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I agree with Paul, The Google is re indexing the pages because you have few linking pointing back to these sub domains. The best idea us to restrict Google crawler by using no-index , no-follow tag and remove the instruction available in the robots.txt... This way Google will neither crawl nor follow the activity on the page and it will get permanently remove from Google Index.

Google has been lowering the value of low quality links such as non relavent guest blogging, because they dont want people to game the system. If you want to rank in Google you need to give the users what they want (value). Google has not officially announced an update, however they have been making changes, and they make about 500 changes a year. If you go to Googles webmaster forum you can see that many people are experiencing loss in rankings. You can check the weather here: mozcast.com Also, I would recommend checking out SEObythesea by Barry Schwarts.

Hi, Your robots.txt file is very .. steroid healthy. It has his own universe Are you 100% sure all of the entries are legit and clean ? First thing I would do is to check Web M;aster Tools for the mobile subdomain. If you don't have it yet, that will be a good place to start - to verify the m subdomain. Once in WeB Master Tools - you can debug this in no time. Cheers.

Here is some more information on how Google picks its top references it's really not a lot to go on unfortunately however the Google algorithm is so so complex that it will do things we could never predict sometimes http://www.seowizz.net/2010/12/google-top-references-rolling-out.html http://searchengineland.com/google-testing-top-references-refinements-in-search-results-59351 http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-pagerank I hope this is been of more help, Thomas

"First off, does the age of your site matter? Now, this is purely from an SEO perspective, in terms of if I have exactly the same effects going on, the same number of links pointing from the same places pointing to the same pages with exactly the same content. But one of those sites was produced in 2008, and one was made in 2000. Is that going to substantively change rankings? The answer is almost certainly not. Almost certainly not." I would not even worry about it. Source

Like what James said, I wouldn't de-index them.  Perhaps consider putting a call to action to get those visitors to micro-convert to an email list or put some sort of offer on them?  Just a few ideas...

I imagine this would have to do with social sharing usage. If your posts are getting a lot of attention via Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook, etc within the first few hours, you stand a chance. How long has the website been around? Do you have social sharing capabilities embedded in the site? Scott

ImplementingImplementing pen graph tags on your website ensures you optimize any social shares directly through your website.  If you are blogging on this site it's especially important to use open graph tags To control the titles, thumbs, and descriptions of items shared from your site.

This may be late, but yes you would need to add each sub-directory to GWT to set their location. If you've already claimed the main site, it should automatically verify the sub-directories for you. More info (check out the video): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en

Can you clarify a bit more? What do mean by "news product?"

You could use Google's last 24 hours option or Blekko's 'search by date' (mainly US-based stuff, I think) and see what gets the most engagement. Google News, Twitter (see which hashtags are popular) and Reddit could be used too, and the 'most read' boxes on various sites like the BBC. It's not quite search interest like Google Trends, but I bet there's a correlation. Trends and other websites (I can't think of others off the top of my head) often have a most searched for section too: http://www.google.co.uk/trends/hottrends

I don't know of any case studies, but I remembered reading a couple posts about H1's a couple months back: http://www.seomoz.org/q/multiple-h1-tags-on-same-page and another from earlier in the year: http://www.seomoz.org/q/one-h1-tag-dead-long-live-multiple-h1-tags

Very important.  Particularly if you have a large site.  We operate a large site with 100,000's of pages and as Dan said it can be difficult to maintain.  We use something called Unlimited XML Sitemap Generator which builds XML sitemaps for us automatically.  I'd highly recommend it although it takes a bit of fiddling with to get it up and running as it's software which sits on site.  We couldn't manage without it as we'd be forever on sitemaps. We found that getting sitemaps right on a large site made a huge difference to the crawl rate that we encountered in GWT and a huge indexation to follow. In particular check for 302's.  I made the mistake of leaving those for a while and am sure that we suffered from some loss of link equity along the way. Hope it helps Dawn

Michelle - we were using the API quite a bit for SEO keyword research, but eventually had the account cancelled by Google - probably because we had a relatively minor Adwords spend in relation to our API usage.  In the meantime we ended up using the SEM Rush api.  It's pretty easy to use and they seem to have access to a pretty deep set of keyword data. I know other people, including SEOMoz have had the same issue: http://www.seomoz.org/q/loss-of-google-adwords-api I tried out a few other APIs at the time.  Bings tool seemed to have potential, but it only returned very limited keyword data.  I think I looked at Wordtracker and another one, but they seemed to be quite expensive compared to other options, based on the pricing model they used.

Matt Cutts addressed this back in 2007:  http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-results-in-search-results/  Short answer: its best not to allow it as Google will drop it when they catch it so its just a waste of your time. I hope that helps!

Ya i would not over do it. Internal linking is for contextual use, although it plays a slight role in SEO its not the end all be all of SEO. IE is for user benefits to keep them on your page and find the right content. If you have 1 million pages, your goal should not be to rank EVERY PAGE. I would look at Todd Malicoats AI. He really has a vast knowledge of this See if you can view this link some people were not able to. If interested PM i can email you the videos http://www.marketmotive.com/training/tutorials/search-engine-optimization/seo-workshop-site-architecture-a-taxonomy-todd-malicoat-33009.html Best wishes, Hampig M BizDetox

You may or may not have issues, but the general consensus is that if you place the rel canonical tag to the mobile page you should be ok, perhaps try it on one or two pages and then leave it for a month or so and watch your ranking trends..... Also you could try and ask this question on the G webmaster forum to try and get a reply from a G employee. Best of luck for today and forevermore!

I have also one https://besttoasterovenguides.com/ about kitchen niche. Can someone check it's not showing any links correctly.

Very well elaborated, maybe I should have done so myself in my original response. Always try 301 to relevant pages in this situation but if the redirect rules prove a headache (and the site has little to no inbound links) to create then I would simply remove the subdomain and 301 to main domain homepage. Somewhat of a Time vs Overall Benefit issue, or in some cases a Cost vs Benefit issue. If the m.domain variant has links pointing to it then it's always beneficial to 301 the links the refering sites are pointing to - I'd try to do this as an absolute minimum in this situation. It is common for mobile versions of sites have no links pointing to them apart from redirects from the main site so in that situation a 301would likely have zero affect whatsoever.