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Also worth mentioning that if you have connections with some pro players who have influence in this area, it would be 100% worth pushing for a link or at very least a twitter shout-out to get some interaction going, Even if its a nofollowed link from a topic youtube channel, they are exactly the target audience you will be looking for and once you get some visits if they like your content and guides they may start sharing it with there friends/fellow players interacting and creating some buzz and traffic around your site, I would think you may get somewhere with your connections especially if they are contributing content to your site, Hope this helps James

Will do thanks Keri

That's very helpful. And that article was a good read. Appreciate the help!

Thanks! I'll see if this changes anything.

Hi AKClinics, The answers above are all great,  but given that this thread is likely to be read by others who may be dealing with a manual action instead of a Penguin issue, there is something else I think needs to be mentioned. In general, since nofollowed links are not passing PageRank, but as Marie explained above are passing a suggestion to Google that they should not be counted, there is no need to include them in a cleanup effort or disavow them. However, I have seen many instances of nofollowed links built by SEO agencies that are part of a wide scale effort to manipulate the algorithm. In one memorable case a link builder truly excelled sarcasm by creating comments with multiple links on every single page of a site with thousands of pages. Every one of those links was nofollowed, but the fact that the link builder didn't know the links were of no value does not alter the fact that it was clearly a manipulative effort. So, where such instances appear when conducting analysis for a site with a manual action my preference is always to try to remove those links and to disavow them. There are two reasons I take this approach: Make it clear to the Webspam team at reconsideration that the site owner is genuinely committed to cleaning up the fruits of all overtly manipulative linking efforts regardless of whether required by them or not. This helps to reinforce commitment to a change of mindset for the future. Leaving those links out there is not a good look for the Brand. People who happen to see those comments or dig into the backlink profile in the future will form an opinion of the Brand based on what they see. Leaving masses of obviously undesirable links in play is leaving the Brand open to a negative interpretation. If I can possibly get them removed then I will. Since you are not dealing with a manual action, you don't necessarily need to worry about this, but for those who are, I would be wary of just disregarding all nofollowed links without checking to see if they are part of a wider scale manipulative effort. Sha

Yep, that's perfect! Let us know how you get on.

Graftene, you are absolutely right that it would just loop, however there are several reason you can still apply the tag. If someone find the need to copy your entire site / code they will also copy your canonical which may not be deleted by them. If there are instances of the some content on the net you at least tell the search engines that the original version of the text is on your website. The second reason in my opinion is the most important. Why? Because if you do some content marketing and you share your information or your texts with the web it can very well be that you would want to use your own text, in that case, the search engine at least knows where the original is. Hope this helps some Regards Jarno

You're going to need to understand, at the bare minimum the following: Place TouristAttraction Photo Next thing you know, Schema markup will encompass more aspects of the aforementioned. So prepare for that. Keep up to date with the blog.

What about this idea: We can flesh out profiles with Data, demographics, and contact info. No one cares about it, so we leave it off. We can also customize it by a list of names that are connected, for those that have registrants So 2 options: throw the demo info up on each, giving some unique content. and or Throw up member first names last init of those registered in them, then only index them if they have members? However, 80% of our traffic comes from these "duplicate" pages.

To throw some more info out there on this one. My guy just sent me a link (see attachment) to a Matt Cutts video where he explains that if you're doing this sort of design with normal web design practices, Google will not penalize the hidden text as spammy. We're currently using Display: None tag, which isn't mentioned specifically, but we think should be alright according to Matt's video. Any thoughts on this? Thanks! watch?v=UpK1VGJN4XY

Hi there, as Takeshi said, it is difficult to answer this without more information (especially how you are implementing password protection on these pages.) Are you able to offer any information at all, or did you figure this out? We'd love an update so we can help you resolve this. Christy

Incredibly smart answer Miriam. I'm going to steal this line: "In general, inclusion of more than one result in a single pack for the same brand is the result of tremendous dominance or lack of competition." Miriam covered it all, I'll just say that things are somewhat different post-Pigeon. In the past it was very difficult to get more than one listing in the pack. But now with Pigeon I've seen packs where ALL 7 were for the same business. Example: one medical practice and 6 Drs at the same practice. That never used to happen before. And it's not really fair if there are 30 other businesses in that city that one locks everyone else out. But Pigeon has not settled in yet and it appears they are still testing and training it. So I would not count on that continuing and I've only seen it happen in some smaller less competitive markets. So all you can really do is follow Miriam's advice and continue working on all the best practice stuff you can. Consumers searching via phone that are located closer to location B will more likely see that one.

Thanks for the responses Bruce and TakeshiYoung! For a full rundown on how we compile our index, check out this post. The best thing to do is to continue focusing on building high quality backlinks. This will improve the chances of your site getting more links indexed.

Hi There I would look at the page as a whole - and the anchors coming to it - http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.familyfootwearcenter.com%2FWolverine-Boots-c38.html The reason it may be an issue, is that in my 10 seconds eyeballing that report I can sense a pattern. And that's exactly what Google is looking for. A pattern of 'link building' activities to try and boost that page for 'wolverine boots'. The problem is the page doesn't appear to have many (or any) natural links or natural anchor text. So I'd work on the page as a whole to reduce unnatural links into it. You can also dig deeper with Webmaster Tools to get more in depth than OSE will show.

Great, happy to help!

Great answer Sha. I will post the outcome when changes occur.