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Is there anybody else with some advice in this one? I realy have no idea why this page title is not the correct one.

Hope somebody can help me with this!

Marcel

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the tips.

Is there any one else who has some advice for me in this situation?

Thanks,
Marcel

Hello,

We are optimizing our mobile (responsive) website at this moment and we want to change some elements on the productpage of our webshop in order of rank. This is the outcome of a data analysis which proves a change in rank of order will result in a higher conversion rate. No doubt.

By technical limitations there is no other option but duplicating the element 'product description' in the source of the page to be able to show in on the spot on the product page we like to. Because our webshop is responsive we can not just move the element to the right spot for mobile because the tablet and desktop version then will change as well.

My question is: will it be a problem for Google if we hide the original element of the product description on mobile pages by using the bootstrap class "hidden-xs" and duplicate it on another spot in the page to show it with the "visible-xs" class?

My concern is that this will create duplicate content and hiding content for Google is not particularly good.

On the other hand, I think Google is smart enough to understand that this is not to manipulate visitors or rankings, but this is only for a different look of the mobile website.

I hope you guys can give me some good advice.
Thanks in advance.
Marcel

Hi Sean,

Thanks for your reply.

We took over this domain a while ago now (like 6-8 months) so Google should have indexed all the right data already. Last week I had made some minor changes in our backoffice which I hoped it would solve the problem (it didn't), and right after that action I asked Google to recrawl the homepage. I did this via Google Webmaster Tools indeed.

So I guess is still need your help :).

Marcel

Hi there,

A while ago we took over the domain www.hoesjes.nl and forwarded it to our website www.telefoonhoesjesxl.nl. If you perform a search for the keyword 'hoesjes' in Google then we (www.telefoonhoesjesxl.nl) show up on an organic number 1 position. The problem is that the page title isn't correct. Google shows the page title of the website hoesjes.nl we took over and (correctly?) redirected to our domain www.telefoonhoesjesxl.nl.

Does anybody have any idea how to get rid of this wrong page title in Google?
Here you can find a screenshot of what I mean.

Thanks!

Marcel

Hi there,

In the past few weeks I found one major source of the 404 increase. Unfortunately for you this was an internal change from our webshop host in the way the self referring canonical got built up. It added an extra 'www.' to a specific group of URL's. We fixed this so now I'm marking those errors as resolved.

Does anyone know how to show all of the errors in stead of the top 1000 list? Since we have 50k errors, this will take me 50 days to get to the last batch.

@ViviCa1: another part of the extra 404 errors come from old product pages, just like you said. Maybe Google decided that not redirected URL's are still important so we get the chance to redirect them now? I'm setting up an internal workflow to start redirecting all non existing productpages from the past but also in the future to prevent huge lists of 404 errors in GWT.

Marcel

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your repsonse. In the meanwhile the way I tried to use the power of internal linkbuilding seems to work!

Marcel

Hi ViviCa1,

It seems like we have the same problem, and nobody knows a solution for it. Maybe we can help each other by keep testing to find out what caused this high amount of 404 errors.

If you found anything, please keep me up to date. I will do the same!

Marcel

Hello,

Since the 30th of August there has been a strange increase of pages not found in Google Webmaster Tools. Since we have a webshop there has always been like 26k not found pages because productpages of products that are sold out go offline for a while and when a product will never come back, it will be deleted without a 301 redirect. This causes a high amount of pages not found which has never caused any problems. On the 30th of August the amount of 26k increased to 46k and keeps on being this amount since.

I can only export 1k of 'bad URL's' so I can never find the ones that cause this increase. Does anybody have an idea how to find out what caused this increase? I already asked IT and nothing big has changes on the 30th of August.

GWT says it's just Desktop and not Smartphone. Also DNS, server connectivity and robots.txt are ok.

Hope anybody can help me because (accidentally?) we have lost two very important number 1 positions in Google in the last few days so there might be something going on that Google doens't like.

Thanks in advance.
Marcel

Hello,

I'm curious what the difference is between internal links from the homepage and category pages. Make it sense to give some internal links from category pages (with a high PA) to an another page for a boost in the search results? Or is the link value too low in this case?

Thanks in advance,
Marcel

Hi Andy & Jonathan,

Thanks again. I'm going to use this information when we are ready to migrate.

Cheers,
Marcel

Hello,

I'm curious what the difference is between internal links from the homepage and category pages. Make it sense to give some internal links from category pages (with a high PA) to an another page for a boost in the search results? Or is the link value too low in this case?

Thanks in advance,
Marcel