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Hi Christian Kirkegaard

You should read this article:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.se/2010/09/unifying-content-under-multilingual.html

We have also experienced this, but after we started using the NOODP-meta tag the problem disappeared. 2 weeks after adding the content="noodp" name="robots" /> to all pages on our site SERP was updated.

Case is, that with inconsistency in you meta tags, Google SERP will show data from dmoz.org (updated:) or using information gathered from your own site, using a H1/H2 as title and ingress text as description.

No SE will recognize the meta description as duplicate content, as long as it's only a part of the meta description that is not unique from page to page. We are using the same aproach, adding the same line in the end of our meta description on most of our pages. You see this a lot with "free shipping", "web-discount" etc.

Hi CrazySeo

It is very important to pinpoint your business geographically.

50% of all searches on mobile devices are looking for local content/products.

Regards

Alsvik

Hi Kauelinden

You could use the "link rel=canonical" tag or the "link rel=subsection" tag to help SE identify the most important of the two. You should look into the LINK REL tag to identify which one serves you best.

Regards

Alsvik

I think i have already answered your question!

At least in terms of what we do ... but i dont know what "best practice" is.

And BlackRino, maybe it is just a language-thing, but both your replies seems rude. I'm trying to help you, not to annoy you

I'm sure, as long as the topic stays unanswered, that others will join the discussion and that you eventually will find a fulfilling answer. Good luck

Regards, Alsvik

First make sure nothing technically is causing the drop:

• check if your server-provider changed anything
• check your robots.txt
• check your website using google webmaster tools

And then do a search here on seomoz for "rank dropped"

Regards, Alsvik

I've noticed that google does include hits with "website" when you search for "web-site" - and Google Keyword tool give them same number of searches on the two spellings - so i wouldnt do anything extraordinary to "fix" this issue.

We have actually included a mispelled word in our keywords (i know: very low impact or none) but we see a great deal of customers spelling i.e. Gran Canaria as Grand Canaria og Gran Carina.

If i write "Travels for Gran Ca..." (in my native language) Google suggest "Travels for Gran Carina" ... So we included it in the keyword list. But i have no idea what best practice is!

Hi Diane

How are you doing on the exact same keywords on the Keyword Difficulty tool?

Searching on clean browser (from Denmark), you're #1 on google on the term:

gastric band hypnotherapy

Hi Robert

Yes, language is kind of a barrier in this case

And yes #2 are doing very well. They have a lot of content. And content is king. But we have our brand name and travelling is not just travelling (guides, quality, transfer, flights)  - so i think many users read their content, but order a package in other companies, like us. They are focused on the DIY-group of travellers.

Danish is actually such a small language that only 5 million people are fluent. Its amazing we can keep up the company running with a danish website ...

I just found another funny thing about this "rejser til gran canaria" keyword. On SeoMoz's ranking report i clearly show as "rank 1" on Google and "rank 2" on Bing and Yahoo. So SeoMoz actually read the data that is provided as we should be number 1 on that particular searchphrase ...

Under the help-section SeoMoz writes that the ranking shown on page can be different from what i experience using google due to personalization. But even when i'm logged out from google and have flushed my cache i end up #9 on google. SeoMoz suggest adding the "&pws=0" to the google url to prevent any personalization. But that doesn't help either. So something is not rigth!

Regards, Alsvik

Oh - and sorry for the name switch. My name is Alsvik. The old name reffered to the creator of the account.

Hi Robert

I see your point, but fact is that we lost 6 positions since august 2011. In january we noticed that google showed wrong title and description on the searchresultpage. It seemed that Google had created its own metadata for our page. We updated and 4-5 weeks later google was showing our title and description correctly again.

So i dont feel that our competitors "was speeding in the fast lane: I rather feel kinda like we lost it due to some crazy thing with google ...

But off course, our focus is not to have google fix it.

We will fix this by work, work and then some

www.spies.dk
Keyword (just one out of many) "rejser til gran canaria"

Thanks

Our webpage performs very bad on some keywords relating to one product.

At the SeoMoz-ranking page i can se we are number 9

• but we have the highest (higher than our competitors) rating in almost every category (at least 25 of 30) on the keyword difficulty report.

How do i find out why this is so, or if we have been penalized by google?On other search-engines (yahoo, bing etc) we are number one! And we have the highest pagerank among the competitors...

Thanks again. Will try to email seomoz

Actually i found the answer on the rankings-page help section. I use my competitors domainname without www.

Adding the prefix fixed it!

Hi Kane

That was my first thought too. But yes, the search engine country is correctly set.

And yes, my rankings are correctly shown ...

My competitors show as Not in the top 50 for all my keywords - even though they perform better or as good as me? It says Not in the top 50 even for those keywords where they perform much better than me? Does anyone experience this too? It's on the rank-page under (all) my campaigns and it doesn't matter which engine I choose to compare against ....