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Looks good Jonathan! You can make the sidebar more specific with the category if you want to really target your audience Add in some breadcrumbs/schema, shorten your meta description a bit as the result in google is cut off for me. Besides those, it looks great!

There are two things to do to fix this: When you upload a photo to a post, don't link it to the "attachment page' - this is a unique page just for the image, and is not needed. Here are your four options ---> http://screencast.com/t/KlUXTbes 'None' - makes the image not clickable Media file - links to the image file itself, which is good if you want users to see the image bigger Custom URL - you can link the image to anything you want, like an external link Attachment Page - is the one you want to avoid If you use the Yoast SEO plugin Go to Advanced -> Permalinks Check off "redirect attachment URLs to parent page' - this will redirect any images on their own URLs back to the page or post.

I'm with Alan on the server side, 1 second is not really good for just doing a request for some links.

Thanks Thomas for your clear instructions, this definately helped alot! A question - with regards to the **Taxonomies **I checked all that you referred to, however I seem to have an extra one for ad groups? Under XML sitemaps - I see tags and categories under this section do should I un-check this area also?

Hi, First of all there is no perfect way to show multiple search result for 3-4 times.  Google will show multiple search results from same website when Google find that results are useful & doesn't affect diversity too much. You can achieve what you have mentioned in your question, one is from local result and other one is from organic result. I am sharing a video of Matt cutts in which he explained in which circumstances Google shows multiple listing from same website 1> How does Google decide when to display multiple results from the same website? @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGpEdyIcZcU#t=45 As René Hansen suggested you can do it in three ways 1>Local listing 2> Organic listing 3>Paid listing Hope that helps you. Thanks

so my guess is it is still coming from the referral spam because once Google or Moz any crawler that a tool that can assimilate keywords with inbound links anchor text and context it is normally a sign of referral spam. Hopefully we're not into a new era of something new. Try blocking everything via analytics and a WAF  I recommend  Incapsula,  Distill Networks & Sucuri WAF Sucuri is awesome And only $9 a Month https://sucuri.net/website-firewall/ I Hope this helps, Tom

Thank you, Michael. Great support as always!

I can't replicate it, but I wouldn't assume it's a glitch. Google is taking a lot more liberties with titles and snippets lately, and that's going to continue. It looks like they're going to remove display URLs (or rewrite them to paths) on mobile, and that may go to desktop, too. In some cases, this can be a sign that Google thinks the title tag is either (a) a poor match to the query, or (b) too long or too spammy. If you're seeing title tags being rewritten frequently, you may want to revisit them in the context of that query. You can't 100% stop Google from rewriting, but there are ways not to encourage it.

First of all David, I would wait until the next refresh before making any decision on what could / couldn't have caused this. The MOZ tracker might have just caught the SERP in the middle of a bit of a Google dance, so it may return to where it was originally. If not, then we can look at other alternatives - it certainly doesn't sound like changing the page title as you suggest, could do this. Cheers, Andy

Hi Michael No problem! Glad to hear everything worked out - if you need anything else feel free to let me know! Take care!

I agree with Patrick and dirk, you making trouble for yourself. Decide what domain you want and 301 redirect to it. Use the logic, if not prefereddomain, then perfereddomain, rather then trying to detect evey domain.

Great, I put the code, see my source code. Let's see if this warning out now Thanks Tom Roberts

Hi Thomas I would try it with a few products to see the effect in analytics and search rankings. Keep track and records (consider version control) of where your backend is right now, so if you have to revert, you can quickly. There are some things you need to consider when changing URLs, especially on a grand scale: Make sure you pay attention to eCommerce optimization Here is a great resource from KISSmetrics Create a strong URL map Here is a great URL Mapping resource from Google Canonicalize your URLs Use a canonical tag on these new and old URLs to reflect the new URL as what you wish to rank You can learn more here Update your sitemap.xml Update your sitemap xml and also submit it to your WMT and Bing WMT Correct all of your internal links to reflect the new structure Consider using relative URLs If you want, find your high quality backlinks using Moz or Majestic Reach out and ask them to reflect the new URL structure Consider https if you haven't already https is now a ranking factor - since you are collecting information from users, this is something you should consider If you do these redirects correctly, this shouldn't be a huge issues, as Google will pass 90-99% of link equity. Keep track of your rankings and traffic in Google Analytics and Moz. Watch carefully and be in touch with your web development/SEO lead (if you have one) throughout the entire process. Hope this helps a bit! Good luck!

Hi Dave I am willing to bet it's extremely likely, especially if Facebook takes notice that you are (or were) at the same event in the same location or if that event is trending amongst your peers. Also, if your connection posts about it or something closely related, the post will more than likely make it to your news feed because you care about that topic in Facebook's eyes. Keep in mind, if you engage with these people more during or since the event, you're more likely to see their posts. Here's more information from Facebook. I would take a look at Buffer's Inside the Facebook News Feed. It's continuously updated, has a great comments section, and is filled with a lot of factors and potential factors in their algorithms. Also, Single Grain has a great resource. Hope this helps! Have a good day!

I think I understand. It can definitely be tough to work out the right metrics to evaluate a site's search potential, or even the right metrics to report down the line. To be perfectly honest, I don't think you'll learn much from the numbers you're talking about. There are just so many variables—size of site, marketing strategy, product offering, and specific goals are only a few—that a formula like that can't be universally applicable. Plus, there's the simple fact that in a vacuum a click is pretty much worthless. Who's clicking? Why? Why do you _want _them to? Where are they landing? What did they search for? What are they looking for? This isn't quite so concrete, but start by thinking about what you want to get from your SEO work. Is it just more clicks? Is it more conversions? Is it greater brand visibility? Patrick gave a really, really good list of educational resources that might help you wrap your head around everything, but I'd actually recommend starting with the Beginner's Guide to SEO. For the sake of your question, you may want to focus on Chapter 10, Measuring and Tracking Success. That should give you a good sense of what constitutes "success" from an SEO perspective. I also recommend this checklist for a technical SEO audit, which will give you a much better idea of what kind of work you've got ahead of you. (If it looks kind of screwy, it's because of our recent blog redesign. Working on it!)

Hey again! I see now - thanks for clearing that up. Depending on your organic traffic to those /tag/widget-a pages and user engagement from search on those pages (which I highly doubt you have much), I would leave them as they are, but "noindex,follow" them. Reason being, those tags can help users if they are looking for something specific, rather than being redirected to the cornerstone page, and having to look through the articles listed to find what they want. This can create a confusing user experience. Keep it easy for them. The reason you should "noindex,follow" them, they aren't useful to search engines but you still want the equity moving through the site to follow links on those pages so that equity can continue to move. Either way, I doubt search engines are giving weight to those tag pages as opposed to your cornerstone page. Hopefully this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions or comments!

Glad the reinstall got it working for you.   There's always the API route too for more custom needs. I'm a long time user as well but can get why they alter tools to display more of their toolset. It's likely a tested value-add for many and newer subscribers. Cheers!

Hi Adam Sorry for the confusion - what I was getting at is the reason your competitor may be appearing for a generic keyword is because (if they are local to you) they have shown Google that they are associated with a certain keyword and are located by the searcher. For instance, when I search a generic term like "coffee" in my search, I get 5 businesses that pop up around me, or within a close proximity of me, in Chicago. Same when I search "mechanic", "wine", and "ice skating". Depending on what you are searching, I was saying that local search optimization can have a heavy hand in what appears in the SERPs for your search. Now, beyond that, Google also takes into consideration branding. Even then, elements of what I was speaking of above still stand. Here are a couple of references: Brands, Google Plus and the Knowledge Graph: A Love Triangle (Moz) Understanding the Knowledge Graph and Optimizing it for Your Brand (Kahena) What I am getting at here, is your competitor may be a big enough brand that Google is associating them with that broad/generic search you are talking about. If I am not answering your question, again, I apologize and will step back - but I just think these elements above are worthy of your time and research, and will assist you in your chances of appearing as well. Take a look at your competitor though to see if they are taking the same steps - I am willing to bet they are! Hope this helps a bit more - good luck!

No worries Robert, Have a good one