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Yes, it helped a lot. Thank you very much!

Oops, I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up. Ruben

Larry - In Pinterest, the little heart button is just like the Facebook "Like" icon.  (But they had to be different, so it's a heart, meaning you love it.  But not in the till-death-do-us-part way.) Here's a link on how you can like other people's pins: https://en.help.pinterest.com/entries/22980372-Pins-and-likes#like From Pinterest: What's a like?  (The Heart Shaped Thing) Liking a pin adds the pin to your profile’s likes section rather than a specific board. To like a pin, hover over the pin and click on the heart icon in the top right corner. What's a pin? A pin is an image or video you add to Pinterest that leads back to the site where it was found. You can pin anything you find on Pinterest or around the web. Having lots and lots of people pin a product on your website, or an image or video on your page adds to it's social media profile, and should help with both consumer engagement and possibly rankings. Hope this helps! -- Jeff

UPDATE I've discovered you can put schema.org meta data into meta tags, just like open graph using the content variable, for example:

You don't see traffic from bit.ly as they actually redirect the user without serving any content, therefore is just a redirection, instead, you should see the actual referrer, facebook, or whatever. However, if you are getting the hit from a facebook page, it is probably an HTTPS page, and therefore, if redirected to a non-SSL page referrer information isn't passed along. However, you could see something like facebook.com/u.php?.... You should use Analytics tracking variables to better understand from which posts are those visitors coming: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en As for your second question, just like you can interpret the redirection, so can Google or whatever search engine scrapes the page looking for signals. It won't matter if you pass them through bit.ly or services alike, the link ends up in your site (as long as there's a 300 redirection in place, which it is in bit.ly). Hope that helps!

many thanks Erica

Do you have any other suggestions for a business that does its own blog posts but does not want our individual names or contact available to the GP?

Best thing you can do to get P-interst over there is to join in. Too often we share our stuff, pin our stuff, and run away. Try this and try it honestly: Go to Pinterest and search for interesting things. Instead of pinning, leave comments on everything you think is unique, cool, fun, interesting, or beautiful. Leave genuine, 10 word+ comments and do this for about an 30-60 mins a day for two weeks straight.  Follow more users and repin some of your favorite stuff onto a board called Inspiration from Others At the end of two weeks, if your own repins aren't up, try something else. lol  But they will be - in which case: lather, rinse & repeat.

I change it but its still not working. https://www.facebook.com/garmentprintingUK You can see that there is not reviews yet.

Hi there! Were you able to sort this out? Please let us know how things turned out, thanks! Christy

Currently Google Authorship only supports one author per post as far as SERPs go (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/08/relauthor-frequently-asked-advanced.html) but I would recommend adding bylines for all authors on a post so if/when Google allows for multiple authors you have everyone show up there. Does this company page get considered as author? Technically no. Authorship is meant for individual people whereas Publisher is meant for Brands. However, Publisher may show up withyour Google+ logo if a person who follows you is signed into their Google Plus Profile.  You should have set up rel=publisher to identify cardekho as the publisher of the site and whomever is the author should have a byline.  If there are multiple authors then each author should have a byline.  Google will only support one image in the SERPs however and it will generally be an author. Would this company profile marked as rel=author help in any ranking benefit as an individual Author profile helps in search results? Again this should be a rel=publisher schema markup issue.  Having authorship show up in search results does tend to lead to higher click through rates but for pure ranking factor as related to Authorship, I think the jury is still out.  I still think domain level metrics are more important then author stats.

Hi Avalanche, If it happened automatically, then it does sound like part of the automatic upgrade. I do, however, recommend that you investigate and resolve the business title inconsistency. Google's guidelines specifically forbid anything but the legal business name or DBA in that field. If an internal edit doesn't work, I'd go through the troubleshooter: https://support.google.com/places/ Hit the red 'contact us' button to begin documenting the problem, which is quite a serious one, both because of Google's guidelines and the fact that citation consistency is considered to be one of the top local ranking factors. Hope this helps!

Hi David Great experiment! lol...Thanks for sharing and yes this is what I was looking for. Have you tried removing the keyword " Gareth Hoyle" from the title to see if it still ranks? Ok I also wonder if this still would have worked if your domain authority was a bit lower.. Thanks for sharing Carla

Hi Brian, Try https://socialcrawlytics.com/ it does exactly what you need.

I never come across a case like this on the internet so the ideal idea will be to contact the developers team but I don’t think there should be a problem and logically it make sense to me!

Hi David, we'd love an update on this. Thanks! Christy

Hi David, please give us an update. Thanks! Christy

I wonder why nobody remembers that Google+ has one great features that makes everything about targeting really simple: Circles. You can have just one business page for your site and that segment your different users in country/language specific circles so to update in different languages notifying the update circle by circle. Doing so, the Circles targeting others languages/countries won't see it. Splitting Google Plus presence is not the best because you are dispersing the power the business page may have. The only exception, IMHO, is when the business as a strong local presence in another market, hence it can be better to give to it a strong Google Plus identity too.