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Hi Hamid, If your site is relatively new or you've only just added your sitemap to Google Search Console then it will take a while for you'll see this number go up. What you can do though is check our your Crawl Stats in Google Search Console. There you can find out how many pages Google is currently crawling daily on your site. If this number is very low, then you need to find ways to get more authority to your pages so Google will find it worthwhile to index these pages as well. You have a limited crawl budget and if that's relatively low then it could take a while before Google will index all these pages as they just haven't found them before you submitted the sitemap. Martijn.

See the comment(s) here from danbri (Dan Brickley, Schema.org webmaster), last one matters though and should address your exact situation. You may not even need to make any changes really, see if you need to and see if it is worth the effort and time. https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1109#issuecomment-212480234

I believe social influences SEO, but even if it doesn't right this minute, will it? Do you anticipate changes to the way people search for businesses like yours? I believe that Facebook is working on grabbing some search share from Google. As that happens, that social investment will pay off even if it's not paying off now.  Already I can use Facebook to search for something like Hotels in NYC and get true personalized results - I'll see the names of my friends who like those pages. Knowing my friends, it will let me know which hotel is swanky, which one is cheap, depending on which of my friends liked it.

PM replied Just to keep others in the loop (without giving away too much information), it appears that newsworthy and non-newsworthy articles on the site are not currently separated in any way. For example, sitename.com/articles contains a mix of blog and news articles, which will prevent it from being accepted in Google News because Google News wants only newsworthy content. I suggested coming up with a way to separate these news articles from the /articles page and only submit that URL to Google News - eg. sitename.com/news All articles (news and blog articles) could still appear on the /articles page, but the news articles need to be isolated, somehow. It's a great site and I don't think there will be any issues being accepted in Google News once the news articles can be separated from the non-newsworthy articles. All the best with it and I'd love to hear how you go! Cheers, David

Are you referring to having a page like this -- http://www.selectequipment.net/brands/Cutler-Hammer and simply adding a facet/filter for product type? The individual product pages Should be optimized for Brand+Product+Model. The faceted navigation within the site alludes to the fact that you can "drill down" onto a specific brand, but clicking the link takes to the general brand page vs. a page filtered for that brand...  or allowing you to filter product type when viewing by brand.. In this case, I would create the navigable heirarchy within the site to view all of the brands and filter by product type within the brand pages, essentially creating all of these "combos" you are talking about.  Further, I would create limits so pages with fewer than say 5 unique items (you determine appropriate #) are noindex,follow.   Lastly, I would make sure all product pages are also optimized to include the brand, product type, and part number as part of the optimization goals for each product page. Hope this helps! Cheers, Jake Bohall

AS a rule of the thumb, no matter what changes applies on 3XX redirections, but the least you do it the best, not just for juice loss but for easier management of your website. You definitely do not want 2x or 3x 301 to happen unless it's really unavoidable based on how complicated your website is. Now your best bet depends on what you want to accomplish. In the past I always tried to be conservative and try not to lose too much of my so hardly earned traffic, and didn't want to lose a piece of it, but after a while you see consequences of that, as you start having a mixed composition of legacy URLs on your website. I would say, test in a relatively small section and see what happens. If your loss of traffic/rankings is too significative roll the changes back (don't forget the 301 back), and use your preferred method, but take into account that in the long run you want to have a manageable website limiting exceptions as much as possible. On a side note, people normally looks at 301 like a loss of value no matter what, but that's not always the case, the big deal with 301s is the loss of value accrued from other pages, so, if after you 301: change all the internal links so you don't have unnecessary internal 301s contact external websites to get the url changed. Once you do that, the 301 won't matter at all, as the resources sending value to that page are now linking to the new one. Hope that helped.

Apparently this didn't work. According to the Moz tool I have the same amount of duplicate title tags as before.

Thanks Vijay, I did read this a few days ago and it wasn't helpful. All of the information was either not relevant to my situation or inconclusive.

Hey there! Tawny from the Customer Support team here! This sounds like a juicy issue, and one I'd love to dive in and help you with! Unfortunately, without being able to take a look at your campaigns and account directly, it's tough to provide specific support for these issues. That said, if you write in to help@moz.com and give us the details of what you're seeing - basically exactly what's in this question - we should be able to help investigate for you.

I know that there is a thumbnail meta tag:  --but I doubt this populates it. My gut tells me that Google will do this automatically. On seorountable, they speculate it may come from product schema/market and the rich snippets Google shows for them.

Great, thanks. I just send you an email with the details.

is there any recourse to take for competitors that aren't following the SAB guidelines? A way to report or flag?

Sorry to say that but you're kinda gaming the aggregated reviews schema. Google states that for aggregating reviews, you're good as far as you're referring to a specific product, but you can't use schema markup to refer to a category. I mean you can but Google won't simply be showing your markup as that's not the way aggregatedratings are supposed to work, no one will get angry but you'll be getting no rewards for your work. Detailed info about review snippets here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/reviews#review-snippet-guidelines As an alternative you may want to consider other options like aggregate price.

Hi Jepaul4, Thanks for asking your question. As long as the address and phone number for each location of your business is unique, do not worry about the name being the same. Google understands that a brand like McDonald's has thousands of locations with the same name at different addresses, and they will not consider your listings duplicates if they share a name but have different addresses and phone numbers, too. Hope this helps!

Hi Andrew, Re. your comment: My main concern is that in the eyes of Google I'd be stripping a lot of content off the domain all at once, and then replacing it with these shell pages containing nothing (in terms of SEO) but meta, a headline, navigation links, and an iFrame. ... you are right to be concerned about this. It is going to look, as you say, like a very thin page with no value-add for anyone visiting, or Google. If the pages served no real purpose to Google, you could always robots them out, but what is being suggested isn't a particularly good idea if you are still wanting them to rank in the SERPs. -Andy

Hi Meisha, If Vijay's suggestion doesn't prove to be the root of the issue, it's important to know that Google can pull info for both the first and second lines of your organic listing from a variety of sources. If that's what's happening in your case, and the data they are pulling is wrong, you need to search Google for the source of that data and correct it there, in hopes that Google will eventually update what they are showing in your second line.

Hi There, Sub-domains are treated as a  separate entity now, and they don't add to SEO value of the main domain. Any links within the subdomain to the main domain are treated as external links. Since links are coming from an external domain but the same IP, this may be treated a low-quality backlink for the main domain, though people are divided over this but it can neutral to negative impact instead of being positive. As search engines would consider this as unnatural linking. Sub-Folders are treated as part of the domain and pass all the SEO value when connecting internally. Here is a response from Rand Fishkin to a similar question Subfolders are the way to go, but they're hard to do for a lot of organizations. Many CMS' (like Hubspot) make it quite challenging to host a Wordpress installation on a subfolder, but subdomains are pretty easy. Hence, when choosing where to host a blog or a separate content section, many folks go with the easier route rather than the one that requires a lot of technical effort and webdev/engineering time. However, that doesn't mean that they're not losing out - I'd wager that all of those companies would see a bump if they moved their blogs to a subfolder of the same domain. We see this in example after example when sites invest in it, and you can see plenty of folks discussing their own experiences in the comments of the Moz post you linked to. _Source:  https://www.quora.com/Which-is-best-for-search-engine-optimization-a-blog-subdomain-or-blogging-at-a-blog/answer/Rand-Fishkin?srid=2Gsa_ I hope this helps, feel free to ask further questions and respond to answer. Regards, Vijay

Your welcome its all good no worries. I hope it works out let me know how it goes.

Hi There , We had a similar situation with a client, who had used a separate website name for his company (with a DA 20) http://www.divvymaster.com/  and wanted to his website product separately on another website https://www.fairsplit.com/ We built the new website, 301 redirected all the old website right pages to their equivalent/ parallel pages on the new website. As for the main domain, we used explanatory links with text to explain the migration to the user. This had following impact. The old website divvymaster.com DA fell from 20 to 9. The new website authority is around 20 from 1 in 2.5 months. We are getting traffic for almost all the ranked keywords from earlier website plus more visibility on search engines for new keywords for the new website. So, we consider that we were able to pass the authority of the website. Having said that, we also did some good organic backlinking work for the new website. But I would recommend passing the authority to right pages with 301 and informing the users about the redirect on the right pages. Regards, Vijay

You are most welcome, feel free to ask further questions.