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Hi Paul, Bing is much less confused, and we'll sit tight - but many thanks for the change of address tool suggestion - we had missed that! Best, Richard

I had same that message during my midway battle clearing a penatly. Google said that they were being "extremely granular", however, they said that we should send another reconsideration request if we had made any further process in cleaning up the links. We all got very excited at this point, however, despite some improvement we didn't get back to where we should be (taking into account that we lost 1000s of bad links). Rankings started to drop again so.... From this point we sent a further 3 reconsideration requests. 2 were rejected and the final one (after all spammy links were finally removed (thank you disavow tool!)) was accepted. "we have revoked the penalty on your site". So from experience I would not stop cleaning up the site just because you received that message.

Did you create these links?  Likely not. Every site has a bunch of aggregator sites that link to them and Google knows that.  What Google is looking for when divvying out penalties is obvious attempts at manipulation. I wouldn't worry about them!

Thanks for the help guys. I have been 301'ing to a seperate domain rather than somewhere else on the same site. I'll speed up the removal of the old content, thanks Ben!

Below is a list of sites that accept infographic submissions: http://dailyinfographic.com http://visualoop.tumblr.com coolinfographics.com http://www.scoop.it/t/awesome-infographics/ http://dailyinfographic.com/ http://fuckyeahinfographics.tumblr.com/ http://iheartinfographics.tumblr.com/ http://infographic.co.za/ http://infographicsbin.tumblr.com/ http://infographicsgenerator.com/ http://infographicsite.com/ http://infographipedia.com/ http://infographr.tumblr.com/ http://submitinfographics.com/ http://theinfographics.blogspot.com/ http://videoinfographic.com/submit-infographic/ http://visual.ly/ http://www.bestinfographics.co.uk/ http://www.bestinfographics.info/ http://www.cloudinfographics.com/ http://www.infographicas.com/ http://www.infographicgallery.com/ http://www.infographicpost.com/ http://www.infographicsarchive.com/ http://www.infographicsshowcase.com/ http://www.pureinfographics.com/ http://www.omginfographics.com/ http://www.coolinfographics.com/ http://chartporn.org/ http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/infographic Rob. <colgroup><col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 8561; width: 181pt;" width="241"></colgroup> | http://dailyinfographic.com | | http://visualoop.tumblr.com | | coolinfographics.com | | http://www.scoop.it/t/awesome-infographics/ | | http://dailyinfographic.com/ | | http://fuckyeahinfographics.tumblr.com/ | | http://iheartinfographics.tumblr.com/ | | http://infographic.co.za/ | | http://infographicsbin.tumblr.com/ | | http://infographicsgenerator.com/ | | http://infographicsite.com/ | | http://infographipedia.com/ | | http://infographr.tumblr.com/ | | http://submitinfographics.com/ | | http://theinfographics.blogspot.com/ | | http://videoinfographic.com/submit-infographic/ | | http://visual.ly/ | | http://www.bestinfographics.co.uk/ | | http://www.bestinfographics.info/ | | http://www.cloudinfographics.com/ | | http://www.infographicas.com/ | | http://www.infographicgallery.com/ | | http://www.infographicpost.com/ | | http://www.infographicsarchive.com/ | | http://www.infographicsshowcase.com/ | | http://www.pureinfographics.com/ | | http://www.omginfographics.com/ | | http://www.coolinfographics.com/ | | http://chartporn.org/ | | http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/infographic |

This is why I love this forum. We recently started seeing these urls in our GWT report. We have hundreds of truncated urls that end in "..." that go nowhere. We can't figure out where these are coming from. We thought it could be G's relatively new privacy policy w/ not passing along the data, but we're not sure. Anyone have any thoughts on that? Thanks!

Thanks for the responses guys. @oznappies: I'll have the canonical line at the top for best practices and so it's visible. @Ryan - My CMS has the option to noindex/nofollow too as there are some pages we don't want indexed. Thanks for the heads up about the WMT/Bing method though.