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I've seen this happen many times, we've had clients who have received the same if not higher traffic in positions 2-4 then they did once we got them into position #1. I think many users are drawn to a clever title and description of the page not necessarily the #1 position. Like IPROdigital said as long as you are visible on page #1, I'd say about the fold, and you have a compelling title and description you are going to get some traffic that is equivalent or sometimes even better then the site in position #1.

So I realize that Google will split link equity between all links on any given page.  Example, if a landing page has 10 links then the authority from the landing page is split into 10 and each link given its own smaller amount of equity from that landing page.  My question is if I were to turn 9 of the 10 links on this page to NoFollow links would the equity still remain split 10 ways or would it simply pass all of it to the one DoFollow link left on the page?

If a URL is on hundreds of different directories would that be enough for Google to penalize a website?

Thanks Ben, but we were using both majestic seo and open site explorer to get a look at as many as we could.  With 1.5 million back links it is almost impossible to see them all anyway. I appreciate your response.

Hey there, I am working with a site who recently received an email from Google that they have been penalized.  Since I have only been working with this site for a couple of weeks I know it's from past SEO work.  I tried to pull back links for them and they have 1.5 million of them and every one I look at is a good quality site.

I did notice one thing that stood out and I need your opinion.  They have a blog in which they run about 3 ad banners and about 4 other links site wide creating several thousand links with the same anchor text and seems to be a bit spammy on the page.  However, the blog is owned by them... and the amount of same anchor text links is a very small percentage of their 1.5 million links.

Can you offer a different way for me to attempt to find these bad links?  Could their blog by itself cause the issue?  Please share your thoughts with me about this.

Sweet thanks Josh for the info.

Thanks Josh,

It is our material so no need to worry. But, if you were given the URL http://coggno.com/onlinetraining/safety-/other/lab-safety-1INde and asked how can this be indexed what would you do?

I have pages that are being scrapped and displayed in iframes and I wanted to see if anyone could tell me how I could get theses pages to be indexed here is a URL of one of the pages http://coggno.com/onlinetraining/safety-/other/lab-safety-1INde