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Hi Oliver, Looks like this issue is now fixed? I searched for "24 hour people Priceminister" and "priceminister google plus" on google.fr and your site is showing up as the first result. Interestingly, we are also seeing the same issue for our brand queries on Google since last few months. For us Google is infact even showing the other brand for autocomplete search suggestions as well! See details here: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!mydiscussions/webmasters/ESDluD9Q0-A Can you please let me know if there was something you did that rectified the issue or did it get fixed automatically? Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks!

If it was just an hour I don't think you have anything to worry about. In the future you may want to look into serving a 500 code instead when the site goes down.

Hi, sorry... I just meant if you did have a few other spammy links from other sites, those could hurt you. I doubt the woorank ones are hurting, but perhaps the other 3 spammy sites you mentioned could have been.

Magento can be a bit of a pain when it comes to duplicate content, but in this case I think you need to clarify where the actual problem exists. For the too many onpage links, this is not an error, simply a suggestion/notice and is something quite a few sites show in moz tools, so skip that for the moment. For the link examples you give like this: bikerleather.com/mens-vest-2032 - this page 302 redirects to the homepage... thats a problem, especially if it is being linked to internally from somewhere. Check out your site with screaming frog or some specific links here: http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/ You have quite a few 302 redirects on the site, so it seems that the moz report is correctly identifying this still. This might well be the root cause of the duplicate content also, since all the 302s go to the homepage... that is technically a duplicate content issue! Personally I would be cautious about disabling the internal magento url rewriting and trying to handle it all with an htaccess file, it is not very future proof and I think you will get into more trouble that it is worth in the medium term. What to do? Download the moz errors report in csv, filter for duplicate content and/or 302 issues and then look in the far right hand column for the url which linked to the page. Chances are you will find a pattern emerging where 302/duplicate content errors are being spawned off by specific components or pages in the system. Those are the easy fixes, once those are done you will be left with the more difficult fixes, but at least there should be a lot less of them! Hope that helps!

Well, having more and more content over time will 100% lead to more traffic since you'l targer a larger and larger audience. I find it easier in terms of getting traffic to create more content than to hyper-optimise/target a few pages. The growing Analytics traffic curve is enough, I think.

i couldnt open your image but I would use A Custom Report not a advanced segment. Just make the dimension mobile device type you want and then select the dimension hour of day Let me know if this helps

I have a retail site in a niche like this.  Nobody has written the articles.  Nobody. I write articles and they rank well for LOTS and LOTS of long tail keywords.  However, there is not a lot of search in this niche.  The typical article pulls in only 5, 10 or 15 visits from search per day.  But, these articles have a good conversion rate. So, I do a "good" job on these articles - but not a great job like I do for a site that competes for much higher traffic in much more difficult SERPs.

Hi Tom, Do you have any mark up data in place on the UK site? It just seems curious that it is pulling the product data for the UK site and not IE. It could be the case the the mark up data is not in place on the IE site or if it is that Google has yet to implement this data in the search results. Rikki

Hi Tom ive since learnt that in this scenario the best thing to do is ad a tracking parameter...

Also, the weekend patterns get further amplified if you turn ppc off for the weekend.

absolutely agree, I dont take Google WMT as the real measure of actual links, but its a pretty accurate barometer of what Google will use to rank your site. Bing webmaster tools show the same figures today as they did yesterday, so they are still there but google WMT has obviously thought again about which it will index/recognise for link juice.

Hi Sarah, In general the site has good design and you're pushing user generated content in the form of the brag board, which I think is a good resource for building your community element. People are hesitant to be the first to review unless they hate something. If you can afford it, I'd start by leaving lengthy reviews on products that have actually been used by your internal team. Use great grammar, shoot for longer form content, etc. Really set the tone that this is an awesome site for lengthy reviews. Contests can be a good way to incentivize reviews, especially if you can partner up with a manufacturer for free or discounted product to give away. Do a recurring contest, and have all reviews count as an entry. For your actual review form, try building out way more specific questions than just giving users a box. A good example of this is the questions that are asked of business owners signing up for Thumbtack.com. Rather than asking for a business description, they specifically as the business owners a number of targeted questions that really separates them from every other site online. You'll need to take the same creative approach to set yourself apart from other review websites. I'm thinking things such as "How did the product fit?" for clothing categories, or "Would you recommend this product to a friend who needed on as well?" Those are the types of questions that should elicit better quality of responses. Hope that's helpful!

Well I wish Google would get on it and hurry up and merge them because the listing is hard to find on Google Maps and never comes up in the front page map.

Hi Irving, the G+ L listing for Eyeglasses does not have a website listed, so that's why the link in G search only goes to G+. Here is the G+ L page search links to: https://plus.google.com/112052218407614442300/about?hl=en However there may be an issue with that listing. If you view their maps page, the link shows but it does not show up on the Google+ Local page. Looks like someone just made an update in Map Maker on May 23rd and added the website there. If you manage the listing I'd be sure the website is also listed in the dashboard and I would not typically recommend editing in MM.

I wish I had..we have been hit pretty hard as well, lost rankings for 70% of all keywords targeting the Homepage, with all types of anchor text. I would say, if you can do something about those bad links, do it; that shouldn't hurt you but,  I would start building a few strong links as soon as possible too. Going forward, it seems very clear to me that paid links and more than 30 to 40% exact anchor text backlinks will not influence rankings anymore. As far as I can see, there is no real recovery story after this update. If the rankings are where they used to be, proceed with caution, keep building valuable links and keep an eye on your Google Analytics. Good luck and keep us posted.

Agree w/ Martin - CrazyEgg would be the best place to start. Especially since you can get a sweet startup deal from Moz as one of your ProPerks  Paul

I'll second what Paul said about Crazy Egg...it's amazing! I still use GA as well but I absolutely LOVE the Heatmap and have made many optimization decisions after doing tests with it running.

Thanks Aleyda. I think your right. Interesting all the same. Perhaps I should insert office desks in to the title and see what happens. Thanks Rob

Thanks! another question, so the crawl stats on Google webmastertools also counts the number of crawled pages per day by adsense bot?

Testing, testing, testing...just keep those SERP pages testing....RAWHIDE Oh, here's the tune that goes with my lyrics: Be patient it's the Blues Brothers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdR6MN2jKYs  Just subsitute the words "rolin' rollin' rollin'" with "testin'' testin' testin' " Seriously, Google's testing all the time. I am sure the same thing is happening with Knowledge Graph and Structured Data as we all eagerly participate as guinea pigs in Google's tests. One  thing's for sure...Google's SERPs are going to change a t light speed over the net 5 years. Dana