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We rank really well for a brand in Bing (#2 behind manufacturer, and it's a competitive name) but are in about 15th place in Google. Any suggestions on what could be hurting us in Google are welcome!

But if I can find out, how may times, it appears on our site, and compare that to a competitors that will help.

Thanks Clayton, yes exactly. A Word Count (and location) of one particular keyword. I don't believe I'm 'stuffing' on any one given page, but we seem to be being penalized on this one keyword so I'm wondering we're considered to be 'stuffing' across the domain. It's just a popular product line for us, so between categories, products, accessories etc. it appears a lot.

What is the best way to search across my entire sub domain for a keyword? Any good tools out there?

This is likely just a lag issue. I have found GWT's to be very, very slow at reflecting changes such as links that were there and are not anymore. There may have been a link there the last time that page was crawled and GWT just hasn't crawled since the link was removed.

Only us, and the other websites which are ranking well for the same brand are competitors with us across many other brands, product types etc. where we are very competitive against those sites, and are ranked higher on most of the other key words/phrases.

Overall our SEO efforts have worked well, slow and steady increases in rankings across the board for all products and categories, EXCEPT for one particular brand name. Key words and phrases for that brand consistently under perform all other key words and phrases. Strategies etc. are the same, and we have not received any notifications about 'manual action' but I'm convinced there is something affecting our ranking on that brand. This has been going on for approximately two years, prior to that we ranked very well for this brand.

What sorts of tests can I run to try and find the problem?

Does anyone have a good work around for using product images with water marks in the Google Merchant Center product listings?

One our shopping carts recently has it's listings 'suspended' due to image violations. The violation is the company logo, faintly water marked over each image to help prevent image theft.

Any suggestions? We really don't want to remove the watermarks as competitors will steal our images.

For several of our keywords we have two listings on page 1 of the SERP's, both pages on the same domain. It's the "top"
 level category and than sub category within that top level category. Ideally, we could condense and have just the one result, at a higher position in the SERP. I thought Google would eventually do this for us as I've seen in the past, but it's been a few years now and still hasn't happened. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your responses (regardless of names :)). The error message I get is  - Reciprocal not found -. The weird thing is that I only get that error message beside the URL I test. I.e. If I test
www.test.com/canada/

It will show the second link as www.test.com/usa/ as it should, but beside my /canada/ link it will show "Reciprocal not found".
But if I redo the same test, and enter www.test.com/usa/ it will show 'Reciprocal not found" beside the USA link, but not beside the Canada one.

So the Reciprocal not found error stays with the URL I'm actually entering.
Does this make sense?

I've been using the Google tool and going page by page, everything seems great. But I'd really like something that will crawl the entire subdomain and give me a report. Any suggestions?

We have a domain which was optimized for a specific keyword. It does very well for that keyword, but seems like it has in turn caused our primary domain to be penalized (back to page 3) for that same keyword (We think they've figured out the connection).

The optimized domain (only one page) has links on it to our primary domain, so I don't want to delete it as that's where our traffic currently comes from. But if I deleted it and 301'ed it to the primary domain is there a downside?

Alternatively I could disavow it, but if the search engines know it's the same owner will they hold that against all domains?

Or, alternatively again. Should I turn it into a more substantial website? Which could in turn remove it's "spamminess".

Any suggestions are welcomed!

There is a website that OSE has identified with a spam score of 5, it back links to me with a very specific key word. How important is it to have them remove those links?

Also, how important is the "historical" link profile? When I check my current link profile, it's still not great. But not nearly as bad the historical profile shows (I don't think). Thanks again!

Doh. We still rank well with most of our keywords, I'm wondering if we're on borrowed time then. Do you think we would be better off removing any incoming links from domains within our "link network"?

I've come to the conclusion Google is definitely penalizing me for the keword "sensaphone" and I cannot figure out why. I've checked back links etc. and I don't see anything that would raise a flag. We rate very well in Bing etc. for the same keyword, but in Google SERP's will be on the 3rd or later page. Our domain is - www.absoluteautomation.com - any ideas?

Awesome, thanks Ryan. How would I add "private, max-age=600" as code? Is there I can line I can put in the tags to show every image on that page should have that cache rule?

I've been getting mixed reviews on this and I'm trying to figure out whether this is something I should be concerned with. We have a higher than recommended amount of code, relative to "content" but not by a crazy amount.

Thanks!

Thanks Ryan,

They are URL's that we would like to have indexed, so any visitor could find them. They don't change often, but if a SKU for example changes, the cart automatically changes the URL to match the new SKU, but does not generate a 301. I'll look into this, thanks for the tip.