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Yoast has an ecommerce plugin so use that.

It has a bit more functions specifically for ecommerce sites.

To answer the 2 questions:

Should i noindex the media and also the custom post type archives for product and gift cards and if so why?

• noindex is fine

What about the taxonomies for ecommerce? What's best practise? Noindex?

- noindex is also fine

On the sites I've worked with using that setup, those worked out fine.

Im completely with Lesley here. That's exactly how I would do it. Give him a beer!

As you clearly want to put ads on these pages, then I would expect that youll be sending it  organic traffic.

Then just make the content a lot better. Why settle?

Hi Thomas,

I would just look at the redirect's link profile. If there's nothing shady with it's links, then there's really no problem.

Redirects are actually really awesome. The biggest ecom sites use it often.

Noindex tags and your author page (if you only have 1 author)

For categories, leave it alone, just add a bit of unique content there, much like how ecommerce sites do it.

What happens when you load the IP address? Does it load your website or something else?

Hi Tom,

Are they on the same server and linking to each other? If so, then just canonical them. Im also assuming from what you said that it's just a few pages so it shouldn't be any problem. That, or just edit the pages a wee bit.

If they are on different servers and practically can't be traced to be related to each other, then I wouldn't even worry about it. Just being practical.

Hi Darren,

Linda already made the best suggestions but as you really want to get those other links, please reach out to them and ask them to change the URL. That should solve it.

You don't have to overthink this. It's more of a personal preference.

Stick with keeping it basic (Kay's suggestion of 3 is good) and make sure they work inside webmaster tools.

Hi,

If you have already checked those (i would assume you have already checked everything, from internal linking, navigation, speed, structure, codes etc) then it might just be a temporary shuffle. It's also possible that those that are linking to you might have been affected negatively hence weakening your position.

Im not sure what you mean about preference. If you mean that if your "geo targeted country" has an effect on improving your chances for terms like "SEO Services in India" then my answer is not so much. You'll just have an improved visibility in the local engines but geo keywords will still take the same amount of work. I've played with this for my site recently. My geo targeting doesnt really affect my global geo related keyword rankings.

Back then, it needed a major panda update to finally see some changes. Personally, I think this is still the safer bet.

As it is refreshing monthly now, I've noticed that it still is a bit tricky to figure out. I've had sites that recover after 3 refreshes. I've seen sites recover after a full year. For what's it worth, I've never experienced a recovery right on the next minor refresh, possibly because it still needs time to fully crawl and reindex the pages.

Hi William!

Yeah, I still use them, mainly to supplement the content on the site. I dont allow the tags to get indexed though. It's a tad spammy for the standards we have nowadays. I've seen/worked on fashion blogs that spam tags (innocently) with no penalties but I've seen great improvements in results after tweaking them and making it noindex (sacrificing impressions, based on the webmaster tools, but overall, great for actual ranking pages)

Hi John!

Webmaster tools is definitely the accurate one.

Resources:

This link pretty much sums it up https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2642366?hl=en

For more information about the results it returns: http://searchengineland.com/why-google-cant-count-results-properly-53559

They normally show inaccurate numbers when site: search is used, mainly to prevent people from further learning about how they index pages.

I would also look at the sitemap you submitted there and robots.txt just to be sure that they had no reason not to index your other pages.

Invest that in other SEO work instead. I would buy that if it's 60% cheaper and will always be on the homepage hehe

That's always a challenging scenario.

You need to find ways to drive traffic to the site so you can start with their social pages or 3rd party blogs/your own set of domains/local magazine/forum posts/etc and put content and links to those.

Oh, that's been a long time problem. I personally haven't seen much action even after reporting them over and over.

Simply a lot of spam on Maps. I certainly hope they improve the  overly simplified reporting system soon.

I'm not sure what you mean Olivier. Can you elaborate your point further? Are you talking about building a link network of websites?

It depends on the algorithm. Some algorithms are global, some are just for the US or other specific countries. Here in the Philippines, it used to take a year until we get some sort of change from an update. Now, they don't really announce the update. Sometimes we see it the day right after the release, sometimes, it's 3 months behind.

It's not a problem, just fix those as soon as you can. And yes, it does affect crawl rate from what I've seen.