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Thanks. Yes - I've had a look at OSE and I do agree it's useful. I also look at the inbound anchor text - I've seen some shocking examples!!!

Appreciate the reply! Anyone else?

We're reaching out to various communities to do some link building at the moment and were wondering what people did to confirm that the links are from quality sources?

We don't want links from bad neighbourhoods or sites which have had penalties applied against them etc...

What tools can we use to find this out?

Thanks in advance for any replies!

Thank you Dana! It's something we have been considering. Do you feel that Panda specifically would be penalising for the titles and titles? Or another part of Google?

Is it your view that the issue is that we have boilerplate titles, or too many very similar skills listed? Or both?

We have hundreds and hundreds of pages with similar ads on. We are getting content written for these pages right now and we're removing some pages, but we're wondering how Panda might see the ads which we have across the site?

The ads consist of the name of a company and a description and a few other bits. The description is the same on all pages that a company's ad is listed on - and that can be hundreds of pages.

You can see some examples here:

http://www.agencycentral.co.uk/agencysearch/accounting/skills/indandcomm/financialanalyst.htm

http://www.agencycentral.co.uk/agencysearch/accounting/skills/indandcomm/financialaccountant.htm

http://www.agencycentral.co.uk/agencysearch/accounting/skills/indandcomm/assistantaccountant.htm

What we're wondering is whether Google Panda might be seeing the description of the company as internal duplicate content or just structural and not even considered as part of the Panda algorithm? Or something else? Or wouldn't it be clear in this case? Clearly Panda wouldn't hit duplicate content in nav bards, sidebars etc... but this is in the content area of the page so it did make us wonder.

This could make a difference to how we proceed so we appreciate your thoughts.

Regards,

Phil

Thanks guys

Thanks Tom

Understand your points. The idea behind noindexing is that you're telling Google not to take any notice of the page.

I guess the question is whether that works:

• Not at all
• A little bit
• A lot
• Is as good as removing the content

I believe it's definitely not as good as actually removing the content, but not sure about the other three possibilities.

We did notice that we got a small improvement in placement when we noindexed a large amount of the site and took several hundred other pages actually down. Hard to say which of those two things caused the improvement.

We've heard of it working for others, which is why I'm asking...

Appreciate your quick response

Phil

I'm wondering whether there is a consensus within the SEO community as to whether noindexing pages vs. actually removing pages is different from Google Pandas perspective?Does noindexing pages have less value when removing poor quality content than physically removing ie. either 301ing or 404ing the page being removed and removing the links to it from the site?

I presume that removing pages has a positive impact on the amount of link juice that gets to some of the remaining pages deeper into the site, but I also presume this doesn't have any direct impact on the Panda algorithm?

Thanks very much in advance for your thoughts, and corrections on my assumptions

Hehe really? I never used the filter myself before - we both know what to look for in the future if we see it again - won't be the last ones, I am sure of that

Andy

I hadn't used this and hadn't even seen it before but looks very nice - just installed on my site