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It looks like it was a typo on my end.    Thanks ...  great catch.

Hi As Dennis confirmed, the 2nd link is showing the rich snippets. Try not to rely on the site: operator, and instead (first choice), query Google specifically where your result should appear first naturally, in your target country. For example, https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=IT+and+Management+Training+Alpharetta%2C+GA+&gl=us yields the desired result:http://screencast.com/t/szChNsHMjS42 Alternatively, you can always try the info: operator which is usually more reliable. Your first result is a bit more confusing to explain, http://screencast.com/t/nY3u6eCdeIfV. You have 2 results appearing for the exact page title query, and that might be the reason why you aren't seeing it (at least in this example): https://www.google.com/search?gl=us&q=Java%2C+Perl+and+Python+Programming+Training+&gl=us Just as David-Kley said above, you've implemented the microdata correctly and it's really up to Google as to whether the query deserves rich snippets or not. On the up side, you are getting quite a few rich snippets, so just look around  https://www.google.com/search?gl=us&q=Perl++Programming+Training&gl=us Thanks, Dave

If you don't mind me asking what was the nature of the press release and who did you release it through?

Excellent answer. Thanks so much Doug. I really appreciate it! Adding a "nofollow" attribute to the Checkout button is a good suggestion and should be fairly easy to implement. I realize that internal nofollows are not normally recommended, but in this instance, may not be a bad idea.

THanks for all of the answers, does anyone have recommendations for good companies that do consulting for Panda related issues?

Thanks! I had a RU content person on my team ask on a Yandex specific forum and that is the answer she got.

I believe Google webmaster and GA are both trusted tools but if I have to choose one of them I will go with analytics tool as its real time where as webmaster tools take time to get updated. If you lost impression as well as traffic from search in a day you probably have to check your rankings and see if you lost rankings as well in-case of you probably knows the action plan. Also check the drop date and compare it with the Google penalty calendar to see if you are a suspect of Panda or Penguin. Hope this helps!

If you have users register for anything (like comments for example) then I would use https, or any kind of ecommerce. Other than that, I don't think you pick up an advantage.

Great, thanks everybody.

The lastest #mozcast update results were interesting.  Dr. Pete did some analysis on tlds and non of them were really showing up.  https://plus.google.com/+SEOmoz/posts/WxMyUQxp5pt Technically the new tlds you mentioned aren't on here but I'm doubting that including them would make any difference. Sounds like a case study coming up...

Google employee John Mueller was asked this recently in a hangout and he said that it had been a while since the last one so hopefully we get one soon.  But, no one outside of a select few at Google knows when it will happen.  It's been almost 8 months now. Matt Cutts said at a conference that 6 months was a reasonable time to wait between Penguin refreshes but that it could be significantly more.

Fetching as Googlebot and ensuring the page is visible elsewhere on the web (marketing!) are the best ways to spur quicker crawling and indexing, as others have said. If you notice the cache date of the pages not updating and changes not making it into Google's index, it would be time to check for larger issues that might be preventing or dissuading Google from reaching the site more regularly.

I don't believe the two events are related. It's more related to Panda 4.0 and their use of thin content and doorway pages. According to an excellent article on wordstream by Larry Kim: "When you search for specific products and see an organic search result, chances are, it's leading you to a doorway page – an internal search results page on eBay with very little content..."

Thanks Marie, You can also read more about it on Dr.Pete's Moz post here- http://moz.com/blog/panda-4-payday-loan-2-and-ebays-very-bad-day

There's also an article about it right here on the Moz blog, which includes a title tag preview tool: New Title Tag Guidelines & Preview Tool http://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool

Hi Sara, Following up on this one - has there been a real drop in rankings that you have verified?

Glad to help Ryan. It sounds like you have a good plan going forward. As long as the site has good content and seo, I'm sure you will be fine. Best of luck with the new site!

I don't think it's a big deal not to have it, but for something that can be done in literally 10 seconds I'd play safe than sorry. To explain what I meant about the duplicate home pages, you can often have multiple versions accessible to the public. For example: Yourself.com www.yourself.com www.yourself.com/index.php I haven't looked at how you have it set up, but all should go only to one version to prevent home page duplication, and the final version you decide on would be the one you include in the sitemap. Hope that helps!

Sorry I didn't respond sooner Gary. I really appreciate getting a recommendation from you.  I guess what I was disagreeing with was the idea that starting over was what John always recommends.  I possibly misinterpreted your response though. I have seen a couple of sites make fantastic recoveries from Penguin, but it's definitely not common.  The majority of Penguin hit sites that I have seen are in the same boat as you where they appear to have done all of the right things but are still waiting for improvement.  Very frustrating indeed.

After some testing, we found WPEngine to be the best solution for Wordpress site speed. They are a hosting company that specializes in Wordpress and they use a lot of caching and CDNs without you needing to set anything up or worry if things are working properly. I'm sure similar results can be duplicated by  building out your own caching and CDN, this is just another option for you.