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Awesome, great link, thanks!

Had the same question. I'm really glad to hear this!

The immediate solution is use your robots.txt file to block the Moz crawler from crawling URLs with parameters. Pamela. User-agent: rogerbot Disallow: /*?utm Those pages are coming from the bot trying to follow links to all the different ways product pages can be sorted. You'll want to insure Googlebot isn't having the same problem. Hope that helps; Paul

Ahhh ok I follow you Yes, in that case, that is be a much better approach! Thanks for clearing that up. Cheers!

I've done a total overhaul of my homepage before. Sounds a bit like yours--not a dramatic departure from the original. I did it all at once and didn't notice any significant negative consequences. In fact, I think the changes helped the site get better results more quickly than if I had slowly implemented the revisions.

Thank you, this helps.

Thanks, everyone, for your responses. They are very helpful and much appreciated!! Cheers.

Hi Green_Web, It looks like you have the same default title tag for all of your blog posts. The main pages on the site look like they have more suitable title tags. The blog section looks like it's in WordPress and has a default title tag in place, which hopefully is not hardcoded into the post template. If you don't have access or have the ability to edit titles, I would suggest talking to the devs and get them to use the post name in the title, but ideally, you would be able to independently modify all page titles through a plugin like Yoast. The reason you may be seeing a more suitable title tag sometimes is that Google won't always use your specified title tag in SERPs - it can sometimes use your h1 heading (for example) if it thinks that is more relevant to the user's search query. Cheers, David

It could be an intermittent slow server or one that's dropping out occasionally. There are various services which allow you to monitor uptime (e.g. Pingdom etc).

You are most welcome. I'm glad to hear your road to site recovery is coming along. I'm also glad to confirm that, to all of my knowledge, your understanding of the "*" operator and Disallow /?spam string is correct. One more thing: Fetch as Google and Request Indexing Apologies, I neglected to mention this step in my answer. It should be included. This is the best tool I'm aware of to ask Google, "hey, crawl me please." Do this after you upload your shiny new robots.txt. In GSC, under Crawl, select Fetch as Google. Then, select Fetch and Render. When status is partial or complete, click Request Indexing. There is no guarantee here, and my experience is Google does what it wants. Even so, I've seen results in less than 2 hours (full disclosure: the longest I've waited has been 3 days). Penalty Free I agree. They cannot possibly be penalizing your site. At least, not purposefully. You have taken all recommended actions and then some to resolve site issues. Even if you do have a few bad back links floating around out there from some blackhat t3 site PBN, Penguin 4.0 should discredit that bad link juice. Your site doesn't even have the offending pages. It's just a matter of time before Google's index lines back up with your live site. Good Work Sir, Wipe the Index Clean, CopyChrisSEO and the Vizergy Team

Hi Luke, It's a long time, unfortunately. Most of the 404 errors that I usually see in our Google Search Console properties are the ones that have been in there for ages. As you're dealing with bigger sites (+ 1 million pages) usually this is something you can't easily get rid of. For now I mostly tend to ignore them and try to focus on the crawl errors that come up during crawls via ScreamingFrog or Deepcrawl. Martijn.

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It's not the best idea, as mentioned above. What tends to work is having them as footer links for people who might be interested in the group of companies. The logical answer is to nofollow these, and they may still pass some benefits without the risk of penalty. However, when you look at large publishing groups for example (I know these well as I've worked for a few), they'll quite often list all their main publication websites in the footer, and also have them all followed. Now it may be that Google has missed them for a penalty, or it may be as massive publishers and possibly advertisers they're getting more leeway. But it's worth saying that they certainly don't seem to have suffered - there was a case study by Viperchill ages ago covering Hearst http://www.viperchill.com/google-control/

Hey there! Sam from Moz's Help Team here! So it looks like there are a couple of problems here - one is that Javascript is used on the page, and if the link follows the Javascript (which we aren't compatible with), this might be tripping us up. That said, it's more likely the formatting of the link that is preventing us from reading it accurately: http://www.screencast.com/t/6qP2w8WDoWY - it looks to be more like some kind of email redirect rather than a typical link, so in this case, it looks like an issue primarily with the formatting of the link in general that's preventing us from picking it up as a follow/no follow. I hope this helps - let us know if we can help with anything else!

Had the same question, these answers are helpful, thanks!

Hi, The penalty was automated. I have never gotten any manual penalties for the site. Thanks for taking a look at my site. I have disavowed anything noted at toxic on the semrush scale above 50. I did this over three occasions in the last 6 months. If there is still anything showing up in site explorer its probably already been disavowed. I will take a look again. And, yes, you are right. I have to double down on link building. I probably need to outpace my competitors but they are getting links from legit news outlets nowadays. The market is decent actually, the big headlines say otherwise but there are buyers at every price point for luxury real estate. The problem is getting them from the site as opposed to word of mouth. This is why I am here

Hello vtmoz, I think your questions is very difficult to answer correctly. Domains are not weighted the same. Even high quality domains are not weighted the same. Where are the links coming from DA 100 or DA 25 links. DA is more difficult to increase the higher a domain is, if you have a DA 20 site and want to increase it to a DA 30 site it would have to have a good mix of high DA links. Every ten DA after that the quality needs to be the same or higher and exponentially more links from those higher DA sites. DA 100 sites like Facebook have millions of links. If you want to see the link profiles of your competitors, use the open site explorer and research the higher DA sites and see who links to them. Then try to emulate the links that are relevant to your niche. Thanks, Don