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Hi! This is where I think the misunderstanding of hreflang shows itself. There are others that disagree with me, but the following is my opinion. You have one page in one general language. hreflang markup is for identifying language changes on multiple pages not for geo-targeting. What you have here is content in two general languages and attempting to mark it up for 5 regional dialects. If this is all the content you are going to make and you are keeping it on .co.nl, you will be telling the search engines that you are targeting the Netherlands with the content in English and Dutch. If you want your English and Dutch content without any geo-targeting, you will need to have it on some kind of general TLD like .net, .com or something like that. Then you can use hreflang between the languages for English and Dutch. If you want to target those countries as well, that gets a little more complicated. You'll need to determine the best structure, how you are targeting the content to those regions (this means changing the content somehow), and then implement something with multiple ccTLDs or on a gTLD with regional subfolders. Then we can talk about translations of that regional content. I'm assuming that your best route is going to be transitioning to a more general TLD and offering the two translated content sites as you have that right now, but I can't promise that is what is best for your audience. Take a look at this tool and see what works best for your business and go from there: http://outspokenmedia.com/international-seo-strategy/

I have a few thoughts for you. First, it may take time. In many cases when a penalty is lifted it can take 1-2 weeks to see the benefits of the penalty being lifted. Second, this is probably obvious, but is the brand name relatively unique? In other words, if your brand is a common word or a keyword, then you may not see a return to good rankings. Google may decide that when people search for that word they're not necessarily looking for your brand. Next, it's possible that the site is trapped under Penguin and you need to wait till Penguin updates. With that said, Penguin doesn't usually affect brand terms too heavily, unless, again, the brand is a common keyword. " Since uploading the disavow file, our homepage does not show up at all for branded searches. " - This doesn't sound normal to me. You should not lose rankings after filing a disavow unless you have been extremely aggressive and disavowed really good links. Even then, it takes a good amount of time for the sites in your disavow to be recrawled and the disavow applied. So, if your drop happened shortly after filing the disavow it could be coincidental. There have been a LOT of changes in the SERPS recently and it may be that your site is one of the many that is seeing wild swings. With all of that said, there are cases where Google makes mistakes. I've had a few cases where I just couldn't figure out why a site couldn't rank for their brand name. Here's an example: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/VFnodOiYXqc;context-place=topicsearchin/webmasters/pedorthic. In that case we were able to get a Google employee's ear and magically, after not ranking for months, the brand terms were back within 24 hours. But, this type of situation is likely quite rare. I am guessing that in your case, you need to give it a bit more time. Best of luck!

It's important to remember that the on-page grader only looks at how well optimized your page is for that keyword, which is just one factor out of many different things Google looks at to rank your site. Fixing technical problems and building additional links to your page and site will be very important to your ranking well. Good luck!

Thanks Trevor, All i have to do is add some fresh content and Build Back-links Thanks peter, yes my site is new and after your suggestion i have checked my site in Google Sandbox Checker Tool Unfortunately my site is still in Google Sandbox, i think i have a hard time with my SERP, and i have to wait for good time. Again thanks both

Did you read prerender documentation? https://prerender.io/documentation/install-middleware#apache Because there you can find two examples (Apache + nginx): https://gist.github.com/thoop/8072354 https://gist.github.com/thoop/8165802 How they works? Simple - bot's are received proxified version from this url: http://service.prerender.io/http://example.com/url this works as your server is switch to specific proxy mode called reverse proxy. This works similar as proxy. Proxy caches results from few computers/network to the internet. Computers are clients, they sent requests, proxy go in internet and execute it, then return result to clients. This is normal way. In reverse way - internet is client and proxy serve requests to internal infrastructure. This allow hiding internal infrastructure, easy scaling or even make complex site with few internal servers (one will process /blog, other /shop, third /support, etc). But - this "prerender" version is served only to bots. Normal clients (not in list) received AngularJS version of HTML. Since everything is served from your own server you shouldn't hesitated. Second - do not (!!!) sent prerendered version to clients because prerender can't load pages from your server to make it prerendered. You can make easy overload your server in redirect loop. Also prerender server's too.

Thanks Peter. Duplicate content was never an issue before this month. We're really stumped because most of the duplicate content even is years old. The content from last year is all new. But as you mentioned it could be that Google Finally Woke up. The same content btw was responsible for our 92 very highly trafficked KWs. I'll have our SEO team look at it. Sigh! hope it's just temporary. Thank you so much for taking time out for me. Really appreciate it.

Hi Patrick, Thanks! Excellent answer, only a doubt about Schema, If every product is refreshing every month what happened with that information or could be a dynamic information for Schema?

Hi Donald Glad to hear I helped! You really shouldn't ever go over the limit. You want your title to give the user the point of the content in a catchy way and be able to brand it as well with your company name. If you end going over and can't help it, make sure that only the branding potentially gets cut. If the title is good and matches the user's search intent, they'll click, read your fantastic content, and see the brand. That's really the only instance that titles should go over the limit, but again, I'm not advocating that! Hope this helps! Good luck!

Thanks for the response, Eric. My research suggested the same plan of attack: 1) fixing the canonical tags and 2) Google Search Console URL Parameters. It's helpful to get your confirmation. My best guess is that the parameters you've cited above are not needed for every URL. I agree that this looks like something WebSphere Commerce probably controls. I'm a few organizational layers removed from whoever set this up for us. I'll try to track down where we can control that.

I was referring to the navigation breadcrumbs that use can mark up with structured data. Like this: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/breadcrumbs?hl=en

Hi Peter, thanks for taking the time! I will follow your suggestions! Thank you very much once again ! Best regards Marc

That's great, Will. Wishing you very good luck ahead!

Thanks for the question! I think this is a bit hard to give a clear answer with the information provided so far. I think that unless you are dramatically changing keyword targets I'm not sure why you would need to start a new campaign rather than just adding/modifying existing ad groups? Are you worried that the current CTR is so low that it is impacting the performance of new targets and you feel there is benefit to starting a new campaign with new ads/keywords? In regards to your question, I think it depends on how below your benchmark the current performance is. It might make sense to start a new campaign and see how it performs. In either case I think it really only makes sense to build out a new campaign if you are going to make a significant change to your approach as far as keyword targets, ads or match types go! I hope this helps you decide and please do follow up with some more information if you think it would be helpful for us to better understand your question!

Hi Margaret, I'm running shopping campaign for Google since long time and i found it if you violate any shopping campaign policy your campaign will suspended and if you do repeat violation your account/site will be banned for any kind of advertisement. So I would suggest you to not use watermark images, Google won't accept this and I don't think any one here will help/suggest you to violate the Google policy. Hope this helps. Thanks

Thank you, Patrick and Kate!

Depending on the business strategy, you may think to to create specific versions of the site targeting those countries. This solution, though, apart needing a more sophisticated use of international SEO techniques like the Hreflang mark up, also will need a stronger investment in term of single site's promotion (link building, digital PR, localized content marketing...). A better solution in the short term can be to use only one "English Global Site", which targets all those countries at once, but trying to earn trust, relevance and visibility also in the "foreign" markets thanks to campaigns targeting also sites/influencers in those countries. Once you start having a meaningful set of data, so to understand how your site is responding in the several countries you are targeting, and if you see that - for instance - Australia is offering good traffic and conversion metrics, then you can start thinking in creating a specific Australian version of your site.

Thank you Peter Nikolow For Help.. I will Check Out All,