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I had trouble but theres a link that you can click to show you exactly the protocol they want it to be in.

Matt, tell you from the experience that your concern is right but you are missing a thing that should really consider! You are removing and disavowing all the bad links this is exactly what you should be doing (give a try on removing them because this is very important here) and then try to build so high quality links at the same time. If you see less margin of quality resources available within your niche try to do something that get you press ad authority links from media sites. This will give you some positive points in the eye of Google and get you more chance to recover!!

Here's some info I found on second and third-level domains.  ICANN does call third-level domains subdomains, and that's where I got confused before. http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faqs/faqs-en http://www.donuts.co/tlds/ http://www.dotanything.co/tlddetail.aspx?tld=Shoes

Keyword planner tool within the Google AdWords console added nine new features today. The new features include: Specify a time period for keyword data Compare time periods over time View absolute and relative changes for each ad group and keyword’s volume comparing two periods Visualizing mobile trends See breakdowns by device and targeted locations Flexible time periods Device segmentation and bid adjustments Location breakdowns for sub-geos of your targeted location Visualizations and estimates for sub-geos http://www.phillymarketinglabs.com/9-awesome-additions-to-googles-keyword-planner/

Is it possible to leave the products and just disable the buying function for them? That is the best bet SEO wise. Then your pages keep their authority.

If you have access to it i would for sure start re writing the content, after republishing the web pages, re submit the site map and the search engines should re-crawl soon. Good luck hope this helps.

Thanks for the response. The issue of "hiding" the content with the randomization was a fear of mine. Believe me, I don't like the rotating content design, but it's where we're at right now. 3 search results, think specific businesses, but for user experience, only 3 will be shown at once. This is not something to be changed unfortunately. If more than 3 are in that specific business category, we'll be rotating them out (which I don't like) upon refresh. The only solution I can think of is to have the top 3 remain static and allow the user to click a "Show more" button which loads them beneath (or replaces the original 3). Either way, Google shouldn't have an issue with that, correct? I know there are "better" ways to accomplish what we're asking, but the site is custom built and nearly 95% complete. We are also taking a unique approach to the way we display results and serve them to our clients, so the most optimal way is not achievable at this point. It's basically finding the most optimal for what we can do, if that makes sense. Thanks for understanding!

The site map is an indication to Google to crawl those pages, there are instances where people have meta tags with noindex, follow and would list them in their sitemaps so that Google will crawl all the links listed on the page but not index the page itself. The meta tags or headers on your page will be the signal to Googlebot on how to handle that page regardless of your sitemap and whats on it.

The robots.txt would allow the OP to go back into GWT and request removal of the dev site from the index. Password protecting a dev site is usually a pretty good idea, too.

Your original question mentioned using it as a source of linkbuilding several times.  It sounds like a place to "guest blog" and Matt Cutts is on the warpath against guest blogs these days. I think that such a blog would be fine if all of the outlinks were nofollowed and the posts were placed there to drive a little traffic and to get some brand mentions.  I think that traffic and brand mentions are valuable. But, if it were my company, we would not be using our valuable content creation time producing content for a satellite site.  The only way that satellite site will have valuable links is if there are links given to it from outside websites - and if I can produce content to attract that kind of link it would be better placed on my own website.  That way any link that hits it will directly power my own domain and deliver traffic to my own domain.   Traffic and links going to an outhouse only have fractional value. If you have a couple of colleagues who can help you diversify your content do an article exchange.  They write a nice one for your site and you write one for their site.  There is only one link on the page going to their site and it is a nofollowed link in their bio space.  That way both of your primary sites get a blog post and both of your sites get brand mentions and a bit of traffic exchange.  No link manipulation.   This is superior to posting your content on a satellite site because any links that are given to the articles benefit your main site instead of the satellite.  Makes it look like you have colleagues in the industry. That's how I would do it.

Google doesn't always tell you when you when they take action on a site.  It could have been some minor algorithm tweak that put you over the edge in some capacity.  We took over two clients who had a massive amount of linking between their own websites.  This randomly caused a penalty.  I'm 99% sure this is the cause because removing them fixed it, putting them back broke it again and removing it the final time fixed it for good. Maybe look at your link profile for excessive site wides, or any over optimization.

Granted, this correction probably doesn't matter, but for posterity: *there's no distinction (in the video) between if it's the first followed link or no follow."

Thanks a lot Lesley, really appreciate it! We currently use a Creare SEO plugin for Magento which appears to solve the issue of duplicate content but then creates another issue of temporary redirects. Will try Yoast and see how things go. Thanks again.

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I have released 10's of thousands of pages at once on many occasions on multiple sites and never had an issue. Why should there be an issue? If the content is good then Google wants it. If its poor low quality content then you are feeding Panda and it will take an overview of the total quality of the site and then slap you. So decide how useful all of that content is and why you want it all indexed. You could even deploy all the content at once and set some categories to noindex and change them bit by bit to see the effects. I think Panda runs about once a month right now so you will need to be a little patient to see overall results.