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Doubtful. Running a site:holidayhypermarket.co.uk search in Google returns 10,700 results, plus from the help documentation on OSE it says, "The second thing to keep in mind that the exported data will only include the top 25 pages per linking root domain," from: http://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer/top-pages-ose So by design it's not really a tool that's trying to duplicate Google, rather make an actionable scaled down copy of what's going on.

Here's what we got: Reconsideration request for http://www.newyoubootcamp.com/: Manual spam action revoked Dear Webmaster of http://www.newyoubootcamp.com/, We have processed the reconsideration request from a site owner for http://www.newyoubootcamp.com/ and removed the actions previously applied to your site. Our review of your site indicates the violations of our quality guidelines have been resolved. You can use the Manual Actions page in Webmaster Tools to view the actions currently applied to your site. It may take some time before recent updates to your site's status are reflected on this page and in our search results. While there are no manual actions on your site, there may be other issues that could affect your site's ranking or how it appears in the search results. Google determines the order of search results using more than 200 different signals. Some fluctuation in ranking will happen from time to time as we make updates to present the best results to our users. Your site's ranking could also change based on any detected security issues. We suggest checking the Security Issues page to see if we have detected hacking on your site. If your site continues to have trouble in our search results, please see our Help Centre for help with diagnosing the issue. Thank you for helping us to maintain the quality of search results for our users. Yours sincerely, The Google Search Quality Team

I assume these are pretty deep in the site structure, so I don't think those "links" being reported are very powerful or important. Some people claim that, since PageRank is recursive, you don't want to cut off paths, but when the paths are deep I've rarely seen any evidence to support this. A big, bloated index full of thin content, especially content available on other sites, is a much bigger danger. I would not recommend using both a NOINDEX and a rel=canonical on these pages. It's a mixed signal, and that can cause Google to ignore one or both signals (and at their choosing, not yours). I think NOINDEX is fine here. I've built structures like this for things like event websites (where we index the main event but NOINDEX all of the cities/dates, because they change so often) and have never seen any major issues. Actually, in one notable case, even before Panda came along, the site's rankings improved measurably.

Thanks guys! We'e starting to add more content to each page, looks like the only way!

Great. Also remember that the disavow tool only uses the latest list you send in, "Note: Uploading a new file will replace all previously uploaded ones." from: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487, so make sure that the list you send in last is the most complete list you have. In general, I try to get a site's referral traffic up if it's not a healthy percentage of their site's visits, so if the PR company is providing that as well via their placements then they're really doing well.  Cheers!

Well, get ahead of your competition! Also, you probably need to ask the sites hosting the dodgy links to remove them. Failing this, collate and them all to the disavow file on WMT.

Could you use Mozscape to check for links to the three sites from the 50 domains? E.g. you could look at who links to three sites and filter out your fifty?: http://moz.com/products/api/pricing Otherwise, you could run multiple Xenu reports and leave them ticking over?

Check out the source code - it mentions "dolls" almost 200 times.  I know we (as humans) see the page itself but Google doesn't read it the way we do.  Jump into the code and check out what Google is reading. Also, you've bought links at some point in the past. Depending on what you cleaned up, things could still be in strife. According to Ahrefs, you have almost 2k links with about 550 referring domains - that number of referring domains tells me straight away that something is dodgy. 33 incoming .org domains, 23 .de domains, 10 info and 8 russian spam... It's not really a shock that this hasn't recovered, tbh. There's a LOT to go through. Without diving into your WMT, I can't tell you what Google sees that Ahrefs doesn't, as well. A lot of the pages are very small. I ran a quick Screaming Frog crawl on it and the page size was in general just a sentence or two per product. You're probably dealing with a bit of thin content as well.

You can use Copyscape. You can also take a small piece of the copy and wrap in quotes and enter it into Google search. I would do the latter, before the former. Copyscape costs $.05 per page.

Just to confirm mosquitohawk's comments, there's not a great way to do this other than sorting through the spreadsheet. Hopefully URLs have distinct enough subfolders that you can break them out into sections easily.

Hi, I'd agree with both Dave and Tommy but also would suggest you rewrite your on-page copy to make it more clearly about dolls' houses and dolls' house accessories. At the moment it sounds a bit like a random collection of keywords, for example: "With such a huge choice of**: Accessories, Books, Dolls, Figurines, Houses, Basements, Flooring, Glues & Scenic Materials, 12 volt Lighting & LED Lighting, Mouldings, Stairs, Plans, Play Houses, Roofing, Windows** and Doors there is sure to be something that will appeal." etc. While I as a human reader can tell that these are all accessories for a dolls house, taken as individual terms they don't seem to have much relationship to each other (in terms of targeting). This is a top level category page targeting the term 'dolls' house'. So that should be your main keyword/topic. Also a couple of those terms ('Books' and 'Flooring') are links which looks a bit weird with the exact match anchor text (esp since they are actually 'dolls' house/miniature books' and 'dolls' house flooring'.)

Hi, You won't find the X-Robots tags in the HTML of your page as they're send within the headers of a document. These details could be set via your server. That's also the place you'll have to look to change something like this. I tried to give you an example, but somehow I can't ping your site and it returns a 406 error.

Amazing, thank you

Thanks all. The page is now being indexed.

Hi There I believe I recall chiming in on the original question. I would definitely still bring up that I'm not sure this page really targets "reviews" as I don't really see reviews very explicitly anywhere on the page? Definitely need to have a good keyword -> content match to rank. Echoing Peter's good remarks, I have heard John Muller from Google in his hangouts state many times that they do not want to rank pages that pull content from other sources without offering much unique on top of that. This is part of the Panda algo and to get back ahead, the content needs to be unique and add value on top of other places you can find the same or very similar content on the web. -Dan

Hey There As other have mentioned, I would also echo that "low competition" is a little relative depending on the query. For just "anglian windows" this is a brand search and will be really tough to rank there moving forward. Even if you do, I am not sure it would get tons of clicks, because this is likely more often then not a navigational search where the user knows they want the brand homepage. For "anglian windows reviews" - maybe I'm missing this, but does your page have reviews on it? As in a collection of 3rd party authentic non-biased reviews? Unless it has something like that - or at least genuine internal reviews written by your site, it's also going to have a hard time ranking there since the query intent / content match is a little off. -Dan

Thank you all, this is brilliant.

Hi You can use the URL removal, which should work fine, but I think this issue was you were blocking crawling in robots.txt for /?id=13 http://thewilddeckcompany.co.uk/robots.txt and www http://www.thewilddeckcompany.co.uk/robots.txt If the crawler is blocked it can not see the redirect, so you would want to remove the /?id=13 from robots.txt and let Google crawl it to see the redirect, and that URL will drop out over time. Something unrelated I just noticed - you should have a better 404 template http://thewilddeckcompany.co.uk/kjhf - one that uses your site's template/design and provides something a little more useful. -Dan

Go to different conferences and meet other people from your industry. It is the best way no matter if it is gambling, betting or other topics that your website is about. Another thing you can do to build links is trying to create something that ONLY can be found on your website. I know a few that have had great success with infographics in the gambling niche.

Thanks, this is what I seem to be coming round to. I'm VARY wary about doing too many redirects though as in my experience it's a quick way to ruin perfectly good rankings. I'm thinking loads more cross linking would help, and we'll probably start with a 'related products' section on each page.