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Hey Alick300, Optimizing QS can be a bit of a hassle, but is definitely something that is solvable, and while Roman gave some good tips, I'm going to break down the scoring to hopefully help you get to the bottom of this issue. While you said there were scores of 8 with all above average, I urge you to double check & screenshot if that is the case. Based on the way QS is calculated (see below), this cannot be the case. QS calculations in AdWords are, as of the time of writing this, 1 + (Landing Page Experience Value) + (Ad Relevance Value) + (Expected CTR Value). I have added a table below that breaks down the "Value" for each of these 3 facets. Landing Page Experience Above Average - 3.5 Average - 1.75 Below Average - 0 Ad Relevance Above Average - 2 Average - 1 Below Average - 0 Expected Click-Through-Rate Above Average - 3.5 Average - 1.75 Below Average - 0 So you can see that your score could be average on just CTR or Landing Page Experience and you would get an 8.25 (1+1.75+2+3.5 = 8.25). Google AdWords doesn't show decimals so you would see this value as a rounded 8 in the interface. If you can re-check the QS values & paste that information here I'd be more than happy to help you further improve the QSs of those keywords! Hope this helps! Trenton

Hi Alick! Did Lynn answer your question, or would you like more help?

I am assuming they have hardcoded it themselves into their site using the same idea as the plugin does. When you said you wanted to copy it, that plugin I linked is probably the best way unless you get a developer to hard-code it for you like SEJ appears to have.

Alick It wouldn't surprise me if Google already discounts the major coupon sites in their algorithm for this very reason.  It doesn't want to reward link building like this (if some were inclined to do it this way), while equally it wouldn't want to penalise legitimate sites that use them. I think you'd be fine.

Favorites linked to your profile would be pretty sweet although I use Evernote for this at the moment. As far as subscribing, push the "email updates" button on any thread and you will be subscribed to it. You don't have to reply to use email updates so you can easily follow any questions or discussions you want using this feature. Hope that helps!

It was kind of humorous, at first. It's now showing as returning organic traffic. Direct link to screencap from the original post: 1WnZK0p.png

I had a problem with hidden content on a review plugin I was using (they have since changed it) due to tabs.  I can confirm that none of the reviews were indexed that were behind hidden tabs. So, no I would definitely not hide text now that Google doesn't see it.  If you want to test what Google will see and take into account, use the Google Render tool in Webmaster tools.

Do you have a Knowledge Base or FAQ section on your site? I would add content like this in one of those places. If you don't have something like this built in, I would recommend using the category pages. This kind of content is great for user experience. My only hesitation would be that more likely than not, most of the content would be below the fold, and it might not get as much view as it would if it had its own page on your site. Can you split content on your category pages? Maybe show one paragraph above the products and the rest below. Or, if you can add JS to the page, use a script to hide a portion of the content behind a read more button. Ideally, content like this should really have a page all its own. If you can manipulate how content is displayed on the category pages, you should be able to make it work there as well.

Thanks - i'll give them a call first thing Monday!

Without seeing you analytics I can't do much more, but with what you are saying I think you should re-look at how your thank you page is performing, see if that page is getting 2 around double as many page views as sessions, or if there are a large number of page views with less than 1 second, or if you look at your thank you page, is the previous page nearly 50% of the traffic.  If your goal is set up correctly the only thing that could be causing this would be the page double loading in quick succession or having 2 copies of your GA code on the page.

I believe that our search is already looking at the product titles and descriptions. The issue is that many of our products have similar names. i.e. if a customer searches for whiteboards it triggers any product with the word board in its description. The other issue is picking up similar phrases/ typos. I think Google Customer Search is the way to go.

What Tim said. And be sure to add it again on Webmaster tools

My best guess is that you either good hacked and your site has something in the code or google got title from a web directory, social site ... Just add  in the head section. Hope this helps

I did this on my wordpress site.  Here are my instructions: https://moz.com/community/q/switched-from-wix-to-wordpress-dreaded-hashtag-url

Per Google from WebMaster Tools: "Google treats some ccTLDs (such as .tv, .me, etc.) as gTLDs, as we've found that users and webmasters frequently see these more generic than country-targeted. Here is a list of those ccTLDs (note that this list may change over time)." Within the list is .co. So, Google treats .co as a gTLD. Eyepaq makes a good point re the UX issues and .com with same domain.

Thanks very much Keri

To expand on #2, people are more likely to share and link to content that is informative, amusing, and interesting. If your website is, say, an e-commerce website for plungers, it may be difficult to have informative, amusing, interesting content on the main part of your website. A blog is a great place for "linkbait," content that is created to attract attention and be shared. So a plunger shop's blog might have a post about the 8 most hilarious toilet explosions in history. As people link to this post, this builds the domain authority. Also, if you have links to your homepage, category pages, and even product pages in the post, pagerank will trickle there, too.

First search engines index your website  and then shows the cache. Cache is actually a snapshot of the page which search engines have indexed. They actually want to show you the copy which they've in their index, so that you can verify and if found any problem then can correct it.

As eyepaq says - it's for holding executable "program" files. search engiens don't need access so it gets blocked. If it's empty you can even remove it.

I don't see why not. In my opinion, getting links from the same C blocks can't hurt you. Sure, it won't provide as much SEO benefit as a bunch of links from different C Class IPs, but I feel that it would still be beneficial. Just be careful with blog networks - as you will have read, a number of these networks were penalized by the recent algorithm updates. I would just make sure I'm building my links to relevant sites and not specifically targeting blog networks for link building. I feel that when you're building links in such a way that you're having to take heed of the C-blocks of the links, then you're probably going about it in a "grey" manner. Focus on high quality links and you don't have to worry.