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Thank you Stephanie

Hi Wesley & D., I really appreciate the what you said & did however I did not administer the experiment or create content. Thank you for the kind words however I did not do the work for this I only for the used it as a reference to describe the situation. I am glad it helped, All the best, Thomas

I think Tom gave you excellent advice. I generally do not think about spam links if there part of my website and a legitimate part in the footer. For instance I link my terms of service and by privacy policy there however I would not walk them because Google and moreover some states particularly California have extremely strong policies on advertising and tracking people that go to your website and what you have to disclose. I would not use the footer for more than 2 to 3 links but that's just me. As Tom said if you think it is possibly something Google might not want no follow the link. this will at least confirm Tom Roberts answer is correct, Thomas

I don't think so, it's useless. If it is Useless , so you can't touch this topic. I don't think so even everybody know this whole factors at once, this is the one awesome creation can give you an opportunity to see all these factors at once in this infographic image.

Yes that will help for sure. The best way to do it is make a separate contact us page that when you make the new Google+ for business listing that you add that instead of the main root domain. For example yourcompanyname.com/denver-creative-services and that will rank quicker. I personally have done that myself a few times.

Hoping for the extra points here, so here goes how we handled the problem. The solution is a lot simpler than all the thought needed, or used by us to rationalize the answer, and it has been working beautifully. Our Google webmaster tools show constant improvement weekly without us doing any additional work. We Canonicalized the first paginated results. ".com/productcategory.aspx" not ".com/productcategory.aspx?page=1" so now all pages link their juice back to the main page ".com/productcategory.aspx". GWT doesn't even care about setting the parameter "Page=" And we didn't include the Canonical tag for the product pages, because each product has its own link juice that we want to preserve, so that each product may "Star" as its own as a google result. So all we did was to include a single canonical tag for the paginated category page and wala the hole solution works in GWT.

thanks. On first sight could not find any other reason for disappearance in rankings, but will have a second look. Relevance of aggregate review on category is not so black or white. I believe that it adds some value to know aggregated reviews by brands for example, but other people may question this value.

Julian, we sell digital sheet music and the additional 100,000 are products from Alfred music publishing company. Of course they will not be "high quality pages", but they are product pages, each one offering a piece of music. We are an e-commerce website, how can we avoid having product pages?! But of course, as Wesley said above, we can improve each product page quality content by giving more/custom information for each product, increasing user reviews, etc. Other suggestions?

Thank you Tom

Hi Anthony This isn't perhaps the practice I would recommend. Content using rel author should be to put it simply..... authored. The correct places for this to be used would be for example; blogs, guides, instructional content you have written. Other content such as videos etc could use rich snippets which can help boost click through. I hope this helps. If you have any further questions feel free to ask. Kind Regards Tim

Hi David, I hope in the little time I have I can acquire enough high-quality information that this will be of use to you. http://moz.com/blog/postpenguin-anchor-text-case-study http://www.searchenginejournal.com/25-ways-to-get-penalized-in-2012/47245/ https://ahrefs.com/digest/ ( Take with more than a grain of salt but hopeful and possible http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4461573.htm ) http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-definitive-guide-to-penguin-friendly-seo/57196/ I have some bits of news for you I've collected from trusted sources regarding what is new in what we should be expecting regarding panda 2.0 I will start off with one this is Matt Cutts speaking to gentleman I will link to below "Links Must Be Citations" http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2259674/Penguin-2.0-Forewarning-The-Google-Perspective-on-Links First and foremost, I don't work for Google. This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on helping large numbers of sites get Google penalties removed. The hardest part of these projects is always to get the client to understand what constitutes a bad link. This starts at the very core of how they think about online marketing and search engine optimization (SEO). There are many who argue that this problem is of Google's own making. They created a world in which abuse wasn't only possible, but that was even very easy to abuse in the beginning. As some would say, they were talking the talk, but not walking the walk. Some people even got mad. They would yell at Google that they couldn't follow their guidelines because it put them in a situation that was like bringing a knife to a gunfight. But, as Greg Boser said on stage at SMX Advanced in 2012, Google is now not just talking the talk, but they are walking the walk as well. Penguin and their various attacks on unnatural links have dramatically reshaped their ability to detect and act on link building practices they consider detrimental to their algorithms. note how they arty link themselves at the bottom _http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/penguin-2-0-penalty-home24-de/_ Here’s what we will learn Penguin 2.0 hit not such a surprise? Unnatural Link Warning and drop since February Quick Domain Compare for a first impression Too much Power? Too many Site Wides?? Quick Diving deeper in the their links Hard Money Anchor Texts? Some paid blog posts A Quick Competitive Landscape Analysis with CLA Lots of redirects Link Detox to audit the risk of your links, for your own and redirecting domains Conclusion of this deep dive What’s next? <a name="surprise"></a> Not such a surprise? It’s not a surprise actually; something has been cooking for months. Here is a screenshot from Sistrix’ (not yet updated) chart, showing a decline since February. Read more: http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/penguin-2-0-penalty-home24-de/#ixzz2V7WKofjk Google Pushed Out The Major Penguin Update (v2.0 #4) Matt Cutts saying it will be big http://www.seroundtable.com/google-penguin-four-16775.html _http://www.seroundtable.com/google-penguin-four-live-16830.html_ _ I hope this helps,_ Thomas

thanks Dan, really helpful !-)

Yes, that makes sense... I will do that. Thanks!

Which schema tags are you trying to implement? I don't see why they would cause a conflict with your existing titles & descriptions. Generally, you can add the semantic markup by just adding tags to your existing content.

thank you Moosa

I advise you to make them look natural.  If you ever went through a manual review they would obviously flag you for spam. I suggest you create your pages with broad keywords.  If you make sure your keyword diversity is 1 - 1.5% for onpage SEO your fine.  Backlinks are what will rank your site anyways right now, onpage SEO isn't doing a very good job of ranking on it's own for any type of keywords that will send you quality hits.  There are a few exceptions out there, but the average site will need backlinks created to a site. Take a look at this page for some SEO hints I just wrote  http://moz.com/community/q/does-anyone-have-an-seo-strategic-plan-template-for-a-beginning-seomoz-r Have a great day.

I think that it is tough to answer the question posed in title of your post other than to say "a lot".  But I don't think that having a tight "overall site semantic theme" and selling a lot of products are mutually exclusive. For instance, Home Depot's Title Tag is "Home Improvement Made Easy with New Lower Prices", so that is a massive site where essentially everything is tailored towards fulfilling that one idea, which is extremely broad. Drill down to product descriptions and they describe individual products and their usefulness in the context of the rest of the home/ other products that they sell.

I understand from where you are coming from, did you try to run the website on screaming frog or Moz Crawler? did u see certain anomalies ?

Yes, I've already done that.

Awesome. Thank you very much Chris.