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The site in question is this http://www.stylemyroom.ie/

looking at the page source I saw this

Never heard of this before, does it actaully work?

From a link building perspective, is a link from a site that's completely flash any good?

Can google crawl flash sites at all, or it a waste of time trying to get a link from a flash site?

You see there is no text "Products 1-40 of 93", just "Displaying 1 to 40 (of 93 products)" so good must be able to understand that, and put it into its own format.

The "Products 1 - 40 of 93" does use up space so the meta description is shorter than normal, but to be honest I'm not too worried about it. I was asked to look into it, just to understand why its there.

We have e-commence site (zen-cart) and we use our category pages (which has  the list of the products) as landing pages.  In the Serp results our link is showing up like this

Our Page Title

www.link.com

Rich snip stuff

Products 1 - 40 of 93 - Meta Description text

I just wanted to know where its getting the "Products 1 - 40 of 93" from, and can it be removed (if we wanted to)?

On the landing page say "Displaying 1 to 40 (of 93 products)", But i looked in to the source and it does not say "Products 1 - 40 of 93" anywhere, so google must be coming up with that text.

I have noticed other zen-cart sites have the same text, and other e-commence sites have something similar like " 20+ Products"

As long as google credits your site as the original author of the content ie google crawls your site before it crawls the site that copied the content.  So yes it will penalize them.

Before you changed the file back did you see the last time it was modified? might give you a clue what happened.  As Alan said check other files have not been changed (malware/hacked)  again checking the modified dates gives you a clue ( files you know have not been touched having a recent modified date, all the files having the same modified date... etc)

So I'm guessing you had a 1-2% bounce rate? If so  that brings up another question.  If the code is in twice therefore bounces can't be record properly, then surely bounce rate would be 0% not 1%-2%.

The only thing I can think off is some users are bouncing before the page is fully loaded (eg header but not the footer).... just a thought

Yes same thing a happen to me with a site, tracking code was in twice, so bounce dropped to 1% 2%.

Back on topic, under 30% would be good/v.good I would say

Why not just check your self, by adding &pws=0 at the end of the search?

[quote]If we get it wrong, is there a penalty? Or this just simply up to us?[/quote]

Simply google will not use the rich snippets, don't think it will get penalised.

You can test here:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

If you works there it should work in the serps.

We finally got our schema done a few weeks ago, and with in a few days google was using them on our more popular pages.  I don't think schema/rich snippets, effects you rankings, just makes your link more attractive/clickable for the user.

Hi, We are an online furniture retailer in Ireland and have been going for about 4 years, there is about 1000 visitors onto the site everyday. We have been thinking of new ways to interact with the customer and build the sites online content and constantly working to improve rankings. Have been toying with the idea of a user/customer forum and was wondering what the general consensus was with that as an idea, I appreciate that there could be negative aspects for the brand and was wondering if anyone had experience of similar and how that was perceived by the user and in what way did people interact with the forum. I assume differently to how they would interact with an "independent" furniture forum. My hope would be that the forum would be used for discussing general home improvements, asking questions relating to the home for community feedback and assistance and other similar home related topics. All thoughts and feed back welcome. Cheers. Eunan.

The problem with that you have to do it page by page..... a bit time consuming if you have 3000+ products

in facebook insights, "like button" and then "popular pages" you can see what pages got liked over a time frame. But I can't get it to show any more than a 3 months time frame.

I'm sure there ,must be a better way....

don't mean to high-jack the question, but is setting up affiliates this way a good seo strategy? does google see this as a cheap way to get backlinks, or does it see it as a legit way as it must be a "good site" if so many people are affiliates of it?   Its and Idea i have to thinking of doing myself.

Btw i agree with Istvan, canonical and webmaster tools "ignore affiliate parameter" would be the way I would (will?) do it

Another way to look at it, people that have installed ad blocker would have never have clicked on an sponsored link anyway.

why put the blog and forum on sub domains?, have them as a sub folders on the main domain.  That way you not losing DA to the subdomain.

Also use the www.opensiteexplorer.org and Link Anchor Text, to see what keywords they are actually targeting

I just use the rack checker in the campaigns (which is updated weekly), personally I think checking daily is a bit pointless (but very tempting)

btw when i say use  "&pws=0"  i meant in you address bar eg:

www.google.co.uk/search?q=rankchecker&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a**&pws=0**

When checking searches yourself on google add to the end of the url  "&pws=0" (without the quotes) to cancel out you "Personal Word Search"

Personally I have found the tracker to be right 90% of the time and according to this article:

http://blog.greenlightsearch.com/greenlights_search_blog/2011/10/how-much-do-google-rankings-fluctuate-in-a-day.html

8% of ranks can fluctuate in a day.

And if anything the rank tracker would be a day behind, (remember it only checks once a week)

answer is in this link

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/2nd-november-index-update-our-broadest-index-yet-and-new-pada-scores-are-live