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In my experience there is not single size that is significantly better than another. It really does depend on the products your advertising and the sites they're being advertised on! It is best to get ads in as many of the supported sizes as you can, then run them all and then review their individual performance, pausing or deleting as necessary. You simply won't know which works best until you try a few different ones out If it helps, I've recently ran a display campaign and my 300 x 250 and 336 x 280 are performing very well, however I have had to pause my 200 x 200 and 468 x 80 ones as they were performing very poorly!

Good idea! I appreciate the time and feedback, Thank you! I will try what you said on a few slider images and see if it shows the images when crawled. Maybe I can pop the the same images as the links out on some of them so they are still being used on the page and not lose too much "juice"

Thanks, that's very helpful.  Signals on the video are mostly positive, I was just a bit worried about the repetitive word, but I guess I really should have been focusing on the user experience, which is just fine.

Morgan, Thank you for your insight. I've been pulling my hair out with how much traffic has been lost with the 301 redirects. I've come to the conclusion that we have to, in a way, start our SEO efforts over again specifically with the inbound links. Your comments just gave me a positive direction to move towards. Thank you. Conrad

Hi there, You're describing quite a common frustration with Google Seller Ratings not appearing. The official line from Google can be found here: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/190657?hl=en. The excerpt that is relevant to you is as follows: My seller ratings aren't appearing Reviews are not added to Google Shopping results in real-time, so you may notice a delay between receiving a new review and its addition to your rating in the Google Shopping results. The same is true when a review is removed from a seller rating website. If you notice your reviews have stopped appearing, please make sure that the store name and registered domain match in your Google Merchant Center account and third party seller rating websites. Learn more about how to update the store name and website URL in the Google Merchant Center account settings. For Google Shopping star ratings to appear, typically your business needs at least 30 unique seller reviews, each from the past 12 months. However, we may show ratings for merchants with fewer than 30 reviews if we have sufficient data from other sources to determine an accurate rating. George @methodicalweb

No problem. A big give away is normally the URL, for instance anything with numbers in is a big red flag. I have just updated our profile as I noticed we hadn't included our websites. Hope you find some useful citations on the list! J

Olivier - A couple of quick ideas to make sure you are ranking locally for SEO: 1. Have you verified ownership of your Google Places Page? 2. Have you added store hours, verified your address, business category, etc? 3. Does your website list your store address on the footer of each page?  That can certainly help.  I'd also recommend putting it into an RDFa or Microformat tag, so that it's easier for companies to read. For example, our corporate address is: Customer Paradigm 5353 Manhattan Circle #103 Boulder, CO 80303 Phone: 303.473.4400 Google and other search engines can figure this out, but if you use a v-card type of format, it's easier for them to structure the data more properly. Here's an example: Customer Paradigm 5353 Manhattan Circle Suite 103 Boulder CO, 80303 303.473.4400 4. Make sure you add a few photos onto your Google + page, uploaded by you, the owner.  This should help with ranking. 5. Try to get some of your customers (perhaps in a second day email, after a product has arrived) to do a review on your Google+ page. More google reviews, especially with star ratings, will help. Hope this helps! -- Jeff

My pleasure any time

Hi Ben'J, As Peter has remarked, the community can't make specific suggestions without actually seeing your client's website. It's perfectly fine if you can't share this information, for client confidentiality reasons, but the advice you'll get here will perforce be generic rather than specific. If your client is running a local retail shop, then your efforts for them could include: Ensuring that you are optimizing the tags and content of the website not just for product/service terms, but also for the city name in which the shop is located. Ensuring that the complete NAP (name, address, phone) is in the website footer and on the contact page, encoded in Schema markup. Using Schema markup for a testimonials page to begin publishing user generated content in the form of testimonials. Creating an ongoing content development plan which showcases not just products/services, but also local geography. Linking the website up to a Google+ Local page for the business. Building citations for the business on appropriate third party local business directories and review platforms. Other forms of marketing including social outreach, linkbuilding and video marketing. The website plays a major part in local rankings, and thus, local traffic. Ensuring that the site reflects not just what the business is and does but WHERE it does it is extremely important. You want neighbors to immediately recognize that this is a local business, serving the local community, and the imagery, text and overall optimization of the website must be organized to reflect this. Hope this helps!

Absolutely; you should implement it anyway. Even if Authorship doesn't turn out to be as important as it was first thought it would be, it is another signal to Google.

Great to hear. Let me know if you have any question when you start that project. Casey

This is a neat idea and like Oleg said should be straightforward for you to do if you just cookie all visitors.  You could then check  what cookie they have, and show the defined images (or pull several images from your DB).  I don't know of any "pre-made" tool that will do this for you, dynamic remarketing through Google adwords is somewhat similar but that is showing a set of images to users who are no longer on your site (user goes to x product page, and are shown x product later when they are watching video on youtube  ect...)

Nofollowed links are worse than "dofollowed" links as they do not flow link authority. Its unlikely that all of your links will be dofollow but if you have too many nofollowed links, could be a bad sign. Usually nofollowed links are 1-15% of the profile but depends on industry. Compare your portfolio to successfully ranking competitors to see where you should be at.

Tell your client he is on the right track with wanting to target long tail keywords (that will make his ego feel better) but that it's not so simple as adding one keyword to all the pages. After you choose which page to rank for "oak furniture" (my guess would be the home page or main oak furniture page), choose which long tail phrases containing oak furniture you want to rank for, then choose pages (if different from the main oak furniture page) that would be a good fit. For example, you may have different pages for "discount oak furniture" vs. "taking care of your oak furniture." Do the same with other variations like oak table, oak chair, etc. I would recommend doing this keyword research first and then taking that to the client with a plan of action. If this is too manual, try using your existing product browsing categories as top-level keywords (so all the oak chairs have "oak chair" in the title, etc). This will get you a bit more granular than just blanketing the site with the broadest possible term. Your client should still be prepared that only one or two pages from the site will rank for that broad of a term.

Hey Susan, Thanks for writing in. I'm afraid I am not certain what you mean when you say that you've been told that my social sites are not lining up with my webpage. Can you please clarify that for me? As for the social data in your campaign, it looks like we are correctly tracking Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. The Social section defaults to tracking on a daily timeframe so if you don't have any retweets, mentions, comments, etc. in the last day, you wouldn't see any interactions listed for those social networks on the main Social dashboard. If you click into the specific tab for each type of social network, you should be able to dig a bit deeper into the interactions there. I do see interactions for both G+ and Facebook, but it looks like you haven't had any mentions or retweets in the Twitter account you are tracking since September. I hope this helps and I look forward to hearing back from you soon. Chiaryn

1 Yes, Bing have stated that they will ignore the sitemap if it is not accurate 2. no 3, no 4 yes 5 no, use priorities for that 6  looks ok I would look into using the Google and Bing sitemap generators, problem solved (if you have access to the server) http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2013/05/23/bing-sitemap-plugin-1-0-launch.aspx http://googlesitemapgenerator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/gsg-installation.html

Thank you for your inputs Jeff, I really like your ideas specially the professional photos idea. The client is big car dealership inventory should not be a problem

I have blocked the Wayback Machine for a client and not allowed them to index the site. I blocked them via the robots.txt and not Meta NoIndex, and while blocking Wayback Machine it did NOT impact the positions within the targeted Google results. Hope this helps.

Michael, Great question.  I always look at Google's Keyword planner to see how it treats it.  Couple things I noticed.  1) Google doesn't see a difference between lower-case and uppercase "E" in e-file.  2) Google lists 30 exact match searches for 1099 e-file software and none for 1099 efile software. I would probably go with "e-file" as the target keyword, and perhaps use "efile" in the text and alt-image text, just as a backup. Eric