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Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks!

Hi, You won't find the X-Robots tags in the HTML of your page as they're send within the headers of a document. These details could be set via your server. That's also the place you'll have to look to change something like this. I tried to give you an example, but somehow I can't ping your site and it returns a 406 error.

Hi There I believe I recall chiming in on the original question. I would definitely still bring up that I'm not sure this page really targets "reviews" as I don't really see reviews very explicitly anywhere on the page? Definitely need to have a good keyword -> content match to rank. Echoing Peter's good remarks, I have heard John Muller from Google in his hangouts state many times that they do not want to rank pages that pull content from other sources without offering much unique on top of that. This is part of the Panda algo and to get back ahead, the content needs to be unique and add value on top of other places you can find the same or very similar content on the web. -Dan

Hi Ennick, How long has it been since you set up the new GA account that the former vendor doesn't have access to? I ask this because I think removing the vendor's access to your GA data is possibly more important than removing their access to your GWT. Yes, you could muck things up through GWT, but that would only be done vindictively, for no other purpose than to hurt you. If the vendor starts working for your competitors, though, continuing to give them access to your data through GA offers an insane amount of details that could potentially be used against you. I recommend that you shut down the agency GA account. Download the historical data, like Patrick recommends, for reports where you need it, but as you move forward with your new account, you'll probably focus on month over month or year over year comparisons, and eventually you'll rarely use it. Good luck! Kristina

That's up to you. There's no guide that can tell you how many times to contact a Webmaster or how often. Just try with the available means: email (if any), social (if any), phone??. The important thing is to document your process, responses, and actions taken (link removed, wants to charge me to remove it, no response - disavowed, etc). The more you wait from the moment you start your analysis and the moment you request the reconsideration the worse it becomes. Sometimes, Google finds links that they were not part of the previous file you downloaded. Recommendation: once you are done with the assessment, do it again, but really fast and only with the new links (under WMT), then send your disavow (you can wait a few days now), ask for reconsideration. And don't feel bad if Google responds with a negatory with 2 new links that were never listed in previous exports... it happens almost every time.

Yeah, I'd really tackle this error first, as the other one could be a false alarm. It sounds like you've got multiple canonical tags on a single page, which Google can't interpret very well (and that might just ignore it or use the wrong one). This often indicates that your CMS is double-placing tags and could signal broader problems.

I second what Michael is saying.  More content is better.  Your page has 346 words of content.  The top #1 result has 1,399 words of content. So, taking a look at your site vs. other sites... The other sites that rank ahead of you all have the keywords you are trying to rank at the beginning of the title tag.  Yours starts four words in. (see screenshot) The 1st ranked result has the keywords in the title tag, and in the page name (not directory) www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda15-a-link-between-worlds-walkthrough.php Same thing for the 4th ranked result: www.linkshideaway.com/a-link-between-worlds-walkthrough/‎ Your page has 346 words of content; the top #1 ranked page has more than four times that amount of content at 1399. Sometimes Google will rank pages well that have short content. In this case, I think that Google's algorithm is determining that a site that has lots of content, graphics and information is somehow more useful to the end user. My recommendation... agreeing with Michael, above, is to beef up the amount of content on your page, and include a few more screenshots. I know that this is tricky for something that you are selling, when what you are selling is the content.  It's a balancing act. I have a page that I wrote for an extremely competitive term that ranks very well.  It has more than 12,000 words of content and 80+ screenshots.  Does everyone who lands on the page read all 12,000 words, or watch the 48 minute video?  No...  But it outranks other pages that are just a few words of content. link-between-worlds-screenshot-Google-results.jpg

Good Morning! Unfortunately, the results you are seeing are consistent with a tweak Google made a few weeks back that has brought up some extremely low quality one boxes. The tweak is surfacing many old, spammy results like the one you've highlighted. Here are two good discussions of this weird phenomenon: http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/google-local-important/10000-attack-bad-google-local-one-boxes.html The above forum thread in 8 pages long, and I recommend you read the whole thing, as it includes many examples and, also, some things people have tried in regards to reporting the bad results. Then, I would also suggest you read Mike Blumenthal's article in which he ties this tweak to the Hummingbird Update. Very smart: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2013/09/28/hummingbird-local-knowledge-graph-shitty-search-results/ And, if you'd care to read more on this topic, you might want to take a glance at: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/NMh_bk5MXX0 The problem is very widespread. Google is aware of it and I expect they will turn the dial again at some point to improve what is currently a very poor search experience. There may be some hope in reporting a specific instance, as you will read about in Linda Buquet's forum thread, but for the most part, this may just be one of those sit-tight situations that we have to endure until Google takes action. Hang in there.

I agree with what Peter said aboe, but I also want to add remember when creating content always think about answering the questions your customers might have about your product(s) or services. This will not only answer content question that many customers are always asking about, but it will also help you get the long tail keyword info that your company might need to battle hummingword.

With the help of a designer. The slides in the example you pointed are images. You need someone creative with decedent skills in a graphics editing program like Photoshop and after the images are made you use any slideshow creation software to transform them into a presentation.

Amazing, thank you

I know this link.Thanks for sharing Sorina Dascalu but this is not the answer I have been looking for.Can you help me tweak it based on our site. What files needs changes?

Few things. Reason why your title is below meta description? Seems awkward. Put keyword into H1 preferably. Put more content onto homepage if that is the page you are trying to rank. I aim for 800+ words. Your link profile foundation is really good. You have a very easy site to work with and can see some pretty good rankings. Main issue is you lack links with the anchor text you are trying to rank. Thats an easy fix for the most part. 51 DA? Wish my clients would have similar clean sites to work with. Would make my life sooooo much easier. Your content looks like its farmed. Grabbing it from a content farm? Try to create higher quality content and send social signals to it. Also, its best to put blogs + excerpt + date stamp on homepage. Lastly, you are getting 70/100 in terms of desktop page speed. Have to optimize images, minify JS/css/html. and move JS to footer. I assume your site is hosted in the US? Response time is a little slow so you might consider using a CDN. I see that you are located in SD, I am in LA. If you want to chat, PM me.

Mike's response pretty much covers it, I would just add that there shouldn't be any negative effects with having 1099pro.com canon to itself, so don't worry about that.

I use wheregoes.com to see where a shortened link goes without clicking it.

The prices on the website must be a joke.

I have made the same experiences... Ashley is right: that`s the standard

I think the way you have your tags set is perfect. While having a robots=noindex tag allows google to read the page and pass pagerank, there's no point listing them in search results as they actually don't offer any valuable content; they link to, but they don't have it. That said, google goes over your tag pages passing pagerank, which ultimately get more juice to your articles. Sometimes, within a post, you can link to a tag page within the content, so users can read more about certain topics and you are passing more juice to that tag page, although not being indexed, that tag page passes pagerank back to the articles. The noindex has nothing (almost) to do with pagerank, it could be a tremendously useful page (you can even earn links to it from external sources), but they are only valuable to users reading your content and interested in a particular "subject" you mention within the post/context.

1 Yes, Bing have stated that they will ignore the sitemap if it is not accurate 2. no 3, no 4 yes 5 no, use priorities for that 6  looks ok I would look into using the Google and Bing sitemap generators, problem solved (if you have access to the server) http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2013/05/23/bing-sitemap-plugin-1-0-launch.aspx http://googlesitemapgenerator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/gsg-installation.html