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Thank you Robert! Let me take try your suggestions and then I will report back.

Hi Jesse, I checked our WMT account and we seem to be fine at the moment. I raised the concern about the duplicate content sites with the SEO. However, they defended their strategy, saying that because the urls are all on different c blocks, it isn't an issue. Also, said we would negatively impact our DA. I agree that it would hurt our DA because these duplicate domains represent the bulk of our linking domains. IMO this is going to catch up to us. My understanding is the only safe value of these other sits is if the content on the other sites is unique and valuable. Not to mention there are not links from any other site to the duplicate sites, only outbound links to our main site. Can you shed some light on this tactic?

This makes perfect sense and also answers my question. I think your last paragraph summed it up perfectly. Thank you, Mike!

Daniel, Sorry, C3 Media is the agency/ marketing department for Buddyrents.com. This is the site I am discussing. Thanks.

Hi Mike, Long story, short. I started monitoring the pages because the provider had a really strange answer when we asked them what sort of "maintenance" was being done each month on our FB pages and Google+ pages when we didn't see the content change. We were told that they were optimizing the pages each month to rank well on SERPS and it was all backend-not visible, but required high level of expertise. Well, I have been monitoring the pages for 2 months now and nothing has changed with the exception of the cover photo that we provided. They said the account used to create the pages had some sort of special authority (ranking juice) that gave them better results than the average user. I think it is BS too. It is starting to feel like I need to be an expert in order to keep this "expert provider" honest. Thanks for taking the time to comment!