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I see you have 2 responses from SWD and SanketPatel. They are both different strategies and you need to decide what you want to do as a Business. Here's why:

If you adopt SWD's solution, you could technically get rid of the problem, by telling Google that do not index page 2, page 3 and so on and just index your page 1. My question would be, do you have a View All page ? Do you want search engines to index and rank each one of your paginated pages ? Do they have unique collection of products and does it help the user if they land directly on Page 2 or would you rather then have land on Page 1 always ?

SanketPatel's solution definitely gets rid of the problem from a GWT perspective, however, the bigger question is, what you are trying to achieve and what your users would prefer.

Instead of looking it it from what's right in GWT or SEO, find what's right for your user first and then implement that in an SEO Friendly way.

I hope that helps and makes sense.

The question remains open for answers anyways...but you may want to post it as an ongoing discussion instead of a question. I don't think there's anything that can be done except to post it again.

What's the different between the 2 links you posted ?

1 and 2 you posted in your question are 100% same.

In this case, I'd ask you, is your domain .za ? Is it hosted in South Africa ? Does it make sense to do either of these ?

Just look at the kind of keywords people use to hit your internal / deep pages from Search. Specially your brand keywords and you could target some of those. Just make sure you are not doing too many of the same kinds of links.

You could also do:

"My Brand Name" + Red

Red + "My Brand Name"

Red Widgets at My Brand Name

Red Widgets by My Brand Name

My Brand Name Red Widgets

Red Widgets Partial Brand

and so on.

Looks like a whole bunch of Webinars are coming and there was a PRO webinar today which is available and since you are PRO, you should be able to access it.

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I agree with Kristina one 100%. She rocked with the 2 perfect solutions you ought to be looking into.

The pages that the webmaster tools are reporting, when you click on them, do you see the 404 pages ? Are these pages supposed to be 404's ? Something like Out of stock, discontinued products or services etc ? Also, click on the details and see how is Google finding these pages. Are these included in the sitemap or are they linked from somewhere ? Are those links internal that you control or external ?

If internal, change/update/remove those links. If external, can you send a request to the website owner to update them or do a 301 redirect for that page to a relevant page if you have one.

I hope this helps.

John

In that case, unfortunately there's not much you can do. If their main domain or network has been penalized and you are part of it, there's not much you can do about it unfortunately.

Keyword rankings for your homepage =  Yes. Because your homepage technically does not exist and is redirected to an inner page, which is focused on a particular city. So if your keyword is Bharat Desi, which is your website brand name, it shows:

<cite>www.bharatdesi.com/</cite>

Hyderabad Classifieds, Hyderabad Yellow Pages, Free Classifieds Hyderabad, India, Free Hyderabad Classifieds Online Classifieds Hyderabad, Free **...**And if your keyword is a regional keyword, like Houston Desi, then that page is not affected. In this case, this redirect is helping your Hyderabad page, because technically you are telling Google that hyderabad page is your homepage.Does that make sense ?

You are right on being concerned about it. It's not an issue. The tool is making sure you are aware that there's a canonical tag. That's why it's a warning, not an error, specially because this is a very very important directive and something that the bots see, not the user's and can also sometimes cause hacks and other malicious attempts.

Again, there's nothing wrong with it. No need to worry.

It really depends how they are being served to the users and the bots. do you always display them ? Why is it causing a 403 / Forbidden error code ?

Post / PM me the URL and that would make it easy to check and suggest accordingly.

It looks like it's your images or something like that generating that link within Wordpress. Looks like image attachments to me.

Right below the first paragraph on your page (Right after This continues the healthy growth seen in September, and for most of this year.), you'd notice a Grey box. That's a missing image linking to the page you are talking about.

The code on your page says:

<a href="[http://carwoo.com/blog/october-sales-robust-stateside-european-outlook-poor-for-ford/954bf0df0a0d02b700a06816f2276fa5/](view-source:http://carwoo.com/blog/october-sales-robust-stateside-european-outlook-poor-for-ford/954bf0df0a0d02b700a06816f2276fa5/)"  rel="<a class="attribute-value">attachment wp-att-7997</a>"><img class="<a class="attribute-value">alignnone size-medium wp-image-7997</a>" title="<a class="attribute-value">954bf0df0a0d02b700a06816f2276fa5</a>" src="[http://carwoo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/954bf0df0a0d02b700a06816f2276fa5-420x264.jpg](view-source:http://carwoo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/954bf0df0a0d02b700a06816f2276fa5-420x264.jpg)" alt="" width="<a class="attribute-value">420</a>" height="<a class="attribute-value">264</a>" />a><br />

I would also suggest checking Google Trends for any seasonality etc.

If it's great content, it might make more sense to keep it on your website. Some blog posting is okay, but too much of any one kind of links will only cause issues, both short term and long term. Think about Directory Links 5 years ago. Everybody got 500 Directory Submissions for $50 and so on, and those are the kinds of links people are getting Unnatural link warnings for.

So I'd recommend evaluating your link strategy and only build quality links, rather then faster links, instant approval links, focus on quality and user engagement vs quantity.

I hope this helps.

Well, it looks like you are redirecting your homepage to http://www.bharatdesi.com/hyderabad which to me does not make sense. Think of the user here first, SEO comes next.

All your city links in the footer work fine it seems. But if somebody gets to your homepage, it defaults to Hyderabad. If I were you, I'd just do a simple page with your logo on it on the homepage, with the links to the cities you have in your footer. That should do the job of being your homepage while your real homepage gets designed.

I hope this helps and makes sense.

Do you not even own the domain name in question ? As Paul recommended, you can also add a DNS record via your domain registrar to verify your domain for Google Webmaster Console access.

Does this campaign show up in your archived campaigns by any chance at http://pro.seomoz.org/campaigns ? If not, you only have a few more hours before SEOMoz team should be able to check for you.

Good luck. I hope you get it back, although the chances look slim.

Even if you do the dynamic meta data, that does not sound like a lot of duplication can be avoided between the 30,000 city/state pages.

Is the content on these pages unique ? I mean the set of products returned, are they just unique collections or what ?

You said these pages are showing up as duplicate content ? Where are they showing as duplicate content ?

Do your stronger pages, homepage, category pages rank for your head keywords ? Do they rank very very well ?

It really depends upon the overall domain authority and what other stuff is going on your website.

Chenzo, I don't see any effect on any of my e-com as well as non e-com keywords. Do you see anything ?