Last Panda: removed a lot of duplicated content but no still luck!

[fablau]

Yes EGOL, I understand that my only way is to really thicken and differentiate the pages with real and unique content. I will try that and keep you posted! Thank you for your help again.

[fablau]

Sorry Marie, I forgot to answer your inquiry about music2print.com: that's one of our affiliates! That's another issue we could suffer for... how do you suggest to tackle the affiliate-possible-duplicate content? Thanks!

[MarieHaynes]

I just had a quick look but I don't see any other versions of the page you listed in the index.  If you just added the rel prev and next it won't take effect until the pages are crawled which could take even up to a few weeks to happen.

[MarieHaynes]

If there's duplicate content then you've either got to change yours, get theirs changed, or get them to use a rel-canonical tag pointing to your site or a noindex tag.

[fablau]

Actually you can see the subsequent pages still in the index, just enter on Google:

site:virtualsheetmusic.com inurl:downloads/Indici/Guitar.html

and you will see what I mean. I see though that most of those pages have been cached before I put the canonical tag, so I guess it is just a matter of time.
 Am I correct? I mean, if a page has a canonical tag that points to a different page it should NOT be in the index, right?

Thank you for looking!

[fablau]

Yes, I think will be easier to change our own contents and tell them to add the canonical tag to our page. Thanks!

[fablau]

Marie, I was thinking, do you think the new Google's Disavow Links Tool could help me with my affiliate's inbound links? I mean, in case I could be damaged by that kind of link profile...

[MarieHaynes]

The short answer to this is that this is not what the disavow tool was meant for, so no I wouldn't use it.  Affiliate links SHOULD be nofollowed though.  However, affiliate links won't cause you to be affected by Panda.  Link related issues are totally unrelated to Panda.

Unfortunately at this point though I'm going to bow out of taking this discussion any further due to time constraints. Q&A is a good place to get someone to take a quick look at your site, but if you've got lots of questions it may be worthwhile to pay a consultant to help out with your site's traffic drop issues.

[fablau]

Thank you very much Marie for your time and explanation, I appreciated it. Do you offer SEO consultation? Please, let me know.

Thank you again!

[fablau]

Never mind, I have just found your site... thank you again!