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I have had the same happen to two of our sites. Same language, but different country and Tld.

Google ignores the hreflang element. We even made sure to include the country in the page title and in the footer. Since the we use country specific .tld we have no option and shouldn't need to set specific market in webmaster tools.

I guess it is just the way google works when you have two sites with basically the same content.

In our case we werent penalized, it's just that google think our foreign site is more relevant.

Hi!

The link is in the source code. Here is more information from Google about canonical links.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

It just got posted...

Thanks Ally for your answer, will now block Baidu

Hello!

One of our websites receives a large amount of traffic from the Baidu crawler. We do not have any Chinese content or do any business with China since our market is Uk.

Is it a good idea to block the Baidu crawler in the robots.txt or could it have any adverse effects on SEO of our site?

What do you suggest?

Hi!

Basically Google treats urls with a "/" on the end as folder and without a "/" as a file. For sub-folders you should decide what format to use.

www.domain.com/blog OR www.domain.com/blog/

Then make a 301 redirect (best) or put a canonical link to preferred version.

For linking to your start page I would just go to without the "/", It doesn't really matter there imo.

More info from Google http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.se/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html

Have you tried to search for a term on one of those not listed pages? Perhaps they are just far back in the search result?

Did you try to submit the url with WMT to have it indexed faster?

Do you have any old urls you can do 301 redirects from to the new not listed pages?

Did you as Kevin suggested submit a sitemap?

Google blog search perhaps?

http://www.google.com/blogsearch

Hi Nikolaj!

If your page only been live for a month it is too early to expect to start ranking. Your domain need some authority, links, and get fully indexed. Sometimes google can be a bit slow in the beginning. Good links will for sure help you out, just don't buy them.

Perhaps a free photo shoot to people who blog about you

If your changes do affect the urls then make sure you have working 301 redirects ready so the old urls still work.

Looks like your content can be reached from different urls. like the uncategorized category.

Here is an excellent article how to set up Wordpress to avoid common seo traps

Hi,

I don't think it's because of the penguin you went from #1 to #5. From what I understand a penguin hit is much worse.

Could just be that Google doesn't give as much value to an exact match domain or it could be just natural fluctuations? I know our keywords move up and down a few places every week.

I would go with no index on the result page simply because those search pages can vary quite a bit depending on what people search for.

It wouldn't help you to create a new short url unless you redirect the old url to the new. Depending on the competition you can still rank good with a url that doesn't contain the keyword/phrase.

From a user experience it's of course much better with the keyword/phrase in the url. People see what your page is about just by studying the url.

Rule of thumb, the h1 heading  should describe the paragraph / content below it (in not more than one sentence). For the next headings you could use the h2 tag.

Write for the users. Of course you should pick the right words / phrases people use when they search.

Make the headings compelling encouraging the user to keep on reading

Hi!

In your case  you should do a redirect (301) of all non-www to the www-version of your site. You don't need canonicals for this. It is better to skip the non-www entirely (or other way around). Just decide what version to go with. Old link-juice will follow the redirect to the new page.

Use canonicals if you have a bunch of simular pages you would like to to merge into one. Like if you have two pages with basically the same content.

Check your site and what headers it puts out with this tool:  http://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php Response of non-www should be 301, very important!

Btw, a lot of canonicals are not bad if they are used wisely

Hello!

It can take a couple of weeks (if if you have a large site) and no you don't need to change anything else for google to pick up the new title.

A tip can be to use google webmaster tools

Health -> Fetch As Google

Then submit the urls to google and "submit to index"

You can manually submit up 500 urls to be indexed and they are usually added to index within 24 hrs.

With "overly dynamic pages" means the search engines might have a problem crawling them.

They will not hurt your seo unless they have poor content, duplicate content etc. So if I were you I wouldn't worry too much.

However if you don't want these pages crawled you can exclude them in your robots.txt file.

Also add a meta tag in the header of these pages to have them removed from the index.

http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

You should look into using the rel="alternate" hreflang="x" This way you can specify what country and language the page is created for.

Read about it here:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077

Good luck!

Hello Debi-Ann!

In my opinion I think your drop in the serp is because of links coming from link directories and spam blogs. These links don't count much (if any) after Google's Penguin update.

Yes it's possible Google uses the anchor text to spot unnatural link building.

For you getting some really good links from some authoritative sites might be really helpful.

I'm not a Google employee, just my guess.