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We have seen these domains in audits that we have done as well. However we are also finding hundreds of spin offs of this - examples seekstone.cn and chinastonecompany.com. Like you we have been disavowing them but it would be great if somehow Google could flag up that they are aware of these domains and we don't need to worry about them.

Thank you everyone!  I will be building a site for one of our other companies soon... maybe I'll try wordpress to give it a chance.  

Hi Tom Sorry to be a pain but please can you confirm re my latest question/comment reply to yours, i.e. does your advice still stand if client on a windows server (since i dont think have .htaccess files or do/can they?) And if not then is there a similar course of action that can be taken ? Cheers Dan

Hello, I apologize for the trouble you are experiencing with your connection to GA in your campaigns.  If you can write in to help@Moz.com, ask for Abe and provide the name of your effected campaigns and email address on your Moz account, I will run a fix that should take care of this quickly

If you have the opportunity to get those type of links without paying for them and you feel it would get your site on the radar of the audience they have then go for it. If your asking should you spend money to get those links from sites with low da that dont have an engaged following i would say no. hope that helps

Hey Seb! Sorry for the scare there! Whenever your account is suspended or closed, your campaigns are archived. Go to your Campaigns section: http://analytics.moz.com/manage-campaigns Look for a tab for "Archived Campaigns" From here, you should easily be able to "activate" your campaigns. Let me know if this helps!

The knowledge graph pulls from a bunch of different areas. google+ can help for sure. But try looking into other things like Wikipedia. It's hard to get an entry there if you don't "deserve it" but its possible. And it can help. Also look into entering your freebase entry. That can help a lot too.  If I can help, let me know.

I completely agree with this response. No one knows 100% for sure what a search engine is or isn't going to do - probably not even Matt Cutts and certainly not Rand, particularly since they are tweaking and improving the system on a daily basis. And I too agree that you should never post content (blogs) just for the sake of posting content or just for the sake of linking to another page. Updates like Panda will come back to haunt you if this is your practice. Instead of focusing on whether or not a link in a post is going to have more authority than a link elsewhere and using that to determine whether or not you are going to post new content, focus instead on your audience and how you can provide them value. Does the article and/or link provide value to your consumer? At the end of the day, always remember that websites are for people, NOT for search engines.

Yep that is correct, which can be 50/50.

Why not leave the product up (200). Make it clear these items are no longer for sale. For example, pull the 'add to cart' button and use language to cross-sell another product.

I want to clarify something that I think would help to better answer the question. Is this showing in the meta description in the source code on the pages or is it just showing up in Google's search results? If it's in the source code then you obviously can change it, although it may be somewhat difficult depending on the cms. If it's only in search results and not in the source code then it's going to be a lot more difficult to get rid of. This is something that Google is detecting on your site and automatically displaying because it think that it's beneficial to searchers.

Hi Andy, Speaking of coincidences, I logged in just now and found that all the re-crawling are now taking place. Paul

Hi Spencer. That article is great and explains this issue perfectly. so Barnacle SEO, huh? Yeah, I do see that his domain authority is larger as is his likes/yelp reviews. I'm in my second year. The competitor i believe is in the 15th or so. At this point, I'm going to optimize my social media profiles and link them to my site. Ideally this will help balance that first page more. My primary effort will be to move to the first spot on the page. Thank a bunch!

Thank you for your responses!  Looks like I have some work ahead of me.  A short term fix and a long term fix.  My site is somewhat responsive now, but not all the way down to mobile size.  I need to look at taking it further.  Thank you!

THanks for all of the answers, does anyone have recommendations for good companies that do consulting for Panda related issues?

Check out these posts on blog syndication. It can be a great source of exposure for your site. Make sure the original post on your site is already indexed first and you link back to it from any place that the post is syndicated.

Thanks Dennis, Always looking for good angles.