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I have been using Yoast SEO from the start and it hasn't helped. I already noindex subpages and tags etc. I am talking about individual posts that I am concerned are considered thin content from when I first started the blog. I cleaned up duplicate content found in Google Webmasters as well as crawl errors. My rankings keep getting worse despite a lot of quality back-links and more readers. I keep improving my site and my growth is going well but Google keeps pushing me down and I don't understand why.

Yes I am using Wordpress SEO. I already noindex subpages etc but I need to noindex individual blog posts that are probably considered thin content. Doing it one by one is going to take a long time so I am wondering how I can mass noindex 50 individual blog posts.

I noindex subpages of archives and noindex tags etc. I already cleaned up duplicate content and Google Webmasters says there are no necessary HTML improvements now.

I want to dofollow links to great blog posts or websites - NOT affiliate links. I cannot find a plugin that nofollows affiliate links. Any suggestions? Amazon does not redirect and I have a lot of Amazon affiliate links.

I don't "nofollow" affiliate links but I have quite a few. Doing them one by one would just be an impossible job. Would it be best to get a plugin that nofollows EVERYTHING? What would google prefer? I need to DOFOLLOW some links because those sites deserve it.

Moz has been very helpful but since my site was hit by Google Panda and I am getting very little organic traffic, I am thinking about having someone who really knows SEO take a look and give me some help. However, I have no idea how to find someone reputable. Any advice for hiring someone for SEO help (on a budget?)

Thanks for this excellent answer. I did a search and my site is the only one that came up in the results. The scraper site is not loading so I guess it is gone.

I think I have the rel="canonical" tags on all my pages because I have the Wordpress SEO by yoast plugin.

Thanks so much because I really don't have time for letters and lawyers.

I cleaned up the dup content which was from archive subpages and a few duplicate title tags.

The site with the DA of 73 gets 4 million unique hits a month and is one of the top personal finance blogs in the US. There are no negatives to backlinks from this amazing site.

Thanks for the two Panda related links.

Why are you assuming that my guest post was not original content? It was. There are no duplicate content issues whatsoever. The google traffic going down the day my guest post was published was just a coincidence. My point is Google Panda has hit my site unfairly and nothing is working to get my rankings back up.

Actually this is really terrible advice. I am not giving content away. The guest post was original content and only on that other blog. I got over 100 subscribers and 100 new Facebook likes from that guest post and my traffic is up. The backlinks from that guest post are also great because the DA of that site is 73. And this other blog is not a competitor. It is a supporter of my blog and that support has earned me a pretty penny.

My problem is Google Panda.

My blog was hit by Google Panda on July 21. My rankings dropped dramatically overnight. Nothing I do is helping. In fact, the day my guest post was published on one of the biggest blogs in my niche (DA over 70) my Google impressions dropped to an all time low and then got worse. (250 impressions and 12 clicks) You can see the first drop and the second drop in these screenshots and yes Google Webmasters and Google Analytics match.

http://tinypic.com/r/2dvtvlj/5

http://tinypic.com/r/4u83t4/5

I am getting more fans, subscribers, traffic etc but my Google traffic just gets worse. I would really like to get some organic traffic! But I have no idea why this is happening. I checked manual actions and there is nothing. I cleaned up crawl errors and duplicate content. I get several backlinks a week within my niche from high authority sites. I just don't get it and I am very discouraged.

What should I do?

My site tanked on July 21 and I have been working so hard to bring it back up but nothing is working. Today I looked at "Links to Your Site" on Google Webmasters and I see a copy of my site on another URL.

mysite.eemovies.org/mycategory/mypost

The domain name is eemovies.org and then all my stuff is wrapped around it and all my content is there! How do I stop this?!

That would take forever! Seriously! But I have no programming skills whatsoever.

The problem with that is it nofollows ALL external links and I don't want that.

I have a lot of affiliate links and I need to find an efficient way to nofollow them. I have over 500 blog posts and most have an affiliate link. I use Wordpress and Genesis. Any advice?

Thanks. I am trying to work on my social networking and be less dependent on google. It is just frustrating that I was doing so well and then overnight it all fell apart. Is there really no tool or website or plugin that can give me some insight into the possible problems with my site?

I do not nofollow affiliate links. I am not sure if the Google Panda update target that. Do you know how I can easily nofollow my affiliate links? I certainly cannot do them one by one.

Thanks Vadim. I suppose because my site is new, Google isn't really seeing many tweets, comments etc. A lot of my blog posts ranking in the top 3 had awesome backlinks from high DA sites. On July 21, it seems like Google decided those backlinks were worthless. I don't really understand why my site tanked as I am continuing to get backlinks and am getting more active on Facebook and Pinterest. I am on Google Plus but no one else is. I am headed to Twitter next.

I am going to continue doing everything I know will work but I am still looking for some kind of reason and solution to why Google dropped my rankings so severely and how to improve things. Backlinks are doing nothing. I just don't even know what the point of getting them is right now!

I just don't know what to do but my family really needs this income.

No. It is a new blog, I was being friendly. So is every single blog post published from now on going to show up as a nofollow comment? Why, when I just commented on one post?