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You will not be penalized for not including titles and descriptions, but Google will auto-fill them for you.

Takeshi's advice is sound if all you want is to not have these pages displayed in site links (the links under your domain when you google your domain's name). However, it sounds like what you are asking is to not have the pages displayed at all in SERPs ever. I don't quite understand the reasoning behind this, I must say. For example, if you work for Comcast and somebody googles "Contact Comcast" you should want them to land on your contact page. Same with the registration page, I would think..

That said, if you truly do not want those pages indexed you can disallow them in your robots.txt or add this tag to the header:

blogs, social media, comparison charts, infographics, something interesting. show me in a fun way how you are different than those well established brands.

That's some tough competition... Good luck!

Listen to these guys. Read that guide! Read read read read and read some more. That's the only way to do this. We can't give you cut and dry answers to your questions. There are so many facets to it, this is why it is a full-time job and a growing, evolving profession.

Dig in and get to readin'

These guys are absolutely correct. I will add that a few minor details -

I would venture to guess you saw your SERPs and PR drop sometime around mid-March, correct? This is how I know that:

http://gyazo.com/11563b72dfe2acc0133b6053cbe36fa4.png?1366837791

Look at that spike... about half of your total links were added in a matter of a few days. That's a huge red flag and Penguin will snatch that up like... whatever penguins eat. (?)

That said, you have very few links in the first place coming to your site leaving little to no opportunity to build PR. Start link building! Avoid black hat. Keep reading these forums and the SEO beginners guide here. Optimize your pages. Start a blog. Figure out what penguins eat. Do it up! For whatever reason the links you have all come from just a few select domains. Get more domains with less links from each. When Google sees 600 links coming from the same domain they get all frowny-faced.

These are but a few tips to help you. Good luck, and have fun! SEO is supposed to be fun! (no it isn't, but I think it is.)

right exactly this is what I was trying to say; so essentially the Wordpress page would be indexed and the keyword placement and optimization done by the contents of the blog in the iFrame would not lend credit to the domain but instead to the wordpress site making it less than ideal.

You are correct, sir.

You are correct. The text of the iFrames will not be crawled. However, if you are using the blog simply to gain backlinks then it MIGHT work... keyword "might." depends what people share, the wordpress link or your website link.

Why can't you put the blog on your site? I don't understand this part, my apologies. IMO there's no better place for a blog than yoursite.com/blog

+1 to option 1 and Takeshi's response.

You should consider user experience as a huge decision-making factor in this. Landing on a page the user is looking for will ultimately provide a better user experience and therefore you should go with that option. That said, it's also slightly better for SEO purposes imo.

I have 2 sites I monitor. One I was allowed to redesign and the other is a disaster. Of the two sites, they both get similar keyword ranking and similar traffic. But about 65% more leads are generated through the purdier site.

TL;DR - make it purdy, make me happy = win.

props to Matt! He nailed it.

Potentially. Depends on the directories. Directories in general carry little-to-no value and most end up hurting more than helping. Especially blog directories. Google doesn't like these sites and generally it's my least favorite method of grabbing links for SEO. Local listings is important, however, and there are some directory sites that are decent enough to warrant grabbing links from but I'd say there aren't many  more than 5 in all of the internet galaxy.

To dumb it down, if your question is simply "will building 20 links in one day get us a penalty?" the answer is most likely "no." However if the links are poison and this pattern continues, expect a penalty to be imposed eventually.

Hope this helps.

Right well you didn't really address my question at all either. I will reiterate - if you provide your domain we can better assist you and discover any problems you speak of.

Your question is not clear here, which is why I was unable to answer it and probably why nobody else has responded to your thread. (clear questions are answered quickly in this forum 99% of the time.)

So I'd suggest simplifying the question and re-phrasing it as it is unclear what exactly you're asking here. And as always, your link would help this community to answer any questions.

I will say this - if your question is "how do I rank for my targeted keywords" then the answer is to build quality content and develop real organic links. But I think you already know that. I'd worry less about anchor text, honestly. I think people focus too much on what their anchor text is these days and in reality Google is looking for a natural link profile so the best way to achieve this is let it come naturally. If your anchor text is heavily weighted already, then yes it would be good to remove those links or edit them if they're good links. Depends how weighted.

Also, if you don't have a message in GWMT about unnatural links then you probably weren't penalized for such... (*keyword: "probably.")

While I agree you should address that issue, I don't think it would have much to do with the OSE indexing. I would definitely attempt to contact a moz staffer, I think your case warrants one. Surprised they haven't stepped in with an answer yet they're usually on top of these forums.

hey Tom,

So this is weird. I went ahead and looked at the page in question and I see what you're talking about. I would question OSE's crawl of your site and direct that toward the moz-staff. Here's the reason:

The Just Discovered tool is showing a buttload of links coming to your page.. like 8 pages worth or something crazy. The inbound links section shows 2 domains... not sure what's up there.

If it were my site I'd spend more time and cross reference that with GWMT and maybe grab Majestic and AHREFS reports as well. Also, take an OSE inbound link list of the subdomain and see if the just-discovered links from the page in question show up there.

directory submission is a four letter word, far as i'm concerned.

I must admit I'm slightly confused and not sure I'm grasping a full vision of your site. As always, a link to your domain would definitely help this community be able to provide you with useful advice.

That said, the one thing that jumps out at me from your post is your discussion about changing the anchor text of internal links. You really don't need to worry about the anchor text of links located within your site pointing to other pages of your site. Anchor text/unnatural link penalties come from external domains linking in. I'm not sure if that was what you meant or not but I just want to point that out.

Without seeing your site it's hard to say, but I would just start working on some basic SEO campaigns. Optimize all of your pages, identify keywords, start a few blogs, keep fresh content coming, get social media involved, etc.

no robots file so it's not that. I do notice that your landing page has an annoying popup that forces a decision and then redirects you upon choosing it... I'm not 100% sure but that might have something to do with it. I can't seem to get past that and onto the site itself honestly. Everytime I click a selection I get to another page with a popup. 
If I were an average internet browser *(which in this instance I am) I would leave your site and not return. Poor user experience hurts ultimately, and that was what I experienced.

Not trying to be rude, just trying to be helpful. Sorry if I came off cross.

G'luck!

Yeah and to Andy's point I'd personally suggest keeping with having one page focused on each separate keyword. This way it is obvious to Google which page you want each keyword's search to land on and does not dilute your SERPs.

Cody is much more helpful and tolerant than me this morning. My apologies, I just couldn't resist.

haha jeezz.. look we can't help without your URL or any information, but what is stopping you from seeing links on your own site? all that is needed is a web browser.

you could also modify subdomains

i.e. www.company.com; orlando.company.com; seattle.company.com etc..

Whatever ramifications it had, nothing a sitemap reports is permanent. So just fix it and move on and it will quickly refresh. Be sure and submit it in GWMT just to be extra sure.