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Authority links are only one part of the equation. Regardless of source, Penguin looks quite heavily at anchor text. If the majority of anchor text pointing to your site is exact-match non-branded stuff, then it's entirely possible that Google could look on this as an attempt to manipulate rankings artificially. Without seeing more, I can only tell you that it's happened before and may be possible, especially if many of your links are from the same site.

Any ideas, any working with photographers using zenfolio? or sites with large amount of sitewide links point back??

I think you are right in observations and thanks for response. The url is generated when someone puts in a search for a location.  it searches the items in that location then shows the embedded map with the flags plus the searched items. Yes Google should index the url's.  Long Url being generated as per example above. This is generated when someone puts in a location search and the location items appear. Thanks Jaz

Hi Sean, Thanks for your response. the urls' are different so i also thought this may be an issue. But from reading in the webmaster guidlines if the sites are targeting a different international audience google may recognise this and distribute pages accordingly to a local audience rather than penalise. I think the issue i have is that they are differnt url's and im concerned this maybe seen as duplication. So xyz.co.nz and abc.co.uk but both using the same content on 1,000+ pages. Id appreciate all input from anyone that reads or particularly anyone thats faced this scenario. Thanks Zak

Hi Jazavide! This is Megan from SEOmoz. Sorry about the troubles finding your duplicate URLs! If you click into the duplicate content error, there's a section that says 'other URLs' with numbers that you can click on. Here's a screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/617gjHQFx34 Once you click on these numbers, you'll be able to see the URLs that are duplicates.  You can also find this information by exporting your crawl diagnostics to a CSV: http://screencast.com/t/dS0ptEPx We also have a great resource for learning more about the crawl diagnostics section of your campaign in our Help Hub: http://www.seomoz.org/help/crawl-diagnostics I hope this helps!

Modesto has a great post about moving servers at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos that should help you out a bit.

You'll probably want to disallow spiders from crawling them with robots.txt: http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

Hi Tina, You think all xml feeds produce duplicate content to the sites they are going into? The site the feed is coming from in this case is not neccessarily the most important one for this excercise.  The hundred plus other sites that will use the feeds on their pages are all customers so working out the pro's and con's for them displaying a large amount of data via the xml feed in their pages. I could use the canonical tag, this would have to be set up on original site that has feed. The 100+ sites using the feed want to know if there pages can be indexed with the xml feed on to be found in the search engines, or is this duplicate without the canonical link? For the purpose of this, the sites cannot create unique content.