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Hey There, Your question is a great one, but unfortunately, the answer is likely known only to a few engineers at Google. Google's choice to vary from 10 packs to 7 Packs to 3 Packs and now Snack Packs for various industries over the years has long been a matter of speculation. There have even been mind-boggling times when only a one-box would show (and usually a spammy one at that) for queries for which there was plenty more data. Why is this? Some suggest it has to do with the competitiveness of a query in a given industry or geography. Others have suggested at times that Google was making a conscious choice to reduce the local footprint in the SERPs. What has been standard through all this is fluctuation. Google is constantly testing what they feel delivers the most value to users and makes most sense for Google. There is no known magic number for how Google determines which type of pack treatment a query deserves, including whether it deserves any type of pack at all. 3 Packs are tough. Giving an entire city/industry only 3 spots can feel kind of miserly and frustrating for everyone who isn't numbers 1-3. It means having to work harder, longer and with more creativity if you want to be among the chosen few. My personal view of this is that all pack results must be viewed as possibly transitory and as a test by Google, because they can change overnight, both in terms of the pack number and in the order of rank. One thing to remember here - don't forget to educate clients regarding the user-as-centroid phenomenon. There can be some hope in this, knowing that a client's customers are likely seeing different local pack results based on their physical location, again, both in terms of pack number and order of rank. I've trained people just one city away from me and have personally experienced how totally different their SERPs can be from mine for identical queries. Hyperlocal optimization and long-tail optimization may both be important considerations here. Sorry not to have an authoritative answer to your question, but I hope these thoughts help form a good mindset for you to share with clients.

Sir, I made a website www.   astrologersktantrik   .com with all keywords but my website does not index on any new page like I say my friend website

Just got my weekly MOZ report and see a huge drop in Google SERP for a ton of my keywords. I see similar drops for the competitors I am tracking as well though. I don't know if this is a MOZ reporting issue or if there was that big of a shakeup in the keyword rankings across the board. I have noticed bigger changes in keyword impressions/position in Google Webmaster Tools this week, so maybe the 4.2 update is the cause. I am in the real estate industry by the way.

Thank you so much, Anders, I am getting the client to change this immediately. Brilliant answer!

I think the high ranking posts on pinterest might have something to do with the likes they get from social media, for example this one ranks first on google image search for highly searched term "24k gold iphone" but I can't see why, can it have something to do with it's high resolution? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/469429961132145600/

Hi J, Did you see Miriam's response to both of your questions? Just checking... Christy

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You can set up Canonical tags in your template. Usually the default is to canonical the page's URL, but if you create the canonical tag to the main page, you should be ok. It will help reduce duplicate content and tell google that you want them to pay attention to the content and structure of your main page. I would also set parameters in GWT, this will help reduce errors, like 404 errors if product options change in the future. When you are using dynamic URL structure like this, it also helps Google understand and read them better. I would implement both of these changes. Depending on what platform you are in, you should be able to export the URLs to easily import the canonical tags.

You are looking at links from the wrong way now. Have a read of this article in MOZ as it is a great starter resource. -Andy

Moosa thank you for linking to me about this stuff!

Thanks.  I had assumed the same but then I read these blog posts that seems to contradict this: http://brianjackson.io/how-to-migrate-from-http-to-https-complete-tutorial/#step19 https://www.mariehaynes.com/switching-https-happens-disavow/

Thanks for the advice - I'll get to work on this

This is very helpful I appreciate it.

You could use "Duplicate post" plugin to clone your posts and then schedule those cloned posts.

Hey, So the US v UK example you've cited isn't the same thing. A .com is a generic TLD, not a country-specific TLD - by this I mean '.com' doesn't automatically indicate a US site. Getting a .co.uk site to rank well in the US will be a challenge as Google will automatically consider the site to be UK targeted. Take a look at this SERP: https://www.google.fr/#q=acheter+dvd That's a search on google.fr for 'acheter dvd' (buy dvd). You'll notice the top 3 results are French sites, but they're hosted on .com domains. You'll see that there are a bunch of sites hosted on .fr domains ranking on the first page too. NB I'm not saying that those sites on the .com are ranking better because of the generic TLD - I'm merely highlighting it because I think it shows that it's perfectly possible to rank well with a generic rather than country-targeted TLD