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If you add the rel="nofollow" tag in your html in the surrounding container of the link then google will not let it effect your ranking.

There is no point in creating those 3 pages with slight keyword variations when you already have all the keywords you need on your main URL.  Just make sure your content has the keywords you need and leave it at that.

3 pages with the same content but different keyword URL's looks spammy

Build your site for your users and Google will bless you for it

I have many natural earned links, thousands of them actually.

But I do have spammy rich anchor text links as well that I created years ago.

My goal is to analyze every link I have manually by visiting each one of them. I am going to create a checklist tonight of what process I will determine to detect spam. I do code so I might make a tool for myself that can help me find things quicker.

Like the purpose of this endeavor is to see through all attempts I can come up with to get myself out of the Penguin Hold. I am so determined to do this its crazy

I am willing to spend whatever time it takes even if what I do, does nothing. Then at least I know what doesn't work and move on to the next.

Thanks very helpful article, and BTW AWESOME AVATAR

change this line from RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301] to RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.domain.com$1 [L,R=301]

Exactly

Side Note: You only need to submit a reconsideration request if you have been "manually penalized"

You will know this by getting some kind of message in GWT, if you DID NOT get any message then its the algorithm that got you and that means clean things up and Good Luck!

Now that was a good answer

I like the whole re"SEO"lve thing

Well according to here the definition of Journeyman

An experienced and competent but undistinguished worker.

Wourneyman maybe?

Well I know is I did something right since 1.0 because I'm back baby! 

It's called Penguin 2.0

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That is a question that no one here can answer. We cant speak for how Google does things internally.

but.... as a web / database programmer for 14+ years let me tell you how its "generally" done

Usually when you have to link to separate sets of data together (ie. database or tables) there is usually a unique_id created to link them which usually is never changed. So when a new record is created that record will live with that ID for its life, also known as a (unique identifier which tends to be an auto-incremented number that is dynamically generated and can not be repeated).

Since records tend to be linked this way, any other fields that exist in the record (firstName, lastName, Url, blah blah) then can be changed without the original ID being disturbed.

So to answer your question from my experience I would assume Google links from a unique identifier of some sort and not the URL directly.

Hope I didn't lose you, its my favorite subject...but no one here speaks that language to much

No I am pretty sure Vale meant and Yes Jesse is right, its one of the most important things you can have so yes its very important

Im not here to say this is concrete and should never do this, and please if you disagree with me then lets discuss.

One of the biggest things out there today especially after the second wave of Penguin (2.0) is the fear striken web masters who run straight to the disavow tool after they have been hit with Penguin or noticed a drop shortly after.

I had a friend who's site who never felt the effects of Penguin 1.0 and thought everything was peachy. Then P2.0 hit and his rankings dropped of the map. I got a call from him that night and he was desperately asking me for help to review his site and guess what might have happened. He then tells me the first thing he did was compile a list of websites back linking to him that might be the issue and create his disavow list and submitted it.

I asked him "How long did you research these sites before you came the conclusion they were the problem?"

He Said "About an hour"

Then I asked him "Did you receive a message in your Google Webmaster Tools about unnatural linking?"

He Said "No"

I said "Then why are you disavowing anything?"

He Said "Um.......I don't understand what you are saying?"

In reading articles, forums and even here in the Moz Q/A I tend to think there is some misconceptions about the disavow tool from Google that do not seem to be clearly explained. Some of my findings with the tool and when to use it is purely based on logic IMO. Let me explain

When to NOT use the tool

• If you spent an hour reviewing your back link profile and you are to eager to wait any longer to upload your list.

• Unless you have less than 20 root domains linking to you, you should spend a lot more than an hour reviewing your back link profile

• You DID NOT receive a message from GWT informing you that you had some "unnatural" links

• Ill explain later

If you spend a very short amount of time reviewing your back link profile. Did not look at each individual site linking to you and every link that exists, then you might be using it WAY TO SOON. The last thing you want to do is disavow a link that actually might be helping you. Take the time to really look at each link and ask your self this question (Straight from the Google Guidelines)

"A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you, or to a Google employee"

Studying your back link profile

We all know when we have cheated. Im sure 99.9% of all of us can admit to it at one point. Most of the time I can find back links from sites and look right at the owner and ask him or her "You placed this back link didn't you?" I can see the guilt immediately in their eyes

Remember not ALL back links you generate are bad or wrong because you own the site. You need to ask yourself "Was this link necessary and does it apply to the topic at hand?", "Was it relevant?" and most important "Is this going to help other users?". These are some questions you can ask yourself before each link you place.

You DID NOT receive a message about unnatural linking

This is were I think the most confusing takes place (and please explain to me if I am wrong on this).

If you did not receive a message in GWT about unnatural linking, then we can safely say that Google does not think you contain any "fishy" spammy links in which they have determined to be of a spammy nature.

So if you did not receive any message yet your rankings dropped, then what could it be?

Well it's still your back links that most likely did it, but its more likely the "value" of previous links that hold less or no value at all anymore. So obviously when this value drops, so does your rank.

So what do I do?

Build more quality links....and watch you rankings come back

There are sites out there like http://www.noindexchecker.com/ that will help you double check your work

I don't think so, Im just saying....

Love your tools, analytic's and especially your robot. It has improved my site's performance greatly

I am integrating your mozscape API into a project of mine and I am in need of seeing if I can send and return a variable with an associated call.

For instance when I am sending some batch URL's I am requesting the [upa] and [pda] back. I am also requesting the [uu] (canonical URL) but it always seems to come back blank. So the issue I am having is if I send a batch of urls to the API how do I know how to associate a [upa] or [pda] with a link?

My thoughts are if I could send a ID with a link and return that ID back then I know how to associate the [upa] or [pda] with that particular link.

Anyone know?

I wouldn't be worried about links like this, there are so many out there I think Google understands they can't penalize every site that has one of these. Every site on the internet would be hit

Keep an eye on those directory sites. I know in my first hit from Penguin 1.0 I found tons of directory links that were just spammy.

When you click on the "Submit Link" see if you can pay for the links. If you can then get rid of those links asap. Many of these directories are hard to get a hold of someone so I have had to disavow many of these links. I have a link of a text file that I add too of spammy directories I have found and I continue to add to it.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2659865/spammydirectories.txt

Directories while many may be safe, this late in the game of Penguin you are better of without them IMO.

Only a handful are safe:

• dmoz.org
• yahoo.com
• business.com

Go to webmaster tools and find all those directories...

I suspect that Google poses as users trying to see if companies/websites will sell them links. Its the Google version of Chris Hanson "To Catch A Black Hatter"