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Could anyone provide a little more information on Whitespark?

Yeah, I tend to agree with Maximilian and Mike - I'm not clear on the use-case scenario here and, technically, pages 1 and 2 aren't duplicated. Rel=canonical probably will still work, in most cases, and will keep page 2 from looking like a duplicate (and from ranking), but I'd like to understand the situation better. If Google did honor the canonical tag on page 2, then the duplication between pages 2 and 3 shouldn't be a problem. I'm just thinking there may be a better way.

Thanks Anthony, I have heard this recently. My problem is I want to find a solution and repeat it 20,000 times LOL.

How many domains do those 24 million links come from?  It's possible you could find that they distill down into a manageable number of domains to manually review.  I think that tools like Link Detox can help in an initial review of links and perhaps you can use that as a first pass to find as many spammy ones as possible.  Then, I would take all of the links that were marked as suspicious or healthy, and visit one link from each domain manually. In my experience, the only sites that I am seeing recovering from link based issues (either manual penalty or Penguin) are ones who have been EXTREMELY thorough on their audits.  It sure is a lot more work to evaluate links by hand but I think it is necessary.

Hi Niamh, Thanks for writing in and the update. I'm really glad you were able to figure this out Let us know if there's anything else and have a great day! Best, Sam Moz Helpster

Thanks, this helps!

Then perhaps improving the design might solve the problem. You could use a treeview... Example: http://www.programmingsolution.net/useful-js/jquery-treeview.php

Hi, You can subscribe to the Moz Top 10 here: http://moz.com/moztop10 if that is what you mean? Peter

Hi Rand Many thanks for taking the time to check by on this one. I appreciate you giving your valuable input. Peter

What exactly are you trying to do? Maintain high rankings for that page or somehow capture the high rankings for your new landing page? If you change the contents of that page into a landing page, your rankings will fluctuate. If you don't redirect, you will lose all of the links pointing to the content you move. Why don't you just gate your content for members only and point your paid media to a new URL with the landing page?

Keri, I am still having the same issues in the weirdest ways. IE: I go to Q&A (logged in), click on a question to post an answer, BAM, logged out. IE2: Logged in in Moz, go to OSE, BAM, logged out, return to moz, logged out too. I already signed off and back on, still no luck. Thanks for the help!

I am having the same issue currently with one of my clients sites. No robots.txt is or was ever in place. I can not find any issues at all that would cause the problem. Was wondering if you every had any resolution to this? Client also uses Yoast.

Hi, if you use Followerwonk that will show you all your followers in one place. However, there isn't a differentiation with Twitter (unless it is something they have added recently) between a personal or a business account. So you can only check each of the profiles and try and work out which ones are personal and which are for business. Some will be obvious, some less so. I know it's not the answer you were looking for specifically, but I hope it helps, Peter

Hi Gary, To answer each of your questions: 1. Unfortunately, it isn't that simple. There are a few factors that Google will take into account when it sees 301 redirects to a new domain. In the past, this technique has been used to manipulate Google, for example people would buy expiring domains that have links pointing to them, then 301 that domain to their own - even if the domain was in no way related to what the expired domain was about. So Google will look at the relevancy of the links and try to figure out if the redirects would make a good user experience for anyone who clicks on the links and gets redirected. 2. Yes. Google needs to crawl the links in order to find the redirect and see where it points to. Depending on how strong your website is in terms of link equity, it may take a few hours to a few weeks for Google to crawl all of the pages on your site and find the redirects. Because of this, redirecting one site to another can often lead to at least a temporary loss in traffic for the domain whilst Google figures out what is going on. I hope that helps! Paddy