'd have www.tutorpace.com/science/biology, www.tutorpace.com/math/algebra/, etc. Have you done any deliberate link building to the site or employed an SEO company to do so? Real penalties are usually because of bad link building activity or very poor on-page optimisation (although a lot of different factors make up "bad" link building and "bad" on-page SEO). You do seem to have some internal pages that are indexed but contain no content: http://i.imgur.com/zy7cox7.png --> http://i.imgur.com/v7Y6C1p.png Do you know where these blank pages might have come from? They should return **404 Not Found **or 410 Gone server responses so that Google removes them from its index quickly, rather than continuing to return 200 OK responses (as they are right now, as is shown by the plugin in the screenshot). Another issue is that the content on the Math page is duplicated elsewhere, including on the very strong Facebook domain, via the company's official Facebook page. You need to provide unique content for the Facebook page than what is published on the website: http://i.imgur.com/9hAKoc0.png Ensure that the content on the pages is unique - you can't stop scrapers from picking up your content and publishing it elsewhere, but you can ensure that you don't deliberately publish it in more than one location. I hope these points help. Thanks, Jane

Yes, if the old pages are completely outdated, then it makes sense to redirect them to an up-to-date page. If the old pages still have some value, then you may also consider just adding a prominent note at the top of the page linking to the new location.

I would expect penguin to be sudden. What your problem sounds like to me, is slowly your links are being discounted as google finds them. Do you have a lot of rubbish links?

*Disavow, that's what I meant to say. Alright, thanks for your insights! I appreciate it. Ruben

Great, thanks for the info! It definitely looks like some good places to start. Ruben

Using alternate hreflang tags may help... https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en I realize that they are both in English but if one is proper English while the other is American English this could be helpful...

Hm, there are a lot of subtleties in here. First, if you have mysite.com/flowers and m.mysite.com/flowers with completely different content on them, Google is not going to think they're the same page. They'll rank differently based on their own merits, and Google will probably rank _bot__h _of them for desktop and mobile. Google wants to give searchers access to all content across the web, so if you have two pages with different information, it'll show them as two resources. Now, if you follow mobile best practices, you'll make m.mysite.com/flowers rel="canonical" to mysite.com/flowers, and rel="alternate" mysite.com/flowers to m.mysite.com/flowers. In that case, you're telling Google that mysite.com/flowers is the original source of information, and m.mysite.com/flowers is the same information presented differently. In that case, Google will only rank mysite.com/flowers for desktop searches and m.mysite.com/flowers for mobile searches. I'm not 100% sure how Google will handle the differing content in this case, but my guess is, it'll rank m.mysite.com/flowers as well as mysite.com/flowers would rank for the search, but it'll use the page title, URL, and meta description from m.mysite.com/flowers. Like Andy said, Search Engine Land has a great guide to mobile SEO. I also wrote a guide that's more broadly about building a good mobile site and not just about SEO: https://www.distilled.net/training/mobile-seo-guide/ What's your real question behind all this? Are you building a mobile site and planning on making it significantly different than your desktop site? In that case, I'd recommend that you don't. If you have a video about flowers and 10,000 words of text on it, but both on your /flowers page and allow desktop and mobile visitors to access both. Generally, you want your mobile site experience to be as close as possible to the experience of browsing your desktop site. Otherwise, it's just confusing.

Hey guys thanks again for the help but I am still looking for some data to prove this point.  I have gone ahead and determined that the keywords we are currently using are placing us page 4 and below while our title tags are placing us higher.  If there are any other articles are hard facts on how this doesn't help in this scenario it would be greatly appreciate.

Sites that optimise the mobile experience will enjoy better rankings. That doesn't have to be a responsive site - it could be delivered on a separate mobile version or by dynamic serving. Clearly if you are providing your mobile visitors with an experience enhanced for mobile devices then you will be rewarded for that. A users who comes to a site from search which provides only a desktop version of the site and finds it virtually unusable will inevitably click back immediately - sending to Google the signal that their search query hasn't been met by that site. Optimise the user experience for the device the user is using - remember responsive isn't always the best option for user experience.

Hi, It's indeed part of their knowledge graph but this is a more obvious box than you normally see on the right side. For the winter olympics they had something similar where they showed the medal rankings for example (hé, I've checked it many times, the Dutch ended on 5th place ;-)). They seem to do it with big events where they show useful data. You'll probably see it again this summer during the world championship football.

Hi Eva, Like Google, it can take time for your site to be accepted into the index for the first time. There are also a lot of other reasons why this could be happening, but rather than try to go through them all here, have a read of this exact question over at Bing http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/why-is-my-site-not-in-the-index-2141dfab Hopefully that will be of use. -Andy

Thanks Miriam and Hemant, appreciate your help. To answer your questions Miriam we're not your typical local company and don't meet with customers at our office as we are in the satellite TV industry and work with customers throughout the country. Because our customers are national base our concern was a Google Local listing may be hurting our national results if they think we're trying to market locally. Has anyone had an issue with this before?

Cyrus, Thanks for taking the time to write your response

Thanks guys! I appreciate it.