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Honestly there is not much value to a visitor on those pages, if they are looking for a specific brand then they should land on the brand page.  I would Canonical all of those pages to the All Brands page and not worry about placing descriptions on each one.

Are those images also on pages or are they stand alone images that are not being otherwise used on your site?

That is your page's social metrics not your whole FB page.  It is pulling from FB and counting the times that your home page has been linked to from FB and the number of likes on those posts.

Can you put up an image of what Moz is showing (full screen, not just the graph) along with a link to your FB page, there are a couple of things that could be happening but without more information it is hard to say.

Are you referring to page likes or content likes?

You shouldn't need to look specifically for analysts with experience with publishers. In general any good analyst can comprehend the needs and uses of any digital activity from web to app as very few industries are so different that their web data acts different or needs specialists.

If you are using GTM you need to use different code on your page to track E-commerce then if you were hard coding the GA.  GTM is not just for checking your code, it is a complete system to allow for custom code (not just GA) to be placed based on rules into any page on your site.  It allows a marketer to be able to add advanced tracking and make changes much quicker they if they would have to either code it themselves or work with a developer to place code appropriately onto different interactions.

If you are instead talking about transactions for E-commerce you will need to follow Google's guide which does require additional code to be place.

https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/3002596?hl=en

You should be creating multiple rules and tags for your analytics.

First you should have the basic GA code placed on all pages.

You then need to create a rule to fire only on your landing page, set that to an event and test it.  Once you have tested that it is working (get Google Tag assist for Chrome and use the Debug mode to watch your tags fire) you should create a version and push the version live.  Once all of this is done you should see your conversion in GA in real time.

You will need to open the CSV with a spreadsheet program (upload it to Google Docs).  From there you can go to the referral column and it will tell you which page the error is linking from.  You will then need to edit the place on the page where the error is occurring or find if you have a widget on the page that is throwing the error.

Karin,

We had this same problem on our Wordpress site, it comes from improperly coded link on pages that had certain modules active (it was fixed by making the link absolute).  You can use Moz's crawl diagnostic tool to email yourself a CSV then look for the errors and go across to the referral column to find which page has the erroneous link, from there you can edit your content to fix it.

Look at your press releases how you look at content, if your press release is worth while and either ads value or answers a question then it can be useful as it will be picked up by relevant sites and used properly.  If you are just putting out press releases across sites which are spammy, then as Ryan said, they will not be helpful, or even have a negative effect.

While it is odd that the code has the content multiple times for the responsive, Google is very good at "seeing" what is being displayed (which is why all of the old keyword stuffing tactics don't work) so from that standpoint you should be fine.

It is best practice to use nofollow tags and your robots.txt to keep search engines out of not only e-commerce pages, but also any areas that require a log in (such as a customer profile page or shopping history).  You want to do this so that they do not accidentally index pages that will redirect users who aren't logged in or create a weird/negative experience for them.

Rosemary,

Different domain name extension (.com, .biz, .tv) do not effect your site's ability to rank on Google.  While it is hard to find the official Google response (I heard it answered during a Q&A at a conference hosted by Google) many independent studies have also proved this, if you search for them you should be able to find them.

Here is the most concise answer to your question:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/r1CxMI8JgPM

Without seeing you analytics I can't do much more, but with what you are saying I think you should re-look at how your thank you page is performing, see if that page is getting 2 around double as many page views as sessions, or if there are a large number of page views with less than 1 second, or if you look at your thank you page, is the previous page nearly 50% of the traffic.  If your goal is set up correctly the only thing that could be causing this would be the page double loading in quick succession or having 2 copies of your GA code on the page.

If you can actually load the regular URL then you should canonical to it (it is best practice to canonical all of your pages to themselves), but if going to that page just redirects to the escaped fragment then you should update how your site build is set up so that you don't have the escaped fragment any more.

Increasing your load time by more than half will definitely have an effect on your rankings.

Instead of looking at traffic, why not look at conversions. There are ways of spoofing traffic that is no good, who cares if they lost 500 visits per day if none of those visits were buying their product or partaking in other conversion (email sign up, content interactions). I would look deeper into the traffic that is lost, see where it was coming from and what it was doing on the site to see if you lost useful traffic or not.

Just because you are ranking does not mean it is due to the links you bought, there are many factors that go into why your site will rank, not just links.  If those links are spammy you will want to have them removed, either by contacting the sites (first thing) or if that does not work using Google's disavow tool.

You should keep up your content development and gaining links by providing quality moving forward.  If you focus on having content worth linking to, you will find that links come naturally and people are more prone to come to your site as they see the value of the content you are providing.

Sandra,  be very careful with the statement you just made. One of the most dangerous things you can start doing is putting yourself in as a stand in for your customers.  Google has seen correlation between search relevance and clean URLs, and when looking at web pages a clean url reinforces a persons want to click on it (page trustworthiness), while a large alpha-numeric string looks worse and is viewed as less trustworthy by the average person.