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Hi,

When I Google a restaurant name here in the UK - try "fat duck bray" I see the photo of the restaurant on the right hand side, the Zagat review score and then right at the bottom of this section there is "More Reviews" with links to Urbanspoon,com, qype.co.uk, Zagat.com and Blackbookmag.com (often TripAdvisor will appear here too.)

To one of the sites I work with these are all the competition so the natural question is how would one appear here? I've never seen anything covering this before so interested if anyone else has read anything on this or has any experience on this.

Thanks in advance for any answers.

Your not the only one. I have observed this with some of my clients. Looking across the results no one in the local results also appears in the natural results any more. Maybe this is a also change where its either one or the other for the 1st page.

Hi,

I have a site that I believe has been impacted by the recent Panda updates. Assuming that Google has crawled and indexed several thousand pages that are essentially the same and the site has now passed the threshold to be picked out by the Panda update, what is the best way to proceed?

Is it enough to block the pages from being crawled in the future using robots.txt, or would I need to remove the pages from the index using the meta noindex tag? Of course if I block the URLs with robots.txt then Googlebot won't be able to access the page in order to see the noindex tag.

Anyone have and previous experiences of doing something similar?

Thanks very much.

Hi Adam, thanks for your response.

There is an XML sitemap submitted and GWMT shows a total number of indexed pages in the 800'000 region.

While I appreciate site: is not a precise tool, the fact that the site: numbers between trailing slash and no trailing slash match for virtually every other domain I try this with, and the numbers are so different in this example, suggests to me that this could be an indication of something amiss.

I noticed today that a site: query in Google (UK) for a certain domain I'm looking at returns different numbers depending on whether or not the trailing slash is added at the end. With the trailing slash the numbers are significantly different. This is a domain with a few duplicate content issues.

It seems very rare but I've managed to replicate it for a couple of other well known domains, so this is the phenomenon I'm referring to:

site:travelsupermarket.com - 16'300 results
site:travelsupermarket.com/ - 45'500 results

site:guardian.co.uk - 120'000'000 results
site:guardian.co.uk/ - 121'000'000 results

For the particular domain I'm looking at the numbers are 19'000 without the trailing slash and 800'000 with it! As mentioned, there are a few duplicate content issues at the moment that I'm trying to tidy up, but how should I interpret this? Has anyone seen this before and can advise what it could indicate?

Thanks in advance for any answers.

Your not the only one. I have observed this with some of my clients. Looking across the results no one in the local results also appears in the natural results any more. Maybe this is a also change where its either one or the other for the 1st page.