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Hi Bill, You are rightly worried about the change in category structure, the structure earlier looks better than new structure of category page URL (before it was website.com/product-category/product-sub-category will now be website.com/more generic category/product-category/new-subcategory/product-category ). The idea of right page URL structure should be to keep the length of URL in control and also give show the right directory structure to the search engines. It seems with the new structure you can get lengthy URLs and also repeat lot of keywords within the URL. Having said that, you should read these two articles for further help https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls https://moz.com/learn/seo/url I hope this helps, feel free to respond and ask further. Regards, Vijay

Thanks for taking the time and looking at this Russ, been pulling my hair out so any help is appreciated.

Hey BCutrer, Just wanted to make sure you'd seen a good solution to this and everything was deindexed properly? I haven't heard anyone mention the lack of a cached version as a sign of deindexation about to occur, but would be curious if you still think that was the case. I would sooner guess that noarchive was placed on those pages.

I don't see why that would have any negative effect whatsoever, but at the same time it shouldn't be very difficult to change the image source to the actual url instead of the server's ip address.

Thanks, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy and was missing something obvious.

I would be very surprised that the hidden text is actually working, and I would think that google is just ignoring it and other factors are making it rank. Something like font size = 0 or same colour as the background, would be so easily picked up by a bot/algorithm compared  to some complex things it can pickup on.

Facebook and Instagram both have filters of sorts that won't allow the visibility you'd like. Has to do with trust factors and the sheer volume of people posting. Idk how new or old your clients instagram is but that may make a difference. Also if you're not on top of what facebook has been trying to do it the world of cutting back on free impressions you should read up on it. Sorry for not having an article to post

Moz Analytics will likely have many of the features you're looking for, but unfortunately custom reporting is still a few months off. At the lower price points (non-enterprise) there's not a ton of good reporting options out there, and most folks I suspect do something similar to what you're doing now - Cut and Paste different reports together into something that hopefully looks semi-professional. Look for the new custom reports to launch this fall (fingers crossed)

Hey Baldea, I wasn't asking What black hat is, I was asking for specific urls that have onsite examples to show the class.

Hi Bill, My pleasure...and, yes, correlation is probably not causation in this scenario. Probably lots of other factors at play. I hope there will be more documentation and commentary on this topic soon. The slideshows are pretty neat. But, as you say, the price is somewhat hefty.

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