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Hi Erin ok ill email my account, the 2x projects it applies too but cant send any other info because not relevant, all it is is the button is not highlighting so i cant press it! Thanks Dan

Hey Matt, The best way to tell what the news organization or site is using is to turn off javascript or view the google cache to determine how Google "sees" the page. This article is using the second option in the article I mentioned - snippets. Here is what the article has to say about that: "If you prefer this option, please display a snippet of your article that is at least 80 words long and includes either an excerpt or a summary of the specific article."

Hi Matt It was the only change we made , I have since optimised more meta descriptions across main landing pages so I will let you know what happens.

It was an error in the product URL field in the global settings. I believe they are in maintenance. We moved to big commerce a little while ago so I can't go back to the Volusion store. I know it was in the global settings field, I just don't remember how to get there.

Many thanks Both That's what I was thinking. Will do. thanks again, Pete

Super Jeff You saved my day

No it isn't.  As I said - RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] This is saying that the condition is off - so non HTTPS URL calls then have the rewrite rule to switch to HTTPS.

A bit late but just for the record. You have a rewrite rule in place not a redirect.  You need something like: RewriteRule ^(.*)$  http://www.yoursite.com/$1  [L,R=301]

Hi Marcus Thanks for the reply. Yeh I think you're right in that it needs to be reviewed on a case by case basis taking into account the goal of the page. Off topic: Just checked out your latest blog post (cracking post btw!),clicked through to the kwfinder tool out of interest and the keyword data it returns for UK searches appear to be American? Have you tested the tool yourself? Do you find the same problem as me? Feel free to reply to me on Twitter given it's noting to do with this Q & A thread Cheers! Anthony

These days, content is king. It looks like there are a lot of similar internal links in the source code of these pages. When you have thin/or no content, your internal link profile stands out a lot more. What helped me overcome this for my company is focusing on aggregating customer reviews and having my customer service team generate unique product descriptions. Social media was great for reviews. We offered small coupons at first, and now our customers want to send reviews. Unique product descriptions might be tough for clothes, but, it isn't impossible. Having a ridiculously duplicated internal link profile and no content is almost as detrimental to your organic rankings as a spammy external linking profile. You want to look like an eCommerce site and not an online catalog.

"You are better off putting up a separate review page for every review that page gets but still, I would choose putting it on the same page to take full advantage of it." Yep this is exactly what I want to do. Sounds like Laura's idea is amazing and I need to do some more research on how to design a page to act in this way. Thanks heaps guys!

Hi everyone! I wanted to follow up with everyone who experienced the same issue. Unfortunately the moz crawler doesn't crawl any noindex,nofollow which proves its limits. There is another tool called screamingfrog that will allow you to crawl all the noindex, nofollow pages. This tool is literally saving me as I was able to detect many errors on the Beta Site. Without it we would have launched the new site and our SEO would have taken a major hit. Thanks!

Also, I'm realizing that the 5% number is rather vague. To put it into perspective, it's just under our average conversion rate for that timeframe.

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If you want to keep any SEO value from inbound links that go to any of those older pages, you'll want to 301 redirect them to a similar page (i.e. a top category page). According to Rand Fishkin's Moz blog writeup, Are 404 Pages Always Bad for SEO? http://moz.com/blog/are-404-pages-always-bad-for-seo "When faced with 404s, my thinking is that unless the page: A) Receives important links to it from external sources (Google Webmaster Tools is great for this) B) Is receiving a substantive quantity of visitor traffic and/or C) Has an obvious URL that visitors/links intended to reach It's OK to let it 404." According to Moz's Redirection SEO Best Practice: http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection ... you want to use a 301 redirect to indicate that the content has moved permanently. Here's a post that describes how to create a more SEO friendly migration, here's a great info graphic: http://moz.com/blog/achieving-an-seo-friendly-domain-migration-the-infographic Hope this helps! Thanks, -- Jeff

In this situation it shouldn't be an issue as it isn't a purchased link.  However to be on the safe side you may be best to make the site wide link a no follow. You could place a non site wide link somewhere else on the blog that points back to the main site if you would like to pass some link juice. You can find a discussion on site wide links here: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2340986/Are-All-Sitewide-Links-Unnatural

I believe that in the future you will be able to, but for now and I don't know if this is technically permitted in there T&Cs you have to share your login details.

Moz will crawl the site every week so you'll need to wait a few days for that to happen. In the meantime you could try using the Moz Crawl tool to do a manual crawl. Depending on the size of your site this can take a few days so you might find it's just worth waiting for the weekly crawl. You can find the crawl tool here: https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test If you site isn't included in Google's index because it was inaccessible due to the robots,txt, then you'll want to go into Google Webmaster Tools and use the Crawl -> Fetch as Googlebot to kickstart Google crawling/indexing your site.

Thomas, Access the G+ profile under which the existing business page is set up and set up additional business page(s) from there.  The Google maps listing is tied to the business page so once you have the business page set up and verified the google maps listing will ride on its coat tails .  If you have more than ten locations however, log into you primary G+ profile and start here.