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How long ago did you create the page? I can see a Twitter feed on page 2 referring to you. Perhaps the actual page has not been indexed as yet? Have you checked in webmasters?

Have you tried manually submitting a few of the links to see what their 'status' is in webmasters? I find this topic so vague as there is nowhere to actually get a solid answer from Google. It would be great if there was a facility to test these exact kind of issues.

I received an error from Webmasters this morning "touch elements too close" relating to the mobile version of a page. I cannot see what they are referring to:

http://carhire-southafrica.co.za/car-hire-durban/

As far as I can see all the elements are perfectly positioned? Maybe I am blind and hopefully fellow MOZ guru's can assist

I totally agree with Ryan. Let sleeping dogs lie

Personally I would find a way of thinking laterally about generating new and unique content for your existing and potential users. "Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new," according to marketing guru Rory Sutherland. This rings true with content.

This seems to be a tough one - similar in many ways to an e-commerce site. As far as Im aware the canonical link will only work on the same domain, I stand to be corrected. In terms of duplicating the content you will end up being penalized by Panda at some stage.

Im assuming your pages have been crawled? Obviously if Google has crawled them they will be flagged as having errors. Once they are repaired Google will crawl them again. You should be fine if it is only for a few days.

Personally I would start afresh. Your content has been flagged as Spam by Google's algorithms. If they crawl your new site it will basically end up with the same result.

Adding to Hutch 24 I have fund that all in 1 seo plugin by Michael Torbert is very powerful plugin which could be of assistance

i want to say here that I have a competitor website who is ranking VERY well for spammy low ranking backlinks and he seems to continue to evade any penalties. Its very frustrating for those of us who try to adhere to preferred standards.

Mindlink has it nailed. Concentrate on your on-site SEO firstly. An important foundation is critical. Once your foundation is solid you can then look at building inbound links. MOZ has some excellent articles on these topics.

I use livezilla for a few of my ecommerce customers on Opencart platform. I have also used Casengo on my wordpress installations which I found very powerful and it included a mobile app feature allowing me to respond to queries anywhere anytime.

I find it amazing that we all strive to acquire rank in Google using suggested SEO standards to avoid their dreaded updates, yet they themselves cannot even get it right!

Thanks for the response Don. I will certainly give that a test.

We are often being preached to not get backlinks to dodgy or spammy sites but how do we identify these sites?