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Hi Kaushal, Thanks for the question. There are a few ways to deal with this problem which are recommended by Google here. In summary, you can: Use parameter handling as you have done Add the nofollow attribute to problematic URLs Block problematic URLs in robots.txt There is also a thread in the Google webmaster forums which may be useful to you: https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/webmasters/crawling-indexing--ranking/CCORJBI-mEg Overall, it comes down to having a good site architecture and cutting down / removing / blocking URLs that you don't care about from a search perspective. I hope that helps a bit! Paddy

Hi Kerry, This really depends, in most cases people only link the specific elements instead of the whole DIV box. For example what we did at TNW is: http://take.ms/tibb9 making the summary not clickable while the other elements in a featured posts are. I think that will make it more clear for users what they can click on instead of clicking by accident on something and then being redirected. The best answer would be to test this to see how users react to this. So set up your A/B testing tool ;-).

Hi Jim, I think you might find this article by Mike Blumenthal to be helpful: http://localu.org/blog/merge-google-pages-usually-cant-now/

I would forward that old domain to the new one at the DNS level (no domain mapping) as a 301 redirect. Then you should be able to safely shut down that old blog, since you said "duplicated" content. But if the old blog URL structure is different than the new main site, and you have a significant number of links to that old Wordpress site, you might want to set up server side redirects to preserve any link juice coming from those inbound links.

Hi David, Great question, don't be to worried. There's litle chance that Google wil penalize you if you translated unique content in to a new language. However there is a way to make sure you won't get into trouble later on and this will also make sure that the right language of the content is ranking in the right country; hreflang. By directing Google to another page for the same content in another language it will most likely rank that page for the content. More information on using HREF lang can be found here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en .

some great answers you can also find a list of all the robots here & here   Depending on your site you can also for example hide the rest of your site behind a login screen or a form which bots won't fill in.

Hi Rishi! Thank you. Great solution.

Hi Tamara, Thanks for the clarification. There are special considerations when a business is a brick-and-mortar concern, but the conclusion is pretty much the same in most cases: the single site approach is simply better most of the time, enabling you to amass a great deal of authority in one place rather than having it spread thin over multiple places. You've asked a smart question!

Here are some resources for you.  Some old and some recent.  I personally only add links to a page that are helpful to anyone on that is on that particular page. How Many Links on a Page: Rand Fishkin talking about footer links for user experience. Dr. Pete talking about the number of links and how many is too many Jennifer Slegg of Search Engine Watch talking about how many links per page Footer Link Info: John Doherty, formerly with Distilled, wrote a good linking blog on Moz and it had good info on Footer links.  He also did an awesome White Board Friday on Internal Linking Moz Help with Internal Links: Here is Moz's own take on internal links.  http://moz.com/learn/seo/internal-link I hope some or all of this helps! Darin

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Hi, If you configure your drop-down menus for SEO by using the correct CSS technique (i.e. the links appear on the page but are activated with a hover, which I am sure you're referring to), this is fine for SEO purposes. Best to avoid hundreds and hundreds of links in drop-down menus (they can get cumbersome and bad for usability, and dilute the passed authority). If it's best for usability to have a huge drop-down but link numbers are concern, some sites use JavaScript for links that aren't important for SEO on "mega menus". As a basic rule though, you will not suffer by having some navigational links in CSS-led drop downs.

I hear the word 'cloak' and I immediately think 'bad'. Are you doing this in some way that won't get a site penalized? I'm genuinely curious.

If you use the sll certificate, I would add a canonical url to the site and just direct everything to the ssl site, then you will be ahead of the game when google starts promoting ssl results.

Alright, thanks for the input guys.  I guess it's good to know that everyone is shooting into the dark, at least a bit.

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Hello I have one more question, when the writer of the article is placing the source, how he should put the source in that article ? I see, that is the most used the site name for anchor text... but what he needs to put in anchor ? this: www.google.com or  this link: www.google.com/car-is-driving or should combine both ? Thank you

Hi, If the notice was revoked due to you nofollowing the bad outbound links, this means that a penalty has been lifted. However, there could be other issues affecting the site that have caused its drop - ranking 8th is not an indication of a penalty - penalised websites tend to rank a lot worse than this. The inbound links Marie has cited could be part of the problem, even though you have not received a warning about them. If they are no longer helping (but were helping back when Google's standards were a little lower), then it's feasible Google has raised the rankings of other websites over yours, even though their Moz metrics have not yet caught up.