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Hey Tim! Definitely an interesting question. If the links are tagged as "nofollow" than you should be OK in general. Even if they weren't, there's a good chance that Google is simply discounting the value of the links. If you're really worried about it, you could test adding the domain to your disavow file and waiting to see if there are any positive shifts in rankings during this time. In our experience with disavowing domains, if a site doesn't pass the eye-test of "this adds value to my site", than it's generally safe to disavow. If you post the link I'd be happy to take a look!

You're welcome, Tim, and good luck!

It would appear that GSC has pretty much resolved itself. It may have simply been a glitch at the time.

Hi Tim, I am happy I could be of help. I ran into a similar issue and that was the fix it was good timing. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. All the best, Tom

Hi Tim, Great feedback! I'll pass this along to the team who works on this display. We love hearing improvements to our tools like this, so thank you for sending Kevin Help Team

Cheers all for the responses, this was pretty much what I was hoping to hear.... Thanks Tim

Wonderful news Matt, Russ and David, glad its been sorted

Haha, you wrote this as I was writing my reply to you both below. Yup! That earlier Q&A is a great resource. Screaming Frog should give you insight into where the links might have gone bad. 301 redirection is always an option as well for the few links that may be causing issues.  Cheers!

hi Tim, if you have anything that gets a lot of traffic you could move that to the new site like moz.com/rand/ this would help get the crawlers going. I will give you a full crawl and also I am sorry I just  Getting back to you. I am so sorry I did not mean to take this on and I will check your private message I've been so busy. This is something to hold onto download it and keep it fill it out keep it somewhere safe http://netdna.copyblogger.com/documents/WordPress-Emergency-Checklist.pdf SEO gadget change their name recently to builtvisible and made awesome post about how to keep link juice http://builtvisible.com/surviving-seo-site-migration/ http://builtvisible.com/domain-migration/ http://builtvisible.com/change-of-address/ https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/7-technical-seo-wins-for-web-developers/ https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/a-wordpress-theme-change-seo-checklist/ Sean Anderson at hobo SEO to let the name fool you has a great article http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/how-to-change-domain-names-keep-your-rankings-in-google/ http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/can-you-avoid-losing-google-rankings-when-moving-your-site-to-a-new-domain.html http://moz.com/blog/seo-guide-how-to-properly-move-domains http://mysiteauditor.com/blog/changing-your-domain-name-without-losing-your-rankings-a-12-step-guide/ http://www.webseoanalytics.com/blog/seo-guide-how-to-change-your-domain-name-without-losing-your-rankings/ I will reply and I strongly recommend running screaming frog SEO spider or deep crawl in fact I will go into your private message right now and start a deep crawl on your site. This will give you everything. http://deepcrawl.co.uk  I will also of course run screaming frog and send you the archives. Sorry it took so long to respond, Tom

I had this once, I checked a paragraph from our site and found an American firm using our content. Our intellectual Property Management company Demys got involved and it was quickly resolved. Other issues I have had is duplicate content on four site, check for duplicate urls which resolve to the same page using Screaming frog.

There has been a sudden leap from a couple of sites employing the same tactic. In fact one site I checked also had a very similar backlink profile (possible a sister brand to the one I mentioned in my first post above) and they too have climbed in recent weeks. I will look forward to any further insight you can provide on the matter Good luck.

Would it be possible to do a redirect from /section/index.php to just /section/ without causing a completely pointless infinite loop etc....

I think he's talking about the tactic of removing pages and simply issuing a 301 back to the homepage. That tactic is indeed devalued. If you're 301ing to a page that's on-topic it's not as bad. In this case, you're not trying to keep PR, just bounce. Remember, also, that a 301 is not perfect. It might not transfer all the link juice through. As I said before, it's ideal if you had content on the URLs they're actually linking to. From an SEO standpoint, that's gold. Dealers link to a page on your site with unique content (hopefully they're nofollowing these links). Google eats that kind of stuff up.

As far as Google choosing their own title tag, they've been doing that for years now, even to sites such as Apple.com. Barry Schwartz has written about it a few times, including at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html

Thanks Daniel, Lots of additional features & improvements still in the works - updates @rmoov Sha

I have been looking at the organic keyword search position rankings on Google. I think