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A part from the valid hints that have been already mentioned by others, please note google is very picky when it comes to display microdata and it shows them or ignore them depending on the search query too. So for example if you search for "John Doe" it should show it, but if you expect to see that when searching for "Best Lawyer in Nevada", you are going to be disillusioned.

Thanks Ryan. I'd set up a filter for my own IP but it appears to have changed. I'll try this and see if it works. Cheers!

Hi Kris! Moz Local pushes to the 5 major US aggregators + 2 other important platforms. The complete list of our 7 partners is: Infogroup Localeze Best of the Web Superpages Factual Foursquare Acxiom As others have mentioned, Yelp is not currently one of our partners, so that would be a listing you'd want to manage manually. Moz Local provides a little bit of a different service than Yext, by updating the core data aggregators that the primary local search engines rely on for their baseline data. Please, let me know if I can answer any further questions for you!

I agree with Ryan - there is something fundamentally wrong with the way your page is build. I checked the speed of a productpage with Webpagetest.org - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150311_PM_15Z8/1/details/ - if you look at the number of items loaded, it doesn't correspond with what is shown on screen. I am not an expert in Javascript, but your HTML page is filled with it, and it seems to be loading much more files than you actually need. There are 412 image requests (!) for a total of 2105075 bytes, 21 HTML requests for 1593795 bytes, 18 javascript requests (326065 bytes) Your developer did something really wrong here, and you need to correct this asap. In my experience, it's not normal that you loose 90% of organic traffic. I did several migrations over the last couple of months, of very big sites with no loss of search traffic. Apart from this urgent problem, I would also block your shoppingcart and review links for indexing - they generate an enormous amount of 302 redirects Example urls: https://www.jmac.com/reviewhelpful.asp?ProductCode=HONEYWELL-ADEMCO-747F&ID=39994&yes=yes - http://www.jmac.com/ShoppingCart.asp?ProductCode=SILENT-KNIGHT-PS-DA - put a nofollow on these links or block them in robots.txt Hope this helps, Dirk

I think that they help more for conversions and click through rate personally. It could help with your brand recognition, which can have a positive effect on your SEO. I use them more for CTR than SEO. Which I guess the CTR is important to SEO as well. So in a round a bout way, call to actions can help your SEO.

Ektron CMS. Yah, will have to go with the noindex somehow.

I completely agree with Massimiliano. There's absolutely no reason why you should receive any kind of penalty for this.

The applicable bounce rate would be more along the lines of time spent on your site between Google Organic clicks, still you could see some benefit from more visits to the page in general so the adwords sourced traffic won't hurt. If applicable you could also run a campaign targeting SEO value as an outcome. See: http://moz.com/blog/advertisement-investments-organic-roi-whiteboard-friday.  Cheers!

It's a technique of guerilla and internet marketers. It's not a link to your website but rather just another way to rank in SERP's for a keyword. I've never heard of it being negative.

Step 1. - DON'T PANIC! Step 2. - Understand that Moz's DA & PA can take a little while to find that you've set a canonical and or 301. Further to this understand that Moz is attempting to give you an indicator to what is an authority (a good link etc.) this is not an absolute nor is it a garuntee of ranking. Step 3. - Relax, have some of your favorite beverage. Humor aside as long as you've implemented the 301 correctly the rest will take affect it can just take a little time for Roger bot to find your changes, rest assured I'm sure Google has found your changes and given the link juice the right treatment. On top of this links pointed to www. and none www. is still a perfectly natural portfolio. Short answer: If I build backlink to the non-www version, will it increase the PA of the www version since it's has a 301 redirect ? Yes, well technically it would increase DA for the none-www in a more exact way. If I build backlink to the non-www version, will it increase the PA of the www version since it's has a 301 redirect ? see above answer , id recommend you build links to the main version you are going to use (www.) But how can I increase my DA if I focus on building backlink to the www version of my website ? Build links to the www. and any none www. will be taken care of by the 301 So i would like to have some clarifications about how their domain authority and page authority system work. My PA of the www version is higher than my DA because almost all my link point to the www version and I do the 301 redirect. ? PA is base on the links going to that page DA is based on all the links going to that domain across all the pages. The reason you may have a higher DA - PA is that page is stronger value than the domain, try not to over think this! Hope that helps, and remember - DONT PANIC!

No it's not possible. Let's say you have http://foo.com/a and http://bar.com/b and both have the exact same content, google will choose one, index it, and forget about the other. Let's say you have 1000 pages on both foo.com and bar.com exactly the same 1000 pages, google will analyze each page one by one, and choose one version for the index, and forget about the other, depending on a variety of factors (like the domain itself and backlink profile) will pick some pages from foo.com and some from bar.com, but you will still have only 1000 pages in the index. How much of the content of each page you need to change to differentiate is unknown since no one knows the code of google algo. You can try with guess and test, you change something and you see what happen monitoring changes in the indexing of the edited pages.

Thanks Brendan for your reply.  Changing the link to the TrackTest homepage would be an obvious choice but is not possible in this special case due to some other reasons.

Your sitemap will already be doing that and you can get Google to index a page almost immediately by using the "fetch as Google" section in your Google Webmaster Tools. Probably not a direct answer to your question but have you thought about putting all those helpful links on your 404 page instead? Your site instantly goes from Zero to Hero in my eyes if it has a friendly 404 page

Thanks Ryan, it turns out that site along with others are using proxies to copy our content in a negative campaign. Will put into action what you said.

Sorry I missed this follow-up earlier. Within the site map you'll want to change the http://WWW to http://CDN for these image files. The www version of your site, and the cdn server are on two different IPs / server. You want images to be serving from the CDN one. For 2, if you do use 301 redirection I'd recommend scripting it so that the script inspects whether or not it's an image file and then applies the cdn change. A pro in your area that works with REgex and htaccess will be able to guide you through that. The username.net-dns.com thing... That's not your server is it? You can't apply redirects on servers outside of your control.  Cheers!

I find it! in the menu there is a display:none! Now i must understand how i can solve this problem, maybe using another menu module for prestashop.

Hi David Sorry to hear your metrics have not moved. Usually if you do not see a change in your DA, it means we haven't discovered new links from high authority sites. Just so you know, here's how we compile our index: We grab the most recent index. We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains). We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index). Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Other tools, such as Webmaster Tools, Ahrefs, and Majestic will alway show more link data as they target the quantity of links, while OSE focuses more on quality and Domain Authority. It’s best to use all the tools you can to obtain a full backlink profile. Keep in mind you do not have to have a paid subscription for us to crawl your links. We are crawling constantly and your subscription only unlocked more reporting options and access to see more data. You can monitor your DA without a subscription for free. What you can do is search the sites you are building your links on. Look at their domain authority and see if they are considered to be influential for your links. If you are not building new links and growing the amount of linking root domains, then you will not see any change of your DA. Compare your site with your competitors, look for the # of linking root domains, # of linking C blocks, and total links. Take a look at the DA of their linking root domains and see if you can build your links to those sites as well. The more, the better! For Moz Local. I was able to force the update to change the number. This has now been submitted. Hope this helps and let me know if you have any questions!

Hi Brendan, Thanks for the reply! We did see a significant drop in organic traffic around the time the update went live. We have lost traffic for generic phrases like "apartments in london" and "london apartments". We haven't got a manual penalty. Thanks so much for your help Laura