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Very interesting. I'm also convinced the "not selected" graph is a big clue towards a Panda penalty. I guess I will have to wait another couple of weeks to see if our changes have affected the graph. Maybe this time lag is why it can take upwards of 6 months to get recover from Panda!

Hi Mozzers.

I am working with a very large E-com site that has a big issue with duplicate or near duplicate content. The site actually received a message in WMT listing out pages that Google deemed it should not be crawling. Many of these were the usual pagination / category sorting option URL issues etc.

We have since fixed the issue with a combination of site changes, robots.txt, parameter handling and URL removals, however I was expecting the "not selected" graph in WMT to start dropping.

The number of roboted pages has increased by around 1 million pages (which was expected) and indexed pages has actually increased despite removing hundreds of thousands of pages. I assume this is due to releasing some crawl bandwidth for more important pages like products.

I guess my question is two-fold;

1. Is the "not selected" graph cumulative, as this would explain why it isn't dropping?

2. Has anyone managed to get this figure to significantly drop? Should I even care? I am relating this to Panda by the way.

Important to note that the changes were made around 3 weeks ago and I am aware not everything will be re-crawled yet.

Thanks,
Chris

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As I thought. Thanks all.

Does anyone know a definitive answer to this? I'm thinking they will still show up in WMT links to your site? Anyone seen anything different?

Thanks,
Chris

Hi guys, the country subfolders will serve the correct country content by ip and also be geo-targeted in WMT and on-page metas. All of the English speaking duplicate content will then be canoncialised into one root page, consolidating authority.

Cheers

"I guess Chris is doing this as a way to target specific countries?" - Correct

Thanks for the answers guys, thats perfect

Hi all,

I am led to believe that link juice does not pass through more than one 301 redirect, however what about a 301 and then a canonical meta tag? Here is an example:

subdomain.site.com/uk/page/ -> 301 -> **www.**site.com/uk/page/

www.site.com**/uk/**page/ -> canonical -> www.site.com/page/

Thanks,
Chris