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Howdy. It seems that the answer lays in Page Authority. Basically, it shows me that you don't have any links to those specific pages. You do have nice domain authority and a lot of links to domain, but links to actual page, especially with proper anchor texts will do miracles Hope this helps

Hi Greg, Thanks so much you reply was most helpful! Patrick

Thanks Brett! Definitely a great point there about Amazon. We're thinking of posting some use cases and success stories on the product pages, which will be unique and shouldn't be seen as fluff by visitors.

Hi Jacob, Yes, unfortunately there is no strategy for overriding Possum if you are being affected by it due to sharing a building and category with a competitor. This is a completely separate issue from whether or not Google is displaying in-SERP stars for your industry. It's highly unlikely that the two things have anything to do with one another. While I don't know the complete details of your scenario, what you are describing regarding having to zoom on Maps to see yourself sounds very much like Possum, given your shared building/category with a competitor. Unless you can change your categories (which normally you wouldn't want to do) the effect you are experiencing is now being felt by numerous businesses in your same scenario. How are you doing in terms of competing with that competitor who is showing up at the non-zoomed level of the map? How are your citations (do you have a good set, are they accurate, free of duplicates)? How about review count and sentiment in Google? How strong is your website? Because Possum is still so new, I've yet to see many cases brought to light of how a given business is chosen over another one as the one Google is showing at the non-zoomed level, but I would expect ranking factors and user behavior have something to do with it. Sorry not to have an easy solution for you. I hope these thoughts are at least helpful.

Howdy. Yes, canonical or 301 redirect would be your friend. How much time did you give google to reindex before your verdict was "canonical didn't work"? Also, have you "fetched as Google" after you've done canonical? Also, here is another question, why is having paginated version in SERPs bad? Another way to influence your inner rankings is internal links. When you link to job offers page, which link do you use? The one which has more links and more relevant anchor text will be more likely to show in SERPs. Hope this helps.

well, hopefully it will help. Let us know how it goes.

Hi Dmitrii, Thanks, yeah we have canonicals which are self-referencing for products, so I will need to find out if we are able to manually change it on one URL. The content on both pages is identical, which isn't great for SEO, I know. We sell a lot of (15k+) products and have one person writing product descriptions so we aren't always able to make sure the content is unique (although we do write our own descriptions, not copying the ones provided by suppliers). For the websites as a whole, the product descriptions on the microsite (where we sell about 30 products) are probably all either identical or extremely similar to the main website, but all other content is unique and of course the main website has lots more content that is unique to it, so there is just a small overlap, but for the page in question, it is probably 99% duplicate. Personally, I'd be happy if just the microsite ranked for the keyword, but will need to discuss internally whether we want to put in the extra effort of making all product descriptions unique on the microsite. As for relevant links, I think the microsite should have more, as it generally performs much better for keywords related specifically to its niche (which is why I don't like that it's not ranking at all for this keyword just now). Thanks again.

Howdy. Hmm.. Hreflang is for telling google that there is the same article/page/post, just in different language. It doesn't really have much to do with actual rankings, unless you already have bunch of duplicate content. Since you said you are separating duplicate content, there shouldn't be any issues (btw, what exactly do you mean by "Separating duplicate content"?). As for rankings improvements - SEO, links, competitions research etc. Most likely the reason of ranking lower in AU due to AU competition. Or are the competitors who are outranking you in AU are the same as the ones which are not outranking you is US?

I'd be interested in seeing the research you did showing that Google is using Facebook comments as a ranking signal. I think a correlation definitely exists, and there is supporting evidence for it, but to date I don't believe anyone has proven causation. The best research I've found on the topic is here: http://buzzsumo.com/blog/social-shares-and-inbound-links-insights-from-new-correlation-data/ In short, it states that some content that is shared garners more backlinks depending on the type of content and where it is shared. You should compare this with your research and see if it follows the trend noted here. If you're trying to decide whether to move to AMP or not, consider that you could receive a ranking boost as some have, but you could also be sacrificing your ability to convert as highly as you used to. I like to follow this rule of thumb: publishers yes, everyone else no. We all have to make money somehow and stripping out conversions is not a great way to do it.

There is no hard and fast answer to this. I've seen a DMCA request with Google take over a year to respond to, and I've seen it take a couple of months. Treat it as a marathon instead of a sprint. If you're lucky you'll be one of the ones whose case is examined and quickly rectified but expect this to take awhile.

Those links are made into hrefs (eg made clickable) by xml styling that's been applied. It's purely for user convenience - doesn't matter to search engines either way. There is actually a massive benefit to having multiple sub-sitemaps like that though. Once you've submitted the sitemap index to Google Search Console, it will break out the crawling and indexing report for each sub-sitemap. Which means you will now be able to monitor and asses each of different sections of your site separately. Vastly easier to detect and fix crawl errors that way than when everything's lumped into a single sitemap. Paul

Thanks for the information! I think at this point, we are going to leave the page as is and just change the site nav to link to the new page. We'll leave the other page there to keep doing what its been doing, but without the new traffic from the main site.

Just to add on, you'll find some b2b sites have "reviews" and this can also be used for schema! Helpful for social proof but not always a guarantee to work for Google but useful to have coded.

No problemo

I don't know what say, first now i try make better website speed, maybe buy HTTPS  but my competitors don't have this and  have good ranks position this is not solution i think. And last step is content, other no exist.

TY for your offer, I sent the message with some screenshots from the 2 GA accounts. I look forward to hearing back from you. KJr

Hey Adam, As per my message above, if you can provide more info, I can take a look at this for you. Without seeing the Schema though, hard to help fix it. Feel free to send me a private message here if you prefer not to give the info publically (click on my profile > 'Send Private Message'). Cheers