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I'd start by taking a look at your link profile. I did a quick check with Moz and Majestic SEO and noticed a couple of things:

1. You have very few incoming links (0 recorded on Moz, 84 on Majestic).
2. None of the Majestic inventoried links have any citation or trust flow, meaning they're considered very low quality.
3. The majority of the Majestic inventoried links are tagged as having been deleted.

Another quick note (but this wouldn't prevent you from being indexed) is your tag pages are indexed. I'd change those to noindex to minimize duplicate content.

The canonical might be being added by your theme.

Check out this post (http://www.featheredowl.com/wordpress-duplicate-canonical-link-element/). Read the comments. The post is from 2010 but don’t let that deter you. It could very well be the solution to your problem.

I don't recommend it. It hurts visibility and engagement. Facebook, like Google, penalizes pages that are trying to game the system. http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/fake-facebook-fans/

John,

Not long ago, you should have fully expected to lose up to 15% of a page's SEO equity with a 301 redirect. That changed in February of this year when Google's John Mueller announced that no page rank is lost with 301 or 302 redirects.

Moz's own Cyrus Shepard wrote a What You Need To Know Post after that announcement. I think if you read it, you'll be well equipped to weigh your options and decide on the best path forward for this particular situation.

It's a known bug at Google Dan. It's been reported in the webmaster central help forum and Google's John Mueller has said they're working on it.

Learn more here.

Headlines are you first opportunity to catch someone's eye. There are some great headline testing tools out there, but they're not a whole lot of help unless you manage to attract enough audience to get a meaningful sample size. Might not work for you.

I'd use tools like Buzzsumo to find the most popular headlines for my subject area and then try to adopt similar techniques. I'd look for syndication and guest posting opportunities on publications that you know your audience visits. Great headlines and syndicated / guest posts will get you exposure. Quality content will earn you the links.

Oh, and Grammarly is another good tool to help improve your writing. I like that it's a browser extension that integrates seamlessly with common writing tools like Wordpress and MS Office.

You maybe haven't gotten any responses yet because the page you reference - http://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/clients/removals/man-and-van-wandsworth - comes up as a blank page with the words "write error" in the upper left-hand corner. It's hard to diagnose without being able to see.

I get the same error if I try to view http://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/. Are those legitimate pages? I can't navigate to it via your site structure. I can get to http://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/removals/ but not http://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/**clients**/removals/.

I agree with Skye AP. There's no lasting value to paid links, just increased risk. I know it's cliche, but your best investment is in creating and publishing truly original, sought-after, high-quality content and then promoting the heck out of it on sites where your best prospects, customers, peers, and influencers like to hang out.

As Martin has said (and others in the helpful link he provided), it's perfectly normal for fluctuations to occur. Before you decide that it's a problem with your site or page, you should check to if your competition is experiencing similar fluctuations. Check out Mozcast too. There has been a lot of fluctuation in the SERPs lately.

Hi Edward,

It sounds like you're looking for content promotion ideas of which blogger outreach is one option. Try doing a Google search for "content promotion" to find ways to increase your content's visibility and exposure.

It might make sense to ask for an objective 2nd pair of eyes on your Wordpress configuration. It's sounding like it might be a setup problem. Do you have someone you can ask to do that?

Hi Eric.

Just to be clear, is the attribution a must have or will the canonical tag suffice? If it's necessary, is there specific wording to be used?

Donna

Great suggestions by Oleg.

Yoast wrote an article last fall that talks about some of the reasons a site might be slow getting indexed and how to get it indexed faster. They have some worthwhile suggestions.

Did you submit the new (https) version of your website to both google search console and google analytics? Is that what you're looking at? Was the https version of the site fully indexed before you noticed the noindex tags?

Have you confirmed every page on the site was converted to https and there aren't any remaining pages (images or pdfs, for example) that are still http and therefore not showing up in your reports?

Agree with the others, Yoast is a robust tool that offers you the most flexibility and configuration options.

Why are you asking? Are you having a specific problem or are you just surveying the group before deciding to move forward with a specific tool?

I, like Cocoonfxmedia, would like to think that given Google has to be aware that not everyone will be able to remedy their situation quickly, they'll go easy at first and ramp up penalties over time.

That said, I don't think anyone outside of Google knows the answer to your question. You're smart to push. I recommend you baseline traffic, conversions and rankings now, before the change, so you can use that push even harder should a negative impact be felt and you need evidence to support your request for approval.

Buzzsumo is another good source of trending information. It's a hubspot product that allows you to search for what's being shared (popular) by domain or key phrase. There are free and paid versions of the tool. The free one is probably good enough for your purposes.

This post from Search Engine Journal (https://www.searchenginejournal.com/definitive-list-reasons-google-isnt-indexing-site/118245/) is helpful for troubleshooting.

This Moz post (https://moz.com/blog/8-reasons-why-your-site-might-not-get-indexed) has some additional considerations. The 6th point the post author raises is one you should pay attention to given you're asking about a large e-commerce site. Point 6 says you might not have enough Pagerank, that "the number of pages Google crawls is roughly proportional to your pagerank".

As you probably know, Google has said they're not maintaining Pagerank anymore, but the essence of the issue raised is a solid one. Google does set a crawl budget for every website and large e-commerce sites often run into situations where they run out before the entire site is indexed. You should look at your site structure, robots tagging, and as Jason McMahon says, internal linking to make sure you are directing Google to the most important pages on your site first, and that all redundant content is canonicalized or noindexed.

I'd start with that.

I agree with DC1611 and would reiterate you shouldn't just stuff your keywords into both tags.

Google's penalized keyword stuffing for some time now and they are always emphasizing user experience. Remembering that alt tags are designed to help visitors who are visually impaired and given the space constraints of title tags, I'd err on the side of using language that succinctly and accurately describes the image.

Hi Stroke,

First check to make sure Google's has indexed the page. If it has, and you continue to see different results, it's because the search engines has decided to grab something else from the page and display it as the meta description. They do that sometimes.

The best thing you can do to minimize this type of occurance is populate your meta description with a clear and accurate description of your page content.

I'd just say publish " If something resonates with you, give it a thumbs-up. If a comment evokes a negative reaction, go ahead and thumb it down." where it's visible and influential. You want as many visitors as possible to see those guidelines and they won't if they're just published here.