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We would have the job description on each page mentioning the locations, then we would also have the job capture form. You are right in that these descriptions do have unique data on them. I am thinking we are just going to have to take the time to write as much unique content as possible. Thanks for the feedback.

Hi Frédéric, You might find the below resources useful: Article by Bruce Clay French Link Building Tool French Google SEO Guide You can also analyze your competitor link profile using OSE and identify link building opportunities using this tool.

Arh - offcourse. I was looking at our default domains robots.txt. Thank you

Hey Itamar, I believe the automated tool runs against any page that ranks in the top 50 for that keyword. So, where you have keywords in your navigation, your main page may be an A and rank in the top 10 but other related pages may sit down in the late 40s and subsequently pick up an automated review. This is easily resolved though: 1. Log into your campaign 2. Click on the 'on page' link to view your report cards 3. Click on the F report cards and review the list 4. for any terms that are being graded against pages that are not relevant then click on the keyword to see the report card 5. Click the 'stop running weekly' button on the right hand side This will remove any that you do not want to see. Additionally, if you want to track other keywords against specific pages you can click the 'report card' link at the top of the report card to set up tracking against a specific URL for any of your keywords so you can specify the page you want to track against a given keyword. Ultimately, the crawler does an okay job of setting this up but with just a small bit of tweaking you can really make the reports more valuable. Hope that helps! Marcus

Hi Everett, Many thanks for getting in contact.  I did actually ask this as a private question and got quite a good response and thought it might be a good idea to share it in case anybody else has this issue.  A screenshot is included as a link. | [image: 406561.jpg][image: associate.png?1356029607] | Nov 30, 2012Jasmine AyePaid Search Marketer at Distilled Hey Chris, In this instance it appears that Google is grouping all vendors by ink-type. Specifically here: http://www.google.co.uk/products/... There are several vendors listed. ColcUSA seems to have the price advertised at £5. I don't know how your name came up that way, and I'm not able to replicate the issue. When I even searched "Refresh Cartridges Ink" I couldn't get that to reappear.  When I did, ColcUSA did appear as the vendor on the right side. But the prices being advertised are not yours and Google is just suggesting the cheapest price that the ink retails for. Does this happen every time you search? <a class="image-button add-response-button"> </a> | <a name="post-134030"></a> | [image: 396163.jpg] | Dec 2, 2012 | [image: pencil.png?1356029607] EditChris HolgateDirector at Refresh eCommerce Ltd Hi Jasmine, Hmmmmm.... perhaps this search is regionalised somewhat; the issue doesn't affect our main site but we have three stores and the incorrect product data appears for the Google Local searches.  I should have posted a screenshot really in the first instance I suppose so here's one now   http://imgur.com/1FFkx It's definitely stating the products are from us and if you click through it does indeed link to the correct page on our website but the prices are completely different. We do have a Google Product feed but this does convey the correct pricing which then does appear when going a Google Product Search rather than a Google Local Search. I hope I'm making sense but in all honesty, I've confused myself somewhat! Many thanks | <a name="post-134322"></a> | [image: 406561.jpg] | Dec 3, 2012Jasmine AyePaid Search Marketer at Distilled UGH!!! i just typed this answer and the internet ate it! grrr.... http://imgur.com/dTDzz This is an alternate way to view the information. The list view that you're showing me has cut this information down incorrectly and inserted avg star reviews per product, most local store, and cheapest price. I'm afraid the only way to get this changed is to call AdWords and complain. Now that Google Shopping & AdWords have been blurred together they might be able to help, or register your complaint differently. There's not really a way to change it because the information you put together is correct, but Google's formula for presenting this information is a mashup of all the data they have available to them. I'm not even capable of clicking on any of these listings (in list or tile format) that will allow me to click through directly to your site. I get a list of retailers with correct prices. Does this make any sense? I know it doesn't help the fact that your store is being shown with an incorrect price, but it's definitely not your fault. <a class="image-button add-response-button"> </a> | <a name="post-134850"></a> | [image: 396163.jpg] | Dec 5, 2012 | [image: pencil.png?1356029607] EditChris HolgateDirector at Refresh eCommerce Ltd Ahhhhhhhhhh.... I see, so the price given is the lowest price available on the Internet, not the actual price that we're selling the items at.  This is really, REALLY unclear in list view mode. I guess that's good news however; I was worried that we'd set something up incorrectly and that Google would come down on us like a ton of bricks in a couple of weeks time. Thanks for your help, it's very much appreciated. | <a name="post-134867"></a> | [image: 406561.jpg] | Dec 5, 2012Jasmine AyePaid Search Marketer at Distilled Yay! Glad I could help! I'll mark this as resolved, but this question should still be open to discussion. If you have any problems in the future please feel free to pick it back up! <a class="image-button add-response-button"> </a> | <a name="post-134888"></a> | [image: 396163.jpg] | Dec 5, 2012 | [image: pencil.png?1356029607] EditChris HolgateDirector at Refresh eCommerce Ltd Many thanks Jasmine! |

Thanks. Question though, I'm not using canonical, only next and prev. I don't think canonical should be placed since it is not the same content (different products). Any thoughts?

Hi Evgeny, Good question. For starters, one thing to keep in mind from the beginning is that link juice flowed to subdomians don't pass the same link juice as would links to the same domain. So while these links and/or redirects may help the individual storefronts to rank - assuming there is sufficient link juice behind them - it doesn't necessarily help your root domain. Of course, the way around this is to link these individual storefront subdomains to your main domain, making sure to vary the anchor text and do it in a non-spammy, Penguin friendly way. Okay, onto the main question. In my experience working with 100's of clients, the best way to get them to redirect to your site is anyway they can. Seriously, it's almost impossible to choose a single method that works for all vendors, so I think it's probably best to offer a variety of solutions, such as changes in DNS, server-side redirects, .htaccess , etc. You may even need to offer tech support to manually make these changes for your client. Although this is a sticky area fraught with headaches. (I know from experience) In some cases, it may pass better link juice if you merely have the vendors link to you, instead of going through the trouble of a redirect. Links can carry relevancy signals that 301's can't, and redirects can often loose much of their relevancy if the target page(s) differ too much from the original. Regardless, if you choose to go the redirection route, you'll want all of your redirects to be 301's, no matter what method you choose. The URL in the browser will be your subdomain. (There are ways to do URL masking, but you don't want to go there)  A common practice is to have the name of the vendor in the subdomain, such as vendor.yoursite.com. Hope this helps!  Best of luck with your SEO!

My robots, tags and redirects are all good now. Any other things to look at?

Hi Joel, According to Matt Cutts, Google doesn't penalize sites just for having multiple H1 tags, see: link In my opinion they crawlers/indexers can be set to detect overuse of H2 tags and it is possible that Google can penalize for that. From usability point of view and good structured content I fully agree with Matthew. And from SEO perspective ... how can you tell crawler bots what is most important on your page? Consistency of main factors: meta title - meta description - keyword - title (H1) - content structure an so on is crucial for your page. Marek

Ok, I rewrote the content completely on the www.simplifiedbuilding.com site, so I guess we'll see where this goes. Thanks for the input.

The site has been around for over 10 years, and we do not have any noindex. I am starting to see it drop but two months seems like a long time to start seeing changes.

Thanks Mark, That was really useful .. i also discovered this issue right after i posted my Question, hehe, i knew its a kind of rich snippets coming from the breadcrumbs i used to display on my website. Many Thanks

Thanks Kade, that made sense.

Hi Edward, Can you also check for targeted country setup in Google webmaster Tool ?

Thanks Miriam. Good to know it's common in the local field. Thought this might have caused problems , maybe my listing dropping in position but it hasn't. I'll keep my eye out for  any further developments

Hi Santiago, I would echo Dana on this with a rel="canonical".  Like yourself, we also have a site which has a non root home page which has caused similar problems.  I'm always a little fearful of asking Google to remove a URL from the index, hence it's important that you do something like a rel="canonical".  If you're anything like you 301'ing a page such as this could cause some tech issues on a wider scale.  If you're link building you need to ensure you sort it a.s.a.p., not just for your own link building efforts but to avoid natural link building from others wanting to link to your site and choosing the wrong duplicate URL.  Diluted link juice is so frustrating. Hope this helps. Dawn

Very important.  Particularly if you have a large site.  We operate a large site with 100,000's of pages and as Dan said it can be difficult to maintain.  We use something called Unlimited XML Sitemap Generator which builds XML sitemaps for us automatically.  I'd highly recommend it although it takes a bit of fiddling with to get it up and running as it's software which sits on site.  We couldn't manage without it as we'd be forever on sitemaps. We found that getting sitemaps right on a large site made a huge difference to the crawl rate that we encountered in GWT and a huge indexation to follow. In particular check for 302's.  I made the mistake of leaving those for a while and am sure that we suffered from some loss of link equity along the way. Hope it helps Dawn