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I have a question about the offerCount item within an AggregateOffer type. I want to show the "true" price range of every product in our inventory but we don't automatically load them all to the page. Most implementations I have seen that trigger the price range showing in the SERP have the individual offers marked up further down the page as well, but that wouldn't work for us. We show 10 or so out of 100s. In my mind there are two options here. We can use the true aggregate price of the set and skip tagging up individual offers. Or we can tag up the offers displayed but still show what I am calling the "true" aggregate price. Any opinions on whether Google needs the individual offers tagged up? And any opinions on whether the individual offers tagged up need to "match" the aggregate offer prices? THANKS

Perfect thank you.

I don't know how the East got in there. One thing to try is to look at the footer on the Bing result, and click Feedback. You can give negative feedback or comments about the result, and request that they contact you for followup. That may help, and I'd be interested to hear if they did get back to you and what they said.

Hi Everett, thank you! We will give this a try. If you have any more help based on below we would appreciate it:  As we are looking at replacing reviews to ratings, rating is a property under reviewRating. I was a little confused on where we would be nesting/replacing this? Any help/tips on this would be appreciated or examples. Thank you!

Interesting UX question. Short answer; click menu is best, but its not black and white. Naturally its more subtle than that. You mention regular content. Regular content being hidden by any mechanism is naturally not too user friendly. Accordions can often be overlooked, text hidden in the hover state of images is a client favourite that is also terrible UX practice. The mechanism doesn't matter too much - its the fact content is hidden by an un-signposted mechanism. The author knows its there, but your visitor will not. Menu isn't content though; its a different beast. A menu needs to exhibit good information hierarchy. We try to keep our main menu to 7 items or less, essentially for clarity of the first tier of offerings. This can often necessitate sub-menus. Sub-menus are hidden content, we're just arguing the toss about mechanism. So first off we'd suggest a nice little signpost like a downward arrow to show which main items have sub-menus Also note we don't have hover states on touch devices, so unless you're planning on a second type of menu for that, your choice is made for you and it'll certainly need to be selection rather than hover based. Select to get something is more in keeping with how everything else on the web works; text links, buttons etc. Hover feels more immediate but if your site demographic is broad, bear in mind that the dexterity required will elude a percentage of your audience. Consider the accessibility implications of this and your site client needs. For example, hover menus can be a real pain when the sub-menu content is wider than the trigger area. This will have happened to all of you; hover over the main menu item, see the sub-menu item you want, move the mouse to select the sub menu item... o dear the sub menu has disappeared on you. You left the hover area before reaching the sub menu and the hover state is lost. As well as accidental deactivation its quite possible to get annoying accidental activation with hover too. As well as audience consider the sub-menu itself. If you have a couple of small items consider hover, a massive mega-menu will nearly always be better toggled by selection. On that note, if you're using mega-menus consider Nielsens excellent guide here: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/mega-menus-work-well/  PS: I'd encourage everyone to start thinking about selection rather than 'clicks'. I still slip up myself, but clicks are an outmoded, desktop-centric term that is very dangerous to bandy about when making responsive websites. Much as your anchor text should never be "Click here" we should always be thinking about "selection". Selection speaks to intent and action rather than physical methodology, as that methodology can be clicking, yes, but also tapping, voice command, keyboard based, etc.

So glad to help, and wishing you good luck!

Appreciate the thoroughness of the response Ed, thanks for taking the time.

Thank you.

Hi Samantha, Ok just emailed Moz Help as you instructed. Thanks!

Not happened to my sites, so pinch of salt and all that. However, imo, root cause of this could be a number of things, but is likely a resource limitation on the hosting. Slowing down the crawl may well fix the 504 issue, but if your SEO is a glorious success and the site gets more traffic, then you may be looking at 504's again. A 504 is a timeout and the problem is server side not with Moz. Made any recent DNS changes? Check your DNS health at something like https://mxtoolbox.com/domain/ Firewall active? Could be it doesn't like Rogerbot. Logs should be telling your tech team what's going on WordPress? Occasionally database corruption will cause 504's If your team isn't able to provide a little more memory (likely culprit to my mind) then consider implementing caching; this will lighten the server load and also load pages faster to boot; good for users and SEO.

Yes.  Google have said many many times (too many to cite) that schema, J-son and using the data highlighter is one of the best ways that you can spend your time optimising.  You're making their lives easier and telling them directly how they can enrich the user experience for their searchers. I have tested a number of different ways.  I have rich snippet plugins for review stars.  These are great and if I add the google review widget to a page then the star rating of that product will show almost immediately (we have 230ish google reviews at 4.9.) Then I discovered the data highlighter and found that this works really well for individual products and getting reviews (the words not the stars) in the results and also helps with all sorts of other things.  So each new page gets the full treatment from the data highlighter including local business, reviews, authors (if it's an article) and products.  You need to include the prices and availability and if these are not available on the page to highlight then use the 'add extra info' function in the data highlighter and just say that the products are immediately available and you can add a price.  This can be a 'from price' or a range. But without the price you're unlikely to get anywhere in my experience.  Experiment with adding prices.  If it's an auction add the price as "zero" or "$0" and just see whether you get featured. Its a very responsive and fast system so you don't have to wait, just add the markup, send in the spiders and wait a few hours.  Lately google has been taking longer to index so it might take a day or so but it's still a short enough timeframe to run tests.  Also if you're using shopify or wordpress then you should be appearing with site-links, hyperlinks in the SERP and reviews specific to your product anyway if you're using H1's and H2's correctly and structuring the pages properly. Then lastly there's just adding in the code to the page in the header / footer.  I've found that this trumps everything.  For example If I say i've got 230 reviews in the footer, then my little widget (that updates my reviews each day will not update and i'll still be stuck on 230 even when the widget is saying more.  When I go in and update the code in the header it will update in a day or so.  So it seems that manually adding the code is the firmest and strongest (or most trustworthy) signal. Also remember that google has to trust your site to serve up rich results so newer sites, dodgy claims or anything other then whiter than white-hat is going to end you up with nothing showing up.  Google are always trying to verify markup and if they catch you out exaggerating or being inaccurate then it's going to cause problems.  They've said this many times too.  It's classed as 'markup spam'. So get highlighting or get yourself a code-builder to make some J-son or code you can insert directly onto the product pages.  I'm not a developer but I do it with a tool called SEO Profiler where you just type the words and it turns it into J-son for the site by magic and you just paste it in there.  There's free versions of this on the schema.org site.  Also check this out from moz on schema You will start showing just give it time. And mark up EVERYTHING you can.  Always worth it, but be comprehensive or it won't show. So add in the best guess price and the best guess 'anything' that's missing.

Sorry for any confusion here. The Spam Score in the new Links v2 and Link Explorer reports is quite a bit different than the previous version of Spam Score. A Spam Score of 28% means that 28% of sites with similar features to yours have been penalized by Google. This does not mean that your site is spammy and if you have not had any penalties I would not be concerned about that score. It is best used to judge the quality of inbound links to your site, giving you a signal to help you determine which of those links needs some further investigation for possible removal. Happy to answer any other questions about the new tool or the score - IanW@moz.com

Hi there! Thanks so much for the question! I'm so sorry for any trouble. Could you please send an email to help@moz.com with the email you used to sign up for the free trial? That way we can look into getting this taken care of for you. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thanks for the advice, that's really helpful.

Hmm very interesting, thank you!

Has the robots.txt stayed the same? Any js blocked there?