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I've never experienced a noticable, direct effect in this regard, and have experience with ranking pages well with crazy parameters. As long as things are canonicalized properly and the system isn't creating a bunch of duplicate pages with different parameters, you should be fine.

Hi Ruben, The Check listing tool updates every few days, so even when the information has been pushed to Foursquare, it can take us a couple days to crawl the appropriate Foursquare page and surface that information to you. Let me know if you have any other questions, happy to help. Cheers, Ryan Watson J.D. Business Development Manager | Moz

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I have the same problem. My Facebook page can not be found although all the information matches: https://www.facebook.com/tulipbridal

You can wait, the decission is from google, but i agree with the last response. Make google knows they doesn't want to cache / see this page with robots or another method, and then, wait. There's no more options for somethink like that.

Hi - A good question to ask is do you have 400 pages that are relevant, up-to-date and useful to visitors. If you have duplicate content, empty pages and so on a decrease in indexed pages is not necessarily a bad thing. You don't want your SEO efforts diluted across multiple pages when there is only one best page and you don't want your visitors to go to a bad/old page because this would be a poor user experience for them. My first check would be to look at your XML sitemap. If you don't have one start there (be sure to upload to Google Webmaster Tools). If you do have one check there are no issues (in Google Webmaster Tools) and also have a manual check to ensure that it is using correct tags, indexed all of your pages etc. Also have a look at your robots.txt file - have you made any changes lately? Blocked sections from being accessed? Content - do you have lots of pages with similar content. If so you should use rel-canonical tags so that search engines know which page should be indexed. Find the true amount of webpages you have (and want indexed), tidy up the what and how pages get indexed and then use that number as your benchmark for amount of pages indexed. Hope that helps,Davinia

Thanks Lantec.

I would suggest Prestashop, but I am not partial by any means. I develop exclusively with it and I am one of their moderators. Magento is also good too. I think one of the biggest considerations is what the store does in business, how many products, and what features do they need that are not in the default package of the e-commerce program. All platforms have good features, but everyone has features others do not.

I'm tracking keywords in .co.uk and .ie so hopefully they will roll out  all English language soon

I totally agree on this as well. I think it varies greatly on what product lines you are running listings on and the best thing to do is track the leads that come in via rfq's and phone (oof TN) and follow them to see if they convert. I think we can all agree that it is difficult to gauge the seo benefit on it.

You are correct. We discovered the pattern across many products not just SteriPEN. Thank you for taking the time to respond.

Directories are unlikely to get you better rankings, many directories have been devalued in recent months. Given that many of them are freemium, you are better spending your time writing a great piece of content and reaching out to bloggers/websites to help you spread the word about your brand. 1. Always start with the onpage optimisation, without it your backlinks will mean little. Think more about site speed, URL structure and user benefit because this is what will give you a better conversion rate. 2. It is possible but as Gavo said below, it depends on how competitive the keywords are. Look at interacting with people on social media, follow them, look at how they would like to be connected with and do so. For example, if some influential in your industry is talking about a particular topic, put your spin on things and get a conversation going. This will help make you an authority in this industry.

Yeah that's definitely an issue we've had in the past (php execution time). It times out so quick for loading anything. Hopefully it's just a server switch issue that we can upload directly as our robots.txt and sitemap.html aren't showing up either. Thanks for leading me in the right direction. Very helpful.

Are you absolutely sure there isn't something else going on?  Usually Google is pretty good at picking up this type of thing and just discounting the links.  Plus, if the links were generated to pages that didn't exist then they wouldn't be passing any signals (i.e. penalty) to the site.  In fact, removing pages is a way to remove links.  (See http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2296653/Removing-Unnatural-Links-by-Removing-Pages-on-Your-Website) You mentioned it happened about 6 weeks ago...I'm not sure if it fits, but 4 weeks ago there was a very large Panda update that upset a lot of site's rankings.  Any chance the drop happened around May 20? Have you checked WMT and sucuri.net for signs of malware?  Often when pages get injected like that it comes along with malware. I'd also look for things like accidental noindexing or blocking pages with robots.txt.  I had three sites this week consult with me because they thought they had penalties and two had lost their analytics code and the other had accidentally noindexed the majority of their site. If the ranking drop is indeed due to the bad links then you really should recover now that they've all been disavowed.  But I'm guessing there's something else going on.

I am not from that industry but in my opinion you are along the right lines, London Digital Marketing Jobs seems like a good choice, To back this I would take a look at the Bing Webmaster tools if you have them setup ? They offer a wealth of keyword information that google no longer offer, even if it is a separate search engine personally i would expect search trends to be very similar, Any chance you have an adwords account ? The keyword tool does the job well , www.google.com/sktool/ Also try Ubersuggest for Google suggested results , http://ubersuggest.org/ If you do have Google Adwords it is an amazing keyword resource by bidding on general/phrase match keyword, once you have some click data, mark your keywords and look at the keywords search terms selected data, I then disallow any search terms we don't want, Using this we have collected a lot of keyword data, I hope this helps slightly James

The easiest way is to rebrand as a completely-original word or phrase so that people would only ever write (or search for) that word or phrase in reference to your company. The other major way would be to use schema code on your website to "tell" Google exactly what you are: a business in Sweden (and not a town in Minnesota) so that there is less confusion on the part of the search engine. I'd start here. Good luck!

Google trys to connect every term and combination of terms within a query to a search query entity. It relates the terms and the entities with a probabilistic model in order to define how closely connected they are. Regarding now the webpage of centerofpolitics it is not in the first 200 results of Google.com (US). Probably, due to the 10 occurences of the word larry in the html of the webpage (some on title, some in body, some in links) Google has a loose connection with the word "Larry" of the "Larry Page" search query. Since, "Larry Page" as an entity is an authority for Google, the webpage of centerofpolitics should be a result ranked low in a search query that matches exactly the name of the entity such as "Larry Page" or "Page Larry".

Try http://www.rankwatch.com/ https://proranktracker.com/ I use them. they are good.