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As we have 10K+ pages indexed already we set as Noindex and expect the search engines to drop off those pages after which we can block via Robots. if i do the indexed pages will not be dropped right? Also URL removal request for 10K pages 1 by 1 is going to be tedious

Weirdly enough, I've just been answering the same point in another question:  http://moz.com/community/q/can-we-retrieve-all-404-pages-of-my-site The link above has a few more options, but this bit is the most directly relevant to your question: Analytics : As long as your error pages trigger the google analytics tracking code you can get the data from here as well.  Most helpful when the page either triggers a custom variable, or uses a virtual url ( 404/requestedurl.html for instance).  Isolate the pages and look at where the traffic came from.

The 404s in webmaster tools relate to crawl errors. As such they will only appear if internally linked. It also limits the report to the top 1000 pages with errors only.

1. Yes, worry. 301 those old page to your new page or new web site. 2. I don't know if this is a question but I'm assuming you're talking about the links from the first question and whether they are meaningful. I say yes. Nofollow links are a critical component to a solid link profile. 3. I would not worry about this. Again, a natural link profile will have anchor text that is not ideal.

No follow links to all login pages and noindex meta tag all login pages.  Just keep those login pages etc out of the index.

Ah, thank you for the clarification. In that case, here are somethings you do: Review the on-page SEO of the articles and see if they are fully optimized for the keywords.  If not, then optimize the pages, but try not to fall into the trap of over-optimizing. Update the articles and republish them.  Freshness can affect rankings. Create a new version of the article and publish that.  I'm not talking about spinning, but rather if it's been a while since the article was written and perhaps there are some new things that could be added or old things that should be removed, you could create a new version.  In fact, in some situations, you may have articles that can be redone every year. Try to build some links to the articles. Share the articles on social networks and with bloggers in your niche who  might find the articles interesting and useful. Kurt Steinbrueck OurChurch.Com

Gotta agree with you on this. Having a "blanket" rule to render all links nofollow will certainly help to discourage spammers, but may not help in encouraging contributors. Everybody loves a little incentive here and there. Many popular forums, including Moz Q&A, have adopted structures to remove "nofollow" tag in links or include more links for top quality contributors. You might want to consider adopting such a structure for your forum.

Hi there, As with what Kevin mentioned, I'm not sure why would want to include dummy links in your posts. The only plausible reason I can think of is that your website is teaching HTML or you are creating dummy design pages. If you would like to ensure your posts are SEO optimised, you may want to include a rel="nofollow" tag in these dummy links, while linking them to actual websites that of irrelevance (e.g. linking to Google or an internal link). Adding this tag will tell search engines not to follow this link, which thereby won't affect your pagerank. This should help you get started if you have not used the tag before: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

You can also rel=canonical to the old URLs to the new URLs.  by adding that directive in the page headers of the affected pages.  Eventually you can either delete those old URLs, or, for the ones that have external links going to them, add 301s to the new pages. Canonicalization and the Canonical Tag - Learn SEO - Moz

If those pages are only accessible to logged in users then you could block them in robots.txt .  If you nofollow the links pointing to them as well then it will stop the urls getting indexed by Google.  I'd assume that moz would then honour the same and stop returning that error.

If you have a 301, you use the 301, done, mission accomplished.  Google should drop the original page and start to use the new page in its place in the SERPs.  This is also automatic for the user as they are moved from one page to the other.  One thing, you want to make sure that the page that you are sending people to is semantically related to the page that they were sent from, otherwise you risk losing rank in the SERPs. If you use the 301, there is no original "page" that you can put the canonical or a noindex. If you could not 301, you would want to only use the canonical.  Google usually will treat a canonical like a 301. If you use a canonical, you should not have to use the noindex.

The idea in engaging with people in forums is to drive traffic, become a source of information and eventually achieve sales. been there done it. Do not focus solely on link building, SEO now is more of a complete digital marketing package than link building. Unfortunately I do not remember the source I saw this but I am 99,9% sure that signature links might be penalised by Google so i wouldnt go with that direction (should you insist in pure link building ofcourse).

I think the answer depends on why you are wanting them gone.  If you have been given a manual penalty and have a warning message in your Webmaster Tools then you need to try to contact each of these sites to get them removed and then disavow the rest.  If you don't have a manual penalty and are trying to avoid an algorithmic issue like Penguin then disavowing these is enough. For those urls you showed above, none of them resolve so they probably don't need to be dealt with. If you have a bunch of spam links that are not created by you then other than disavowing them you really shouldn't have to worry about them.  Check out this webmaster hangout: http://youtu.be/BAcEz_-ujCw?t=9m30s.  At the 9:30 mark John Mueller talks about a case where someone is concerned that a competitor is pointing thousands of spammy links at their site and John's answer is not to worry about them because the algorithm is already ignoring them.

If you delete the page (URL) with the link (clickable words that takes the visitor to another URL), Google will eventually recognize that the URL no longer exists and drop it from the index. That may take anywhere from a few days to a month or more. Once the URL is out of the index, whatever links were on that URL won't count against you. You may use the URL removal tool in Google webmaster tools to try to speed up the process of removing the URL from the index.  There is no need to use the disavow tool for a URL that resolves to a 404 page.

Is it always the same number (15633)? Are those pages dynamic or static? If they are static yes, you will need to add the canonical and noindex meta to each page. If they are dynamic just in one page while build the code to display the appropriate canonical href and NOT to show the noindex when the user is seeing the page you actually want indexed.

Exactly my point. You show the "http://www.domain.com/login?return=the-actual-linked-page" to non-logged in users and bots. while you show "http://www.domain.com/the-actual-linked-page" to logged in users. By doing that you don't have any 3XX redirects.

I can partially answer your question and safely say that business2community do not accept anchor text links anymore and huffington post need proper journalist application before you contribute content. Not sure about the rest but I suspect it is going to be the same as they have a very high PR and obviously will not allow just random guest blogging. Not sure about PR, maybe someone else can advise.

Thank you Gagan!