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Mike, Everett,
thanks a lot. Will go ahead and noindex.

Our navigation path is easy to crawl.
So I add noindex, nofollow in meta or xrobots tag?

We have thousands of site search pages already in the google index, so I understand x rotobs or meta tag are preferred to using robots.txt right?

I read about some recommendations to noindex the URL of the site search.
Checked in analytics that site search URL generated about 4% of my total organic search traffic (<2% of sales).

My reasoning is that site search may generate duplicated content issues and may prevent the more relevant product or category pages from showing up instead.

Would you noindex this page or not?

Any thoughts?

Keri,
perfectly understand your concern.
in this case all domains are from an updated industry directory with a very specific niche of businesses.Our email is highly relevant to each of these businesses and we actually neither ask for a link nor plan to sell them anything.

We researched a list of about 1000 domains, which are all in one industry segment.

Any tool you can recommend to identify corresponding contact emails, based on domain whois or email on website or in contact page?

what is your experience with sending emails just to info@DOMAIN_NAME ?

thanks. On first sight could not find any other reason for disappearance in rankings, but will have a second look.

Relevance of aggregate review on category is not so black or white.
I believe that it adds some value to know aggregated reviews by brands for example, but other people may question this value.

Excellent advice. Will do as you suggest.
Thanks a lot Phil.

You mentioned category pages. It'is something giving me extreme headaches at the moment.
On one of my e-commerce sites I used aggregated review markup on the category pages and some months later they stopped ranking in google. Did you hear about any case where google penalized because of category page review markup? I am not sure whether this was the reason?

thanks Tim. 
started launch of new shortened optimized titles today for most important pages.

Takeshi, thanks.

How long would you wait and monitor ranking changes before to roll out sitewide after first test?

Not sure whether keeping changes to minimum will reduce risk (so mainly shortening without much other improvement/changes)?

Titles are all unique.

just tested it in rich snippet tool  and only the star ratings show up.

As video snippet also requires video sitemap, I am not sure whether rich snippet tool is actually able to preview video snippets.

Just noticed that google completely screws up our meta titles in the SERPs. Google decided to show titles which are not understandable to visitors and worst of all even shows titles in different  languages than the actual page. The words of the displayedf titles are nowhere on the page (actually they are parts of old title tags that we stopped using 6 months ago and that we used on different pages). Pages are crawled weekly.

All our meta titles are a bit longer than the 70 character limit, so I plan to rephrase and shorten them so that they are all max. 66 characters. Dynamically we choose different variations of title texts based on character length of keywords.

Having titles that fit into SERPs without cutting are supposed to have less probability to be changed by google.

I heard some people reporting loss of rankings after site-wide meta title changes. Especially since we changed title tags sitewide already about 6 months ago I am a bit concerned.

How would you  proceed? Just do the site-wide change all at once?

We are using on our product pages review schema markup which showed up well in google SERP. Now we added schema  video markup as well and google shows in SERP now only the video snippet, but not the review snippet anymore.

Any idea whether there may be a solution to show both video and review snippets?

thanks everybody for the feedback.

I actually also stumbled upon an excellent whiteboard friday from Cyrus related to the topic (also excellent comments at the bottom of the post)

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/title-tags-is-70-characters-the-best-practice-whiteboard-friday

Moosa, Martjin thanks a lot for your feedback.

So I will give it a try.

I would like to put the number of reviews in the meta title of a product page.

I noticed that tripadvisor for example does the same. However I read in some places that people encountered problems with frequent title tag changes.

Did you ever encounter problems by just changing numbers in title tag?
Do you think it is really a problem if just the number of the reviews changes?

what about putting  number of reviews in the meta description instead?

thanks Tim, thanks eyepaq

The point with the dilution is very interesting
Do you remember any sources where anybody tested whether dilution takes place or did you yourself  see significant changes in ranking after shortening title tags?

Is there in fact any kind of negative impact having title tags longer than 70 characters, as long as I place the most important keywords at the start and make sure that title still is compelling when cut somewhere around 70 characters?

Are the additional words after the 70 characters limit just ignored? May additional words dillute the strength of the first words or may they even be helpful ?

Any experience or any studies you know about impact of longer title tags? Or any statement from google about it?

Do you believe using a plugin that allows visitors to rate your blog posts and then generating AggregateReview markup code for each blog post is in accordance with google guidelines?

I saw there are a couple of wordpress plugins that offer this functionality.

Anybody who had any negative experience?

Star icons will certainly increase visibility in SERP.

Gianluca, Aleyda,

thanks. Just talked to PRNewswire.
+8000$ for one release in 22 languages is breaking my budget.

businesswire was similar. I think they are a reseller of PRNewswire.

maybe I will then just distribute worldwide an English press release.

One of our shops got a Panda penalty back in september.

We sell all our items with same product name and same product description also on amazon.com , amazon.co.uk, ebay.com and ebay.co.uk.

Did you ever have a case where such multichannel sales caused panda penalty?

Stephen, Kevin, thanks a lot for your comments.

So basically change in ranking should be happening mostly immediately after google crawl without any further delay?