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As long as you use valid HTML, use proper tags for titles and every section, and don't make the HTML size grow too much, it won't damage your rankings.

Hello.

Don't panic: people won't see those results. You probably saw it because you have Evernote Clipper in your PC. This is a function of the Web Clipper Chrome Extension preferences. You saw this format of SERP.

To avoid seeing these results on your Chrome view, uncheck the box next to "When enabled, searching the web on supported search engines will also be performed on your Evernote account."

Is it a 301 redirect? You won't rank that page as all the rank will flow to destination page.

As far as you also include the name="description" and its value in the "content" attribute, having an ID on a Meta Tag won't probably avoid it from being correctly read by Google althought it is not W3C compliant. According to HTML specification, the meta element cannot have that ID attribute: The only valid attributes for meta tags are:

• name = name [CS]
      This attribute identifies a property name. This specification does not list legal values for this attribute.
• content = cdata [CS]
      This attribute specifies a property's value. This specification does not list legal values for this attribute.
• scheme = cdata [CS]
      This attribute names a scheme to be used to interpret the property's value (see the section on profiles for details).
• http-equiv = name [CI]
      This attribute may be used in place of the name attribute. HTTP servers use this attribute to gather information for HTTP response message headers.

Also, you can include:
    lang (language information), dir (text direction)

Do you know why do you include that ID and how to remove it if it has no use?

Another cause which is specially common in display networks -not too much in adwords- is that some of the pages which are serving your ads are showing your site with popunder scripts. This allows the site to create the affiliation cookie without the user noticing it.

In your case, if it is based only in 17 visits can only be the natural reason: people are not interested in your content for that keyword and leave too soon, as Ryan says.

When managing a popular ecommerce, coupon pages are a natural source of traffic. Those pages make some linkbuilding for you, although you don't submit coupons to them.

If you have other type of links apart from the coupon sites, I would not give too much importance to this issue. Just check if some of those sites could be seen as spammy to ask for a link removal.

Maybe you could index your galleries, which show the small thumbnail so that it does not weight those 7mb you talk about, and link with the a href to the full image size.

Other option is to keep working as you do, and manually insert a title and a small description for each image page. This would definitely improve your SEO for those images, but obviously it is a manual work which I don't know if you will be able to do depending on the volume of images you process.

It is a technical issue with your ecommerce platform. Definitely it is not good to have that kind of different URLs.

Canonicals are helpful with pages where you cannot do anything but having two similar pages on your site, or when there are almost identical pages. But when dealing with such an important page on an Internet project like the product page on a ecommerce site, you should definitely take action and manage to have unique URLs for every product, not depending of the path the visitor follows to reach that page.

It will become difficult to measure conversion rates or any other KPI on Analytics, and also will become a problem in SEO, with so many different pages to link.

You just have to type link:http://www.yourdomain.com/whateverpageyouwanttocheck into Google's Search Box and you will get a list of pages which link to that page.

Hello.

Before starting from scratch, try to optimize Drupal. You have some simple things to do which speed Drupal amazingly:

• Go to Administer » Site configuration » Performance page, enable the option ""Aggregate and compress CSS files." and "Aggregate Javascript Files".
• On the same page, activate the cache: "Cache page for anonymous users" and "Cache blocks".

Try if it helps while you find the source of the problem.

Basically every text into your pages is the same, except some small numbers which in proportion represent a really small amount of text, and some meta tags.

You should make a mix between the standard template and some kind of database information for each neighbourhood. For example, inserting a small description of the area, or visitor comments. If you look for something more automatic than a description, maybe you could query some kind of webservice which could allow you to show the most important streets in the district: that would create some different text without manual work for every page.

The only way of avoiding that duplicate content is to in fact have different content :(.

Best option in my opinion is to combine "Fresh web explorer" from Moz and Google Alerts.

You can receive daily updates about any keyword.

Without looking too deep into the site, I see at hrefs.com you only have 10 referring domains, and only 7 of them are not "nofollow".You should focus on a linkbuilding strategy at first.

Also, minimize and join your .js files. You load way too much external files for a site like that.

Why do you block product pages? They are the most importante pages on an ecommerce site.

That kind of behaviour is really strange. Are you always searching from the same computer, and always logged off -or at least always in the same Google Account? Seems like you are getting some kind of customized experience based on your geolocalization, browsing history, Google Account or something like that.

For checking your ranks, always use an external tool like MOZ.

You should find an equilibrum here.

Best option is to have some powerful keywords on the link anchor, or in this case as the image ALT. Having these kind of external links is really valuable. But not over-optimize it and use the same text in every external site linking you, as normal user behaviour is to link using your brand.

I am checking your schemas with https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/ and it seems your product and review snippets are well implemented.

We implemented them two years ago on a quite powerful ecommerce site, and it only appears for branded keywords. Having the schema is a must for appearing, but not enough for Google to show them.

Luck and patience!

Removing them from sitemap will not make them disappear from Google Index. A sitemap is a tool which allows the spider to discover new pages, but one indexed they won't disappear from the index just for removing them.

If you don't want them to be indexed, you can remove then using Google Search Console, and going to "Optimization"/"Remove URLs". It is faster than including the noindex metatag.

If they contain just a link as in your example, I would remove them without any doubt.

Another question he launches is "When does the limit reset?" I have always have that doubt when reading the documentation. Is it monthly?

If you don't have access to .htacess, but you have access to your own code, you still can execute the redirection via PHP, with this code:

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: http://www.yournewwebsite.com/yournewdocumenturl"); ?>

I would try whatever possible to redirect individual pages and not the whole site to the root domain, not just for the visitors but also for transfering your rankings to the new URLs for each page.

Search engines are getting good in identifying common problems like this, but it is in fact a duplicate content issue. By the low cost of redirecting one of those options to the other, or implementing a canonical tag, I would not risk to be detected as duplicate.

Also, using always the same notation will benefit you to concentrate links to one page, as any incoming link will reach directly to the correct address. If you randomly use both versions of the URL and both return content, visitors will copy the link and you will end with links pointing to both of them, damaging your linkbuilding.

What option is best? It does not mind. Usually for users it is "cleaner" to see no trailing slash, as it is interpreted as visiting a document and not a folder. But any of them is perfect.