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They have the ability to, if it's actually being used with live data that i'm not sure. I posted a link to a few interesting articles on a forum i'm on: http://forums.seochat.com/seo-help-general-chat-16/google-understanding-images-482771.html

Google is your friend: They may well use it, per what they have stated previously. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2012/04/1000-words-about-images.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibnBpjMfKdY

Oops, I missed that part. Have you checked Google Search Console to see if someone set any URL parameters? The first thing I would do is determine how many pages actually should be indexed to see if there's a large discrepancy between that and the number Google shows. A crawler like Screaming Frog can help with this. If you export the crawl to Excel, you can easily remove duplicates in the canonical URL column and filter out the noindexed pages. If you find there's no real discrepancy, Google may have simply been cleaning house of some really old links in the index that hadn't been crawled in a while. Beyond that, if you can pinpoint any specific URLs that have been deindexed, use the "Fetch as Google" tool to help diagnose or post it here so the community can take a look.

Thanks, Bernadette. The consolidation has been done, and surprisingly seems to correlate with our dropping visibility. Do you have any experience with a "consolidation" that might shed some light?

Hi Brian, How new is the US site? You mentioned "Italian and French" sites. Are those geo-targeted sites that are operated separately from the US site or are they translated content? If you can provide more information including the URLs of the US site you expect to show, the branded term, and more about the company setup, I can help give you some things to do. I know this is frustrating but it is fixable.

Garrett - to my knowledge Google does not use og:description if the meta description is blank.

Thanks a lot  - I really appreciate your help!

Has the content of the pages been updated? Could this be direct result of query mismatches now vs previous content in Spanish and Portuguese ( i suppose those are the content languages used in Latin America). Have you made sure no 3rd party coincidences are not causing this (competitor coming along strong in the same period of time, market demand changes, search phrases changes)? Have you compared your organic arrival queries from before to now and see if you are getting similar numbers of hits for specific key phrases? There has got to be some further digging involved here, this just sounds way too odd to be a natural situation, something has got to be funny or wrong.

Hi, But its already 45 days , then after not getting any report of clicks & impressions.

Something like that can be done, but you must exercise care to not get slapped for duplicate content penalties. There can only be one place for that content in the eyes of your users and google, meaning the funny proxy server should never itself be visible to public. But if you do this right, you can have the content rendered on your desired page on your site which should get captured by Google properly as well. But if you really want to be sure, test it, setup a test page like this without all the fancy dev work. and have google crawl your site and see what it reports back after it picks up that page. I think you will be ok if you do your research and do not miss your rel canonicals or other countermeasures for duplicate content. However it gets rendered on your /page, make sure google console can show/see the same content there.

Hi Joe, The ranking factors are not appreciably different for Bing/Yahoo than for Google, but you will always see some disparity between them. One suggestion I would offer is make sure you are as diligent with your Bing Business Listing as you are with Google. Otherwise, look at those ranking ahead of you and see what they are doing you are not, then see if you can manipulate a page to rise in the rankings. Another thing to do would be to use Bing Webmaster Tools like you are probably using Google Analytics. This will surely provide some insights into which pages are rankings and which ones might need to be tweaked for Bing.

Hi Clayton as @Alick mentions this is spam, however, I don't recommend you to ignore it. You should take care of it otherwise, the spam will keep coming and coming with different names and forms. Veronica, there are no real backlinks, it doesn't have anything to do with Wordpress, and neither bots, at least for this type of spam. It all happens within Google Analytics, so you have to deal with it from there with filters. It may take a bit of time to set the filters, but it will save lots of headaches. You will find more details about this issue and step by step instructions on how to create these filters on this post. Who is behind the "Secret.ɢoogle.com ... Vote for Trump spam" and how to get rid of it Hope it helps, Carlos

For SEO for ecommerce, you need to make sure each of your product pages is optimized well. Each page should have a unique meta description, title tag, and well written content. While this might be obvious, it's extremely important for ecommerce. You need to think about each webpage on your website as an opportunity to rank, so ensuring each page is unique with well crafted content is a great starting point. Be sure to do competitor research to see who is currently ranking for the important keywords you are targeting so you can come up with a strategic plan to outrank them.

I think that the answer that is right for me might be different than the answer that is right for you. In the 1990s I used perl to code a basic shopping cart and used it for a couple of years.  I collected non-personal data about the customers' purchase intentions and passed it to Verisign, who collected personal and credit card data to complete the sale.  I used perl to code message boards, calculators, grade homework assignments, generate webpages from databases and much more.  All of this was done before such things were commercialized and made-to-order by big companies. I stopped programming over ten years ago because it became so easy to get people to write short programs for me at freelance sites - and because age made it hard for me to concentrate hard on code.  I can write the specs and someone will code it and post a working copy before I have to pay for anything. They get it done faster than I could have done the work myself - and at a cost that is much lower than the cost of my time.  And, its kinda nice to now know a few people in Poland, India, or Peru who I can message through the freelance site to see if they will do a job for me. Today, if I used WordPress, I would want to know php.  There are a lot of other widely-used content managers, shopping carts and other service platforms that use various languages.   I would learn the language that served my platform.   If I needed general data handing I would learn perl.  I require most freelancers to code in perl because I can understand it and can scan the code to be sure that they are not transmitting anything.  I can also tweak the code a year later if small tweaks are needed.   If I have a really big job or a job that handles really important functions, I will go to someone in the USA who I know and trust.

I would not touch adwords express with a 20 ft pole, such a tool or hack available or not... http://blog.whitesharkmedia.com/adwords-express-sabotages-small-business-owners