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Well, you say "back in the index", but we are being indexed and in fact are in the SERPs still, but the rankings have dramatically decreased across the board.  Are you saying the give them time to fix this penalty that's been placed?

Earlier in the year when we had a couple of DDOS attacks, our rankings never dropped.

Our rankings just plummeted on Tuesday across the board.  There was a DDOS attack on Tuesday and since then the rankings went down and have stayed down, even though the DDOS attack has been resolved.   Also, this is the 3rd or 4th attack they've encountered this year.

How long could this last?  How can we deal with this?

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Right, but in the post it says "The Page Authority model takes these link metrics as input (plus 36 other link metrics not shown) and predicts the SERP ordering."  Do you know where I can find these?

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Where can I find a list of all Page Authority Metrics?  I'm looking for an exhaustive list of all link metrics that calculate Page Authority?

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Post-Panda, should I worry about adding a bunch of geo-targeted landing pages at once?

It's a community, people have added their location on their profile pages.  I'm worried if we decide to make all the locations into hyperlinks that point to new geo-targeted pages, it could get us extra traffic for those geo-specific keyword phrases but penalize the site as a whole for having so many low-quality pages.

What I'm thinking is maybe to start small and turn, say, United States into a hyperlink that points to a page (that would house our community members that reside in the United States) and add extra unique content to the page.  And only add a new location page when we know we'll be adding unique content to it, so it's not basically just page sorting.

Thoughts?

Hope that makes sense.

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How can I use site explorer to find out which sites are linking to us thousands of times.  It says we have over 300,000 total links pointing to our site.  I'm thinking there are some sitewide links from other site(s) making up most of that, but I can't seem to locate it/them?

But why would the SERP preview screenshot appear different than the cached page?

We've got pages that, when I search for them in Google and click on Cache, show NO styles, nothing from the CSS.  Is there any way that could effect rankings?  I don't think so, but it does fall into the category of showing one thing to the bots and another to the user, which is bad.

Also, could blocking /scripts in robots.txt be preventing bots from accessing the CSS?

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Yea, I've seen that before.  Will that show me how unwanted pages are being referenced?

What if I need 150k pages crawled, rather than 20k?

What is a tool to use so that I can visualize all links to all pages on the site so that I can discover how certain duplicate content URLs are being created?