Gotcha - looks like it's just seeing the paginated results as very near duplicates. If possible, you'd want to implement http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html which Google prescribes for paginated listings of results. Whether SquareSpace can do this or not is a question for them/their team. You may want to send a support request.

The good news is that these errors likely aren't causing big pains/problems for the search engines. It's best practice to fix them, of course, and Google may have a slightly easier time crawling and indexing all your stuff properly, but it likely isn't harming traffic actively.

Wish you the best!

Hi Joony - sorry for our delay! I believe that you can use ip detection to re-route Chinese IPs to the page you want. Just be aware that Google's crawling from Mountain View (even for their Chinese indices), so you'll need to provide links back and forth for manual/crawler navigation, too.

It shouldn't affect your SEO, and the plugin is a fine way to do it. You can also do it manually (lots of examples of how on places like StackOverflow, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2316307/how-to-detect-a-users-language-through-their-ip-address which is a good thread and has numerous points of advice).

Best of luck!

Hi Christine - sorry for my delay. Can you share your site or some of the pages having this issue? I can take a look and let you know the best path to take.

Wow - amazing. That's a rarity indeed. I've seen only one other case (post-Penguin) where a 301 caused a penalty.

I think your inelegant solution is likely the right one, but definitely sucks.

We're actually going to analyze them as part of a project: https://plus.google.com/u/1/111294201325870406922/posts/MMFUVjTqHYN

I expect that while many "crap" directories that existed just for SEO will be affected, these will remain high quality and generally valuable.

Thanks so much for sharing Mark! Examples like these are a gold mine for the rest of us (and good luck on moving from gray hat to white hat)

Hi Dean - not sure we could (or would want to) segment Q+A or the blog/YOUmoz to create a sub-section specifically about sites being penalized by Google spam updates. However, it sounds like some folks in this thread, like Georg below, may take this upon themselves (which is awesome).

Little known story - SEOmoz's more prominent focus on community began in earnest after a large exodus of members from another forum way back in 2004.