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Hey there, Not sure I'm seeing the same SERPs as you... Okay, for "terminology management" you rank 1st in the Uk https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw=1366&bih=683&q=terminology+management&gl=uk&pws=0 and #3 for "translation memory" https://www.google.co.uk/search?gl=uk&pws=0&q=translation+memory Notice that I use 2 additional parameters in the search URL, pws=0 removes personalization and gl=uk tells Google I'm searching from the UK. No offence to Maximillion here, but hreflang is not the right choice for you at the minute. If you start losing ground to UK based websites for these generic English terms, you can follow the previous advice but you'd have to make some really clever/complicated adjustments. From the current situation, you're in very good shape and you shouldn't need to do anything else.

I have the same issue - but I've stopped getting stressed about it. I've noticed that when my site disappears it comes back stronger a couple of days later. I can't say that I'm substaintially changing the site but as a Moz user it's slightly improving all the time and I've been removing spammy back links. It feels like Google spiders the site and is shocked at the improvements and kills it for a couple of days.

Google may decide what kind of KGraph box showing depending on many factors: search histories, knowledge base (i.e.: are people mostly searching for pure information about the brand, or local?) and many other things. When I tried to replicate your results, I always saw the local box.

Hmmm, for this question: I am wondering how I can go ahead and use sub folders and have a seperate site, for example using Wordpress Multisite, at domain.com/technology, and it not cause any issues should there be a news piece on the main site that has technology in the title, which could happen. What are your recommendations for overcoming that? Let us take an example: domain.com/technology.html and domain.com/technology. In a scenario like this, the target term is, 'technology' that would be in the titles on both the pages (on the technology.html page and on the homepage of domain.com/technology/ ). So we have a keyword cannibalism here, two pages competing for the same keyword. In cases like this, we should decide which page from our website should rank for the term and put rel=canonical on the other page pointing to the preferred one. And yes, you can definitely port all the mini sites to their respective folders on the main domain without a second thought. Once you move them, just make sure to go for page-to-page 301 and you should be good. Would like to share a personal experience here. I had a client few years back that wanted to with a mushroom websites approach and many of them targeting the same set of keywords/phrases and with an intention to occupy multiple positions in search results. Despite me making them aware of the possible consequences, they insisted to go with the strategy. First few months were very fruitful but after that disaster struck. Many of those websites were thrown out of index overnight. We took down all of those websites and moved the content from them to the sub-folders of the flagship website. It took 6 weeks for us to see anything good happening and after that, there was no turning back. The flagship website literally ruled the niche and became an authority in the niche. Here is thread here on Moz regarding the sub-domain strategy. Please go through it and it would be of some help to you. It talks about sub-domains vs sub-folders. http://moz.com/community/q/multiple-subdomains-my-worst-seo-mistake-now-what-should-i-do And here: http://www.seomoz.org/q/subdomains-vs-subfolders Best regards, Devanur Rafi

Penguin 2.1 was released at the start of the month. And your clients were probably penalized a little bit. Remove the bad links using a tool like LinkDetox and hopefully you will be able to recover some positions

I agree with Miriam. There is a company in Phoenix that calls themselves "Phoenix SEO" in the maps- even though that's not the name of the company. When you search for Phoenix SEO, one company dominates the search. Very odd. But it will surely be worked out.

I sometimes put noindex on category pages too, because I have the manual excerpts also present on the blog index pages (the pages that list all blog posts in chronological order). But is really a decision I make based on the type of website. There are websites where category pages present much interest then the chronological post listing. On these I don't use noindex, but I also do something to prevent duplicate content - I add some static text to the category pages so that they don't contain only the post excerpts.

Yeah, given that your brand looks pretty strong and you even have a Knowledge Graph entry, not ranking for exact-match brand terms (even in quotes, at least for me) is a very bad sign. When you asked about Panda, did you mean Penguin 2.1? It's definitely possible for a site as large as yours to be hit by Panda (because of duplicate content, thin content, etc.), but that would typically manifest in a loss of long-tail traffic, ranking dilution, and other more subtle or isolated signs. When you can't get your home-page to rank for brand terms, that's almost always penalty-scale and often link-based. Penguin is entirely possible, but Panda is very unlikely to cause this. However, since you've got a second penalty notice in play, speculating about Penguin isn't really worthwhile. You know Google has a problem with your link profile, and they're telling you flat out that you didn't clean it up enough. Honestly, you're going to have to be aggressive - being re-penalized could be worse, and if Google thinks you're playing games, or you just ask for reconsideration without showing a serious effort to cull bad links, they're going to only get more and more suspicious. Are you ranking for much of anything? I'm not able to find you for "cell phone accessories" and similar terms, either.

I still find the new version extremely difficult to read. Size matters. The font is still much too small. And there is too much wasted space in the design. The whole trend in design seems to be to super big fonts. See these examples from Precision Nutrition and Distlilled.

At first: both variations of your URL are not Google friendly. The length of an URL (although the whole structure) is a ranking factor (issues according to the structure of an URL are also several ranking factors). Just take a look at this list I know that it is very complicated to create lightweight URLs but you should at least consider to use a specified keyword within your URL (best: in front of all the other information). Using a subdomain that is a keyword for your content can help...

I've responded to specific comments below, but here's the information you need to redirect: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details The gist is, you need: 301 or 302 redirects from the desktop site to the mobile site, based on user agent detection Rel="canonical" tag on each mobile page pointing to to each desktop page Rel="alternate" tag on each desktop page pointing to each mobile page A Vary HTTP header A mobile sitemap As I mentioned below, I also recommend that you have a link at the bottom of the mobile and desktop sites pointing to the other version. That way, if you get the redirects wrong, people can self correct.

Also, the anchor text of those links will determine the effects. For example, if you eliminate many URL-only links and you had too high a percentage of those (>40%) in your anchor text portfolio, it could benefit your overall ranking. However, if you eliminate keyworded anchor text, you might lose ranking. This is another dimension of the possible outcomes to analyze in addition to link juice. In general, if a link is from a non-relevant or low authority domain and does not have useful anchor text, it is easy to remove with confidence. But if it the linking domain has relevance, authority, or links with anchor text, it is worth holding off while you clean up others.

Thank you for the responses, I think we've made our decision based on all of your suggestions.

I think Mark has the right idea, I would build out a landing page on your main site for the keyword, then 301 the emd back to it. Bottom line, emd results are short lived.

One that no one has mentioned is Olark. It is a website chat program. You can use pigeon to communicate with people, but it ups up an an alert every time someone lands on the site. It tells the user agent and a bit of information about them. Plus you can initiate a chat with them if you want to.

Thanks Josheph, I'm glad you liked it. Have you looked into Google Site Search? http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/products/gss.html You can test out the search on your site from that URL. If your blog is on a subdomain you have to test http://yourdomain.com instead of http://www.yourdomain.com. I think Endeca allows you to do this, but you should make sure they show you some live examples first. I looked for one but didn't find it. Whatever Crutchfield is doing seems to work, though it's not exactly what you're asking for. If you use the search field from the Research tab you get content. If you use the search field from the Shop tab you get products: http://www.crutchfield.com/learnsearch/installing_car_speakers.html Good luck!

Hi Dan, I am just trying to use MOZ system. What is the best link management add-on or system works well with Moz?  Thanks Lewis

I think it's OK either way. If you take a look, on Google News even the big players have their own rules about titling. As you can see, ABC News uses "The World Is Getting More Corrupt, and These Are the 5 Worst Offenders" while USA Today or La Times prefer: "DUI case collapses in Nevada crash that killed 5".

I agree. Giving money to blackmailers is never a good idea. It only encourages more blackmail. I would explore every other option.