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I can't say for sure, but I would guess that Google is at this point familiar enough with LinkedIn to be able to pull information without much markup. Plus, there are even ways individuals can pull information from LinkedIn. Check out Rapportive for GMail; it's pretty useful! As Martijn said, it's also entirely possible that Google and LinkedIn work together in some capacity.

I will be blunt.  It is a very bland site. It looks like hard work, as soon as see the Home page.I would struggle to make another click. There is no CTA.  So if online sales are the business a big FREE SHIPPING banner etc. some CTA is needed. If you read the below, you would keep looking for products.. somewhere else. (this is the info you have under your product) "Products are becoming increasingly complex, but as technology accelerates, the marketable window of those products continues to shrink. Producers must respond by minimizing inventory and manufacturing in ways that control costs. Scalability is crucial; companies need to increase or decrease production quickly, while ensuring repeatable builds over time and distance. In a myriad of ways, manufacturing must become more responsive to the marketplace." Overall the font is too small. The page looks cluttered. Needs to be made to look simple and easy.  Review 4-5 sites you like shopping from - and then start writing down what improvements you would like made to your site. Hopefully not to overbearing. All the best.

Hi, Google says "Server Location Mostly Irrelevant For SEO". I'm quoting Google's John Mueller in response to the question of SEO and server location: "For search, specifically for geotargeting, the server's location plays a very small role, in many cases it's irrelevant. If you use a ccTLD or a gTLD together with Webmaster Tools, then we'll mainly use the geotargeting from there, regardless of where your server is located. You definitely don't need to host your website in any specific geographic location -- use what works best for you, and give us that information via a ccTLD or Webmaster Tools." Q: Is the server location important for geotargeting? If you can use one of the other means to set geotargeting (ccTLD or Webmaster Tools’ geotargeting tool), you don’t need worry about the server’s location. We do, however, recommend making sure that your website is hosted in a way that will give your users fast access to it (which is often done by choosing hosting near your users). _Original thread @ https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/k6po9mnpI8c/discussion_ Hope this helps. Thanks

Thanks fot the answers. Beacause it's a linkpage i get the spamscore from: Thin Content A subset of pages within this subdomain have little content. Large Number of External Links A subset of pages within this subdomain has a large number of external links. Anchor Text Heavy Page There's a high ratio of anchor text compared to content text. External Links in Navigation There's a large number of external links within sidebars and footers. No Contact Info None of the pages crawled contain an email address or links to a social profile. So i was guessing the only way to get it a little bit lower is to add some no-follows.

Well, you are on the right path with thinking on how to reduce the amount of unneeded pages. Here is how I would approach it. Check the query volume levels on those specific queries "Map to XXX" Check the search volume on those pages. See if you can detect a pattern that there is search volume to justify those searches, do they result in significant traffic to those pages.  Then try and determine, what is the content on all those separate pages and is it any good?  Are they making extra pages to make extra pages?  Sure, in theory you could do a page per query, but I would bet if they have a ton of hotel, all the info on those pages is a bunch of boilerplate crap copied from somewhere else.  Even if the search volume was there, do they have a good enough page with good content to rank for it? Now that we have hummingbird type algos in Google, it reduces the need to get so specific for matching on queries on a page by page basis.  Build a single, awesome, page that is really helpful to users and has original content, that is how you win for the big queries and then fill in for the rest. You can then use the title, description and H1, H2 headings to show the important information. Remember that the rel=canonical will help Google understand what your main page is and what your secondary/duplicate pages are in this specific case, but I am not sure that Google would see it as the consolidated awesome single page. Rel=canonical is more for showing how the parts are just parts of a whole page that is already there, it is more to help clean up duplicate content http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html As I read your post originally, this seemed to be more of the issue.  This was why I was encouraging you to take the content in the tab (that did not seem substantial) and put it on the main page and use the canonical or if the content was junk then it did not matter as much. Hope that makes sense.

I'm by no means an authority on this topic, but I'd definitely use .htaccess to place those redirects, myself. It won't matter that the original filenames no longer exist. That's certainly what I've done as an SEO in the past.

Thanks  Rebecca, frustrating though as our competitor is ranking top for 'web development' local searches and having run OSE on their site the only reason is by adding anchor links to sites they've developed.  This is generating them dozens of new enquiries pcm compared to our zero!

One quick option would be to use Google Hangouts On Air and simply use a static image for the video, with live streaming audio. Otherwise, mixlr.com and awdio.com are two other options for live streaming audio. Blogtalkradio.com is another option that appears to allow incoming calls? Soundcloud is good for hosting but doesn't do live I don't think. The soundcloud embed widget is a great choice for embedding shows on the CMS of your choice, such as Wordpress. Here's an example at http://www.contentharmony.com/blog/content-marketing-interview-with-technologyadvice/. Hope those help - please report back with what you find since I'm guessing others will come across this question as well!

Sure thing! I hope it helps.

Hi Dana, 1. We did not notice anything directly. The product pages shot up in ranking and the blog gradually faded. our traffic dropped by more than half and continues downward. So in that regard we did not notice any overall drop. 2- no. should we and why? 3- no, we are not that advanced to be honest. I occasionally check crawl frequency etc on webmaster tools. 4- we installed a new script to track the "new blog" seperately. 5- analytics and moz. the subfolder is showing less in SERPs than the subdomain before and the decrease is a far more than the increase in SERP for the store domain. So the blog lost traffic and the pages of the ecommerce store ranked better, as intended, but we did not gain as much as we lost.

Hey Sarwan, A bounce rate can be defined as a percentage of sessions/(visits) where only one interaction occurs. It's actually measured by a first arrival of a visitor, and if there isn’t a second interaction within next 30 minutes – it counts as “a Bounce”." So, in this way, if you're viewing a page, and leaves your browser idle or left that page open for longer than 30 mins, it will register as a bounce. And, if you continues to navigate after this delay, a new session will occur. Same applies, if you keep open the tab for a whole day. See the attitude image for more understanding. Hope this clear your confusion! Umar bounce-rate-lrg.png

I would absolutely delete them. Take note of the products that have any external links or organic traffic and consider redirecting them.

Hi Sarwan - if you're not seeing those in Google's index, it suggest they can't crawl/index that content. You can test it out via Fetch as Google, which will show you what's Google's seeing. With video content, I might suggest using a text transcript, like Moz does on our Whiteboard Friday.

I'm having the same issue. The download pdf tool looks like it is working, but I only get viewer.html file that is blank.

I like SEMRush. They give a lot of data about both organic and paid search.

Thanks Umar! I guess the issue was with the canonical tag on the page, which was wrongly linked to the cached page you mentioned about. I have corrected it now. Let me wait for a day to check if the page is getting indexed. Thanks again for taking time to look at the issue! Regards Ramesh

Hey Max, Yes, it's possible. URL Profiler can do this for you. Check out the guide here: http://urlprofiler.com/blog/google-index-checker/ Hope this helps! Umar

I visited your site and saw how the local "Irish address" has been removed. Did you see changes? On the other hand, remember that a migration (especially from http to https) always has a period when traffic goes down. Finally, I suggest you to consider others things that maybe are pushing Google improving your IE traffic and devaluate your USA/UK one: backlinks. Is your link profile mostly composed by backlink from Irish websites? If it is so, that an extremely strong geotargeting signal, and you should have to start earning links and brand awareness also in USA and UK.