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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 EGOL,

Thanks for your response, and your advice.

Running the site we take over is not an option because of many reasons, so we chose to redirect the domain to ours. IS it that bad to use a 301 from the root of the domain we take over to our domain for the time being? Because the website we take over is 'temporarily offline' now, and we want to push DA, customers and Google traffic to our website asap. Later on we will go in details for the specific redirects of URL's from 2nd and 3rd tiers.

There is a plan for taking this company over.

I hoped to receive an answer on my question how to fix the specific redirects later on when the server of the company we take over will not be online anymore. How can we keep the redirects alive when the server will be cancled?

Thanks again.
Marcel

Hi there,

We are about to take over a player in the market with some good DA en PA's. We choose to redirect all the pages from the domain we take over to our main domain for now, later we want to redirect all categories to relevant and similar categories on our own domain.

The company we take over is using a server which will be cancelled in a while. For now we set up the 301 redirect(s) on their server we take over. Because of the extra costs we will cancel the server in a few weeks/months. What is a common way to keep 301 redirects alive after cancelling the server of company we take over?

I hope someone can give me the help I need in this one.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Marcel

Hi Kevin & TorontoV,

Thanks for your responses, and your warning signs concerning a migration to https. We recently launched a new website and we are going to 'migrate' this one first before taking any action on our main webshop. Since we had'nt received any backlinks until now on the new domain, there is no thread for this one.

@Kevin: I'll definitely follow your advice not migrating until Google gives a countdown message for our main domain.

Thanks again!

Marcel

Hi Andy & Jonathan,

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

Cheers,
Marcel

Hi Andy & Jonathan,

Thanks for your response. This helps me a lot :).

Actually we do a lot of 3rd party advertising. I realize that we need to change all scripts but also URL's in tools of 3rd parties. This will be an important process I need to execute carefully.

Is the htaccess code enough and does it fix a correct 301 redirect?

Tnx!
Marcel

Hi there,

For several reasons we consider to switch from http to https. My question about this:

• Does this change impact organic search results since the URL changes? Is a simple 301 on the highest level enough to keep all of our positions with every page?

Are there any other possible issues we might think about before deciding?

I'm talking about a webshop with over 50k indexed pages and lots of running marketing channels all setted up based on the http URL structure.

Thanks in advance.
Marcel

Hi Dirk,

After contacting Google by phone and mail, filing a few more spam reports and refreshing textual content, we got our results back and traffic/revenue has grown since. We are very happy, and no other pages got attacked (yet).

Thanks for your help.

Marcel

Hi Dirk,

Let's hope the hacker only copied a few pages and not the entire site. What could a site like soft-solutions possibly do to clean their site? I think it's worth a chance to ask planchemag and wearemash to do the same. My new URL shows up if you search for 'iphone 6 / 6s hoesje', that's something positive. I filed a request for deletion of the old and hacked URL of the iPhone 6 page, hopefully Google throws it out and picks up the new and clean one like it does with the other search query.

I can do nothing but wait now I guess. I will keep you updated here.

Marcel

Hi Dirk,

That second result is our homepage, I see that this one got indexed at the exact same time our own homepage got indexed. However, Google shows our (the good one!) homepage in the search results.

That's quite ironical indeed, the webdesign company.

The other result redirects to planchemag.com, which only gives one result on a site:www.planchemag.com/. What about this one?
Is it possible this hack only limits to those two pages?

I used the tool copyscape.com and it seem to be only the following pages that are affected:

http://imgur.com/YVFcZsM

What about this one: search for site:soft-solutions.nl and you'll find our iPhone 5/5s pagina. Search for 'iPhone 5 hoesje' and Google shows our correct page as a result. How is this possible?

Marcel

Hi Dirk,

I just set the redirect, just to be sure. This is a realy bad thing, people can abuse Google to negatively impact a whole company and lots of individuals. That should not be possible, hope Google will fix this soon!

You assume the whole site will go down in Google and not only those two pages? This will be terrible.

Marcel