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I cant really due to showing who my most important client is so cant risk chance an unethical seo may see comment & who my client is and try to steal the biz, although im confident that would never happen from a mozzer, i just cant risk it since my most important client

In GA im looking at Organci Sear Traffic then looking at Google specifically and traffic all reporting fine right up to date, GWT shows no clicks over same period and ever reducing impressions (manual searches also contradict the GWT data)

So surely this is a GWT data issue ?

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Dan

Ok thanks Monica,

but its definately looking like a discrepancy between GA & GWT since GA is reporting much higher visits than GWT, if site had been hit then GA would be reporting a drop in SE traffic too, which its not.

Also since there has been all this recent talk of GWT missing data then that seems to confirm that, although seems strange still getting some data when this recent talk of data loss is referring to halts in reported data on a certain day, which then seems to catch up (wheras im looking at up to date graphs just with much reduced search queries/impressions & clicks).

The site is not e-commerce and i have looked at Panguin (thanks for that great looking tool and from a v well respected agency), but in this particular case it just verifies the GA data, i have a problem with the GWT data not GA.

many thanks

dan

Hi

I'm seeing a significant drop in search queries being reported for a client in GWT starting on the 7th Feb. I have seen a few articles on SERound Table etc saying that many are reporting probs like delays etc with GWT updating its data, such as these ones:

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-webmaster-tools-data-stalled-19854.html

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-webmaster-tools-analytics-data-19870.html

However these seem to suggest the problem is simply a delay with displayed data being updated, in the case im looking at the data is up to date but showing an increasing decline.  When i look at Analytics data though the data is completely different.  For exmaple GWT says on the 21st Feb there were 23 impressions with zero clicks but Analytics says there were 6 clicks/sessions from organic search. I take it this means that there is a likely problem with GWT data and I shouldn't worry ?

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Dan

great thanks Chris

Thanks Alick !

RE:  If you're marking up your content for rich snippets, you can let us know

How do we let them know ?

Also how do i use this to see what triggers the snippet, i thought this was just for testing correct implementation: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/

many thanks

dan

Hi

Once you have added structured data to a web page, say adding 'product schema' to a product page how long can you reasonably expect before it take effects, ie. displays rich snippets ?

Also in the case of product schema what triggers the display of the rich snippet ? is it a branded keyword and product title search or just a product title search or can it result from a generic keyword search too ?

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Dan

ok thanks for sharing your experience, i appreciate your comments

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dan

ok great thanks for confirming that Martijn

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Dan

Hi Martijn

Its absolutely working globally by virtue of the papers subject 'digital nomadism': http://paper.li/danlawrence/1352573243

Now i want to put it on www.digital-nomad.info so on its own domain (since this is 7 years old/aged with relevant content)

However I understand it form other seo's/sources etc that .infos, like most other uncommen domain suffixes, are very hard to rank for on google, or rather .coms etc have a much easier job of achieving rankings quicker (all other things being equal of course)

Would appreciate your thoughts (and anyone else reading this who has any experience of .infos etc) ?

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Dan

Hi

I know general concensus is to stay away from the non established domain suffix types and concentrate on .coms .co.uk’s etc etc.

But i have an aged .info domain that has some content on it related to a online news paper i have on that subject (on the news paper providers domain sub-folder currently) which i want to focus more time on and put on its own dedicated domain. So i want to upload it to this aged .info domain.

However waste of time if .info domains are bad for seo etc

Does anyone have any experience of .info doing well in serps or should i totally scrap the idea and try find a new .com etc type domain ?

My .info has been live with related content for 7 years so hoping that should count for something

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Dan

ok thanks Oliver

does anybody else know the criteria via which its being offered and when they started offering it ?

Thanks Oliver yes that does make sense although I would imagine that they would offer CTA options for all page types, maybe just with different CTA types, so i'm thinking it may just be a random roll out.

Do you know how long these CTA's have been offered for or are they a brand new feature ?

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Dan

Hi

On one of my projects FB fan pages ive been given option to create a CTA button such as 'Shop' 'Contact Us' 'Watch Video' etc etc

However on another projects FB fan page i logged in to try and set up for too and not being given the option although has many thousands more fans than the page i had been offered it for !1

Does anyone know how new this option is and likely reason only being offered it for a low fan number page and not pages with high fan numbers ?

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Dan

cheers i think it has

thanks again for your help pointing me in right direction

Sorry Lynn but what is the 'windows' bit in control-windows-L since cant see on my keyboard, can it have a different icon/symbol etc?

Great stuff thanks Lynn !! Ill tell their dev to do that

many many thanks

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Dan

cool cheers Don

Many thanks Don

ill ask client but dont think so (doubt any links pointing to them) but due to varying kw rich meta titles and h1's think client may have implemented this for some seo reason (hes very seo savvy but bit old school) prob not aware needs more content on page beyond a pic & some meta & an h1.

On a side note do you think these could be dragging sites rankings down (there are 350 of them) ?

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Dan

Thanks Lyn

Yes it is wp i think

If i click on the image it loads page with image (another duplicate) in the series next

I'm not sure what the normal page is since can only find these via the cralw reports, they dont seem to be linked to in any site nav etc

Does that sound to you then like best solution is via Yoast redirects etc ?

On a side note do you think these could be dragging sites rankings down (there are 350 of them) ?

Cheers

Dan

Hi

I have a new client whose first MA crawl report is showing lots of duplicate content.

The main batch of these are all the HP url with an 'attachment' part at the end such as:

www.domain.com/?attachment_id=4176

As far as i can tell its some sort of slide show just showing a different image in the main frame of each page, with no other content. Each one does have a unique meta title & H1 though.

Whats the best thing to do here ?

1. Not a problem and leave as is

2. Use the paremeter handling tool in GWT

3. Canonicalise, referencing the HP

or other solution ?

Many Thanks

Dan