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Hi Errick, That won't hurt you at all. Please watch Matt cutts video on this @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8eQgx-njk4 Thanks

I've actually run into 1) a lot. When you search for site: you get the raw index data, not what Google will show in live SERPs. This is a problem for rich snippet text as well; when Google can read your rich snippets but chooses not to show your mark ups, the mark ups will show up in site: but not in any other searches. I was able to find the "our range" version when I was searching just now, so this is still a problem, I'm afraid. I've given you my opinion in more detail below.

Hi Adrienne, In terms of the URL not claimed error can you confirm how you are doing this - there are several reasons why this can be lost including - trying to claim more than one URL in Merchant Center - for this you need a multi-client account which I linked to in my original response. You can also lose it if your site becomes unverified in webmaster tools - what I would suggest is that you look at this Google help article in relation to this and see if any of the reasons apply to you - https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/176793?hl=en-GB

Hi Jamie, I was asked this question recently by a client and my response was that as long as your site can be crawled efficiently and read by Google having a w3c compliant site won't make a difference to rankings. I also pointed out to them that amazon.co.uk - has nearly 400 errors  and  over 100 warning when you run it through w3c validation tool but they do well in the SERPs!

I agree with Highland that this type of solution probably won't be your best choice. How much of your traffic is actually mobile? Rand Fishkin shared this post on Google+, saying that Moz wasn't worried about making the deadline since they have very little mobile traffic. Also, in this discussion here in Moz, Peter Meyers posted that this update is page-based, so if you have a smaller number of pages that are very mobile-crucial, perhaps you could fix those first, and then work on the larger fix for your website.

The files aren't duplicate. I am familiar with using the XRobots tag. I was really just curious if my theory would work. Thanks for all your input.

@Tom Roberts, your thinking is about on the same page as mine. I've always been suspect of "C-Blocks" as a ranking too.  I don't use a CMS for this site, as I said it's all hard coded. Does the nofollow tag in the head section have the same effect as a nofollow on individual links? At least PHP could solve that issue pretty easily.

Thanks again Robert, I have been really trying to perfect our site so we can get the most from it. Judging by yours and others replies, it's as good as it's going to get and any more tinkering will be splitting hairs. Thanks for the info, onto other things

ahh...thank you for your time I track the website in MOZ tools - that is where the list came from - it is a screen shot. Perhaps a MOZ staff member can shed some light on the issue? I could not replicate it either. Confused ?!?

It can take months for Google to start deindexing old URLs. Have you done a search in Google to see what pages they are still indexing? You can type in site:"Your Website" and it will give you the full results of URLs that are indexed. If there are any that shouldn't be, you can fetch and render them in GWT to force Google to crawl the 301 redirect, which should expedite the process. I am sure you submitted a new sitemap once you made all of your changes, but, if you haven't that could also help speed up the process.

Thanks everyone, The issue was with my site cloudproxy firewall. I just disable it and now Google is indexing my articles again.

Hi Eric, I am sharing one article on how site can have structured URLs. This article explained exact issue that you have mentioned in your question. http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/structured-urls/ Thanks

Hi Dino, I would like to add one very informative article and please also do check comment section of that article there is also few good suggestion with great answer of Ryan. http://moz.com/ugc/8-reasons-why-your-site-might-not-get-indexed Thanks

Thanks for the answer Ryan. Indeed the content of homepage will cover this topic.

The good news is you're not crazy - I've tested a few sites I know for sure have rel=publisher implemented correctly and it's not showing the publisher markup in the tool. I imagine it's a bug in the tool (it's a notoriously buggy tool). The bad news is there's not much to be done but wait for the tool to be updated. In the meantime, you can spot-check your markup by googling your brand regularly - sooner or later you should see the publisher markup be added to your brand SERP. You can also check your Google+ page to make sure you get the little check mark that says "verified site." Sorry I don't have a better answer for you, but I don't think there is one!

Typically for a learning center evironemnt a combination of the two can be really helpful, i.e. the video combined with the article. Here at Moz they use a transcription of their Whiteboard Fridays in order to generate searchable text in relation to the content of the video. This does two things: You get a page with more content than just the video. The text of the video becomes searchable not just for Google, but on site users. To get to other videos you can link to related ones with thumbnails within relevant articles, you can organize them into a playlists, really lots of options here... There are several learning centers / training video sites out there where you can get ideas of what will work best for you.  Cheers!

I could see at least 10 images indexed. Maybe you just have to wait a little bit more

Hi Kezzi: If the the utm pages (which are duplicates of the original page) have self-referencing canonical tags, won't they still be duplicates of the original page? For example, let's say we have: example.com/ and example.com/utm_source=tpi All these pages have hrelfang, but the pages with utm are duplicates of the original, so I would assume that we need to have example.com/utm_source=tpi have a canonical tag pointing to example.com/ In addition, example.com/nl/utm_source=tpi would have a canonical tag pointing to example.com/nl/ Thanks!

Hi Eric, You've received some great responses here! All are spot-on (as far as one can be answering this question at this time, that is.) You may also be interested to know that Dr. Pete has answered this question here in the forum at http://moz.com/community/q/google-s-mobile-update-what-we-know-so-far-updated-3-25. He actually posted a Q&A of common questions about the mobile update, taking new questions in the discussion thread, and updating the original Q&A post as new information becomes available. Christy

If you were using florida-car-insurance and then changed it to car-insurance, you should 301 redirect florida-car-insurance to car-insurance to ensure that any page equity that you may have built for the original page is preserved.