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My apologies -- I think I was not very clear. Here's what I mean. You have two search activities going on: Someone not in Greece looking at non-personalized search results for Greece for keyword X. This will give you one set of results. Someone in Greece doing a search for X. The results will still be based on that individual person's own search history. Even if there is no Google account logged in, Google still has information on prior searches and more for that IP address, browser, and probably a lot more. So, the search results will still be "personalized" to an extent. Now, I would imagine that if the second person would also use non-personalized search results for Greece, then the results should be very similar. Does this help?

My experience backs up David's opinion. Google doesn't care if your NASA if you're trying to sell cheese & crackers. Since that's not what users are searching for it's not advantageous for Google to show people NASA ads. No one really wants astronaut cheese anyway (wait... is that string cheese? maybe they do) Auction bids & quality score are based heavily on estimated click through rate, landing page experience, ad relevance, and ad formats. LP Experience can be measured in several ways and Google has always been really keen to keep that information under lock & key. There are theories that they look at time on site, bounce back rate, click through rate, conversion rates, etc. But there's no real answer - except that I am very confident that the specific page's authority is not a heavily weighted factor. I know you came here for a customized response that's more in depth than static information on the web, but I'm going to direct you to this video anyway because it's seriously informative http://searchengineland.com/google-new-adwords-ad-rank-video-195049 It's legit. I see this happen every day. There are many theories behind what goes into landing page relevance, but the authority of that page is insignificant. Thousands of companies use PPC specific landing pages that are excluded from robots.txt and have high QS. I understand that 10% can make a huge difference when you're on the cusp of getting to an 8, 9, or 10, but overall there is more you will be able to do in the account that will impact QS than what you can do with your landing page. (that's not to say that CRO isn't beneficial, but that's CRO, not QSO - quality score optimisation) I'd rather guide you in the direction of your negative keywords and keyword grouping techniques. the more specific your keywords are to your copy to your landing page the higher quality score you will receive. Note: I said specific. "Cheese" as a head term is not a specific query... "11 in bamboo cheese board" is a very specific query. Got a little side tracked there. Hope this information is still useful to you!

Yes, the dashboard you mentioned is for 10+ locations. Larger clients generally keep a spreadsheet or database of locations and upload it every time it changes or periodically. You can still manage and upload with the tool, but you'll probably be better off managing the locations individually. https://www.google.com/local/business/?hl=en Click "get your page" and create a new listing - from the sounds of it, it'll be a new storefront. Managing the pages separately shouldn't be too much of a hassle.

Have you checked webmaster tools from google? They can give some information to you.

Hey there, Thanks for the question. The Mozscape index was actually updated on June 20th. You can read about that last update here: http://moz.com/products/api/updates We also note the last update on the front page of OSE. I hope that answers your question. Cheers, Joel.

If you got the "successfully uploaded" message then this means that your disavow file was in the right format and Google is able to read it. "if a site is linking to me on multiple pages on their site do i have to disavow each link or just the domain is enough." If you've disavowed on the domain level (i.e. domain:example.com) then that's all you need to do.  You should be disavowing on the domain level for each site too.  It's rare that I'll just disavow one url. One other thing I'd like to point out is that your disavowed links will still remain in Webmaster Tools. A lot of people think that they disappear once they're disavowed but they don't.

I would give DYNO Mapper a try. It's great Sitemap Generator that includes link / inventory information, Google Analytics integration, and comments for collaboration. It can import xml or scan urls pretty accurately. It is probably more useful for planning architecture than exporting for Google,

Thank you Miriam.  We have switched from one brand to another (EasyStreet to Highgarden) in a couple of our markets.  We implemented a 301 redirect strategy for those sites and saw very little effect on our organic traffic. Thanks again for your input.

Hi Ken Google is much larger than us so they will always show more data. Also when checking your linking root domains, make sure you are filtering for all 3 metrics for page, sub-domain, and root-domain. We basically index about 35% of what Google can. A lot of people recommend using multiple backlink tools to obtain a full profile. This has come up many times in the Q&A before so you should check out some of the answers there which might help: http://moz.com/community/q/discrepancy-between-ose-internal-links-and-webmaster-tools http://moz.com/community/q/seomoz-not-showing-latest-backlinks http://moz.com/community/q/why-is-there-such-a-big-discrepancy-between-ose-and-gwt-regarding-backlinks http://moz.com/community/q/why-does-opensiteexplorer-tell-me-i-have-292-linking-domains-and-google-webmasteer-tools-says-528 Hope this helps!

Hi Jesse, I could see why some people would argue that you should have a consistent design across all your templates on the site including your homepage. The homepage is in most cases the most linked to page on your site and based on that has the highest authority. By having some important links not on there it could be that you're not passing on some of the value/ authority that the homepage has.

Hi there, As far as your platform goes, product name changes simply shouldn't be causing 404s and this can be (relatively) easily bypassed by introducing the product id to the end of the URL. The name can then change but the product id remains the identifier for the product to load on the page. With regards to your 40K pages without meta titles or descriptions, it's going to be almost impossible to fix that manually. It sounds as though you need to establish a business case, which could be done by fixing a few hundred of them (based on the ones that get the most traffic) and seeing if it has any improvement. This might not have an impact though as it sounds as though they aren't doing well in SEO as it is, although I agree there's a chance that these poorly optimised pages might be hurting your overall rankings. The challenge you face sounds like more political/strategic than technical though. Either SEO has actual/potential value to your business or it doesn't. If content producers aren't versed in SEO or focused on maintaining it or producing optimised pages and content then you probably have an uphill battle ahead of you to get them to focus on it. Good luck, George

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

Thanks for the thorough response! Ecommerce sure does add a level of complexity to the whole process.

Page Title is correct in all ways. Browser Title is for the people that don't live/work in your industry. Thats how I choose.

This is very helpful, thank you!

That's good to hear and thanks for the input! The MOZ page grader told me that over 100 links was too many and so did a commenter from a separate post.  All clear now though.