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Should all be working now. Thanks

Moz Community,

Thanks for the feedback. This was a genuine response to the question 'What penalty might have hit here?'. Just thought it may have given some added insights. Don't even want to get into the workings of the tool as you have pointed out, this is not the right place to do so.

Thank you for understanding!

What is your URL we will check it out?

Jellyfish have a free Google penalty checker http://www.jellyfish.net/seo-tools/google-penalty-checker it does a quick search engine penalty check and lets you know whether or not the site has been penalized by any of the Google algorithm updates from Panda or Penguin.

Rand,

Do you still stick by this, or have you noticed a shift in the metrics given the update from Matt Cutts on this very subject.

Should I structure my site using subdomains or subdirectories? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk

Afternoon All,
We are using Concrete5 as our CMS system, we are due to change but for the moment we have to play with what we have got. Part of the C5 system allows us to attribute our main page into other categories, via a page alaiser add-on. But what it also does is create several url paths and duplicate pages depending on how many times we take the original page and reference it in other categories. We have tried C5 canonical/SEO add-on's but they all seem to fall short.

We have tried to address this issue in the most efficient way possible by using the rel=canonical tag. The only issue is the limitations of our cms system. We add the canonical tag to the original page header and this will automatically place this tag on all the duplicate pages and in turn fix the problem of duplicate content. The only problem is the canonical tag is on the original page as well, but it is referencing itself, effectively creating a tagging circle. Does anyone foresee a problem with the canonical tag being on the original page but in turn referencing itself?

What we have done is try to simplify our duplicate content issues. We have over 2500 duplicate page issues because of this aliasing add-on and want to automate the canonical tag addition, rather than go to each individual page and manually add this tag, so the original reference page can remain the original.

We have implemented this tag on one page at the moment with 9 duplicate pages/url's and are monitoring, but was curious if people had experienced this before or had any thoughts?

We have a client that we run campaign sites for. They have asked us to turn off our PPC and SEO in the short term so they can run some tests. PPC no problem straight forward action, but not as straight forward to just turn off SEO. Our campaign site is on Page 1, Position 4, 3 places below our clients site. They have asked us to effectively disappear from the landscape for a period of 1-2 months.

Has anyone encountered this before, the ability to delist good SERP for a period of time?

Details: Very small site with only 17 pages indexed within google, but home page has good SERP result.

My issues are,

1. How to approach this in the most effective manor?

2. Once the delisting process is activated and the site/page disappears, then we reverse the process will we get back to where we were?

Anyone encountered this before?

I realise this is a ridiculous question and goes against SEO logic, get to page 1 results only to remove it, but hey, clients are always presenting new challenges for us to address.....

Thanks