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Hi Not a html issue. I gather you are talking about your brand site links. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en Until recently you could demote site links and see what appeared next. http://searchengineland.com/google-search-console-removes-sitelinks-demotion-feature-261002 I have not followed it closely recently, however, hope the two articles are helpful. Regards

If we are using dynamic coding so that the search results page is just one page of code for ALL cities, then I assume that we need to just add dynamic logic at the top of the page for the tag to be dynamic based on the city URL in the URL, right? Then when this one page loads for any city and any url parameter, it will just be custom, for example: URL: domain.com/tx/austin?urlparameters..... LINK: domain.com/tx/austin URL: domain.com/ca/los-angeles?urlparameters..... LINK: domain.com/ca/los-angeles Is that correct?  This will just be dynamic logic in our codebase on the one template?

Thank you so much for responding.  The CMS is a proprietary version from Cox Automotive.  I have to choose between no schema and the same schema on every page. Not really what I wanted but I really appreciate your input, it's very helpful.

HI Anna, Generally speaking, Google is pretty good at indexing only the / version of a homepage. But if you're having problems with them indexing both, you can use a canonical tag on the homepage to solve this. For more information on this, check out Moz's guide to canonicals. From a traffic measurement perspective, you can configure Google Analytics to associate metrics from both URLs with only the / version. Simply go to your filters and create a new custom filter. Select 'search and replace' and set search string as /index.html and replace string as /. Hope that's helpful!

Meh, I guess not. It's just like talking about it to clients or friends. I've made some fine noise with lots of technical words.

Its not about the canonical, its about the crawl optimization. I know that canonical URL saves the situation here, i am working under a fail safe mode in matter of duplicates and i want to believe that the canonical URL implementation is better than good in my website. I just don't want bot's spending time on pages that have nothing actual to say and are canonicalized to pages that have the important content. That is why i configured the bot to not crawl those parameters in the URL parameters tab in GWT and eventually some time to even drop those results.

Depending where you are hosted, you might find some help from them - certainly in terms of fast servers. Some of this can be handled with plugins (if you're using Wordpress) but you can also edit your .htaccess file to make some changes yourself. Just be careful with plugins though because I have seen these cause more problems than you want. -Andy

Hi, ...how much will we penalised for having the same 'Things to do' content on say up to 10 hotels + 1 location page? Simple answer is that you won't. Google doesn't have a 'duplication' penalty but anything you can do to make pages as unique as possible, is a good move. If there was nothing else on that page, then it might be a different conversation. Could this impact on the quality score of the page? It is possible and I might do things differently if I were designing the page to help avoid this (Modal popup on click?). By the looks of things, the content is towards the end of the page, so it is supplementary content rather than main. Just always try and make the pages as unique as possible and always concentrate on the usability - make it is easy to navigate as possible. -Andy

Thank you, this is helpful!

Hi Koendezutter! Dmitri has provided you with a lot of valuable information in his response. Did any of it help answer your questions, or do you need more assistance? We would love an update! Christy

Thanks for the great response, some really useful thoughts. To address your final point, the site is considerably stronger than the content creator's so it's reassuring to hear that this could be the case. Of course we'll be recommending that as much of the data as possible is curated and that the pages are improved with original content/

The domain which I used for redirection having following matrix Total Backlinks : 7.5K DA: 18 PA: 38 Spam Score: 0

If it's multisite,"someone deciding to change the domain with Wordpress and only changing the site URL" isn't something you'd concern yourself with - I only mentioned it as there was a chance they'd split a regular Wordpress site (presumably) in error. If you're using multisite this isn't a concern. Using Multisite for a single site (as the name suggests) isn't common, so there was a smaller chance of it being multisite; I just wanted to cover all possibilities.

Of course, you've acquired the domain and not the old site; that makes sense. If I was desperate I would consider scraping what content I could from cached versions of the site (I'd outsource that)- if there are no legal implications in doing so. If that isn't possible/feasible, I'd direct what you can to the most relevant pages where possible and take the hit. I think your plan to create matching pages for the top 50 pages is sound. Whatever you do beyond that with 301s is of limited value if you can't match the content so in that case, I'd consider saving some time and creating redirecting everything else to your home page (or product overview page, for example, if this is of greater value and has higher engagement potential). The best you can do in each case is match as closely as you can to the content on the new site, where that isn't possible, consider the user's experience - can you deliver them to a page of interest where you can engage and potentially convert them into customers? You should always but the user's experience first, as this is what Google values most. After all, they want to do exactly the same for their customer - deliver relevant and engaging content. Worst case, if you've captured the biggest chunk of the value with those top 50 pages, you're going to salvage some value, at least. Consider the rest a bonus. Good luck

I don't think Google penalises it. We can see # sign in many meta titles to promote they are number 1 in their sector. Like they add "#1 software for xxxxx". Even I tried it and I don't see any negative impact. I guess sings might be ignored but don't cause any drop.

Thanks, Hurf. Thanks for the excellent reply. Unfortunately, with Volusion as our web-store we don't have the option of displaying anything but the full product name on listings by category unless we engage a Volusion partner to modify our store or we migrate 80K products to a different and more complex product/option structuring model. For the sake of the clients, 12-products-per-page would be maddening. Text search is very ineffective when it comes to parsing product dimensions, so we produce long listings, sorted by size so the user can quickly locate their product. In the short term, I think it makes most sense to pay for custom programming to reduce the product description to just the dimension and quantity when displayed on a category page.

The URL that is valid is http://rushhour.net.au/bootcamp/ (rather than the .html variant) and that is being indexed and shows: BootCamp Parramatta | Outdoor Group Fitness | Rush Hour <cite class="_Rm">rushhour.net.au/bootcamp/</cite>Boot Camp Parramatta comprises of 1-hour training sessions, 3 days a week over 6 weeks. You also receive a complimentary pre and post Health Assessment. So it looks like there have been some changes recently? All appears to be in order, just give G a little time to catch up. I hope that helps.

The solution to this doesn't need to be complicated. You should keep the H1 in place across all devices. To do so, set H1 size using EM, rather than the more traditional PX. Em is a scalable unit. An em is equal to the current font-size, for instance, if the font-size of the document is 12pt, 1em is equal to 12pt. Ems are scalable in nature, so 2em would equal 24pt, .5em would equal 6pt, etc. Ems are scalable and, therefore, mobile-friendly. I hope that helps.