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I have a case in which the whole site is AJAX, the method to appease to crawlers used is

 <meta< span="">name="fragment" content="!">  Which is the new HTML5 PushState that Bing said it supports (At least I think it is that)

This approach works for Google, but Bing isn't showing anything.
Does anyone know if Bing supports this and we have to alter something or if not is there a known work around?

The only other logic we have is to recognize the bing user agent and redirect to the rendered page, but we were worried that could cause some kind of cloaking penalty</meta<>

How has no one mentioned SiteTuners! http://sitetuners.com/

I like their newsletter.

We have faceted navigation for the desktop version, so breadcrumbs are overkill. In the mobile version all of the faceted nav disappears, but we show the breadcrumbs.

We just aren't sure how marking up breadcrumbs functions with responsive if they only show on one version.

I am working on a site that has responsive design. We use faceted search for the desktop version but implemented a style of breadcrumbs for the mobile version as sidebars take up too much screen real estate.

On the desktop design we are putting a display:none in front of the breadcrumbs. If we mark up those breadcrumbs and they are behind a display none, can we still get the rich snippets? Will Google see this is cloaking?

In follow up, is there a way to markup breadcrumbs in the or somewhere else that is constant?

My website has a main section that we call expert content and write for. We also have a community subdomain which is all user generated.

We are a pretty big brand and I am wondering should the rel publisher tag just be for the www expert content, or should we also use it on the community UGC even though we don't directly write that?

Google has a separate mobile crawler. This crawler probably uses guidelines from the mobile sitemap instead of the desktop sitemap.

I think it is worthwhile to make a separate mobile sitemap even with responsive design so Google knows those are the mobile as well as desktop pages.

Thanks guys, We definitely mark up entities that have a chance of showing rich snippets, so far though I haven't seen any of these for purely article markup.

http://schema.org/Article

I guess that answers my question though, probably not worth the implementation costs at this time.

I am working with a site that has sitemaps broken down very specifically. By page type: article, page etc and also broken down by Category. Unfortunately, this is not done hierarchically. Category and page type are separate maps, they are not nested. My question here is:

Is is detrimental to have two separate sitemaps that point to the same pages? Should we eliminate one of these taxonomies, or maybe just try to make them hierarchical? IE item type -> category -> pagetitle

Is there an issue with having a sitemap index that points to a nested sitemap index?

(I dont think so, but might as well be sure.

Thanks Moz Community!

Can't delete my question, but turns out that isn't how they are structured. Food for thought anyway I suppose.

I'm working with a few international sites that we are going to collapse into one main site. Our current plan is to 301 the 4 other sites into our main site home page.

Is this ok? Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks

I have a website that has similar pages on a US version and a UK version. Currently we want Uk traffic to go to the US, but the US domain is so strong it is outranking the UK in the UK.

We want to try using rel alternate but have some concerns. Currently for some of our keywords US is #1, UK is #4. If we implement rel alternate, will it just remove our US page? We don't want to shoot ourselves in the foot and lose traffic. Is this worth doing, will it just remove our US ranking and our double listing?

Any anecdotes, experiences or opinions are appreciated. Thanks.

I know things like location, pagination, breadcrumbs, video, products etc have value in using schema markup. What about things like articles though?

Is it worth all the work involved in having the pages mark up automatically? How does this effect SEO, and is it worthwhile?

Thanks,

Spencer

Question: Do 410 show in the 404 not found section in Google Webmaster Tools?

Specific situation: We got rid of an entire subdomain except for a few pages that we 301'd to relevant content on our main domain. The rest return a 404 not found. These show up in our google webmaster tools as crawl errors. I was wondering since 410 is a content gone error and we intentionally want this content gone, if we switch it to 410, does Google still report it as a 404 error?

Thanks

I know I am way late to the party, but MagicDude4Eva, have you had success just putting a noindex header on the soft 404 pages?

That sounds like the easiest way to deal with this problem, if it works, especially since a lot of sites use dynamic URLs for product search that you don't want to de-index.

Can you have multiple 404 pages? Otherwise redirecting an empty search results page to your 404 page could be quite confusing..

I have a site with faceted search but sometimes when someone drills down too far it ends up with no results. The page and outlined and faceted navigation are still there.

The site uses dynamic URLs for the faceted navigation but Google is reporting these no results pages as Soft 404s. How should we handle these?

Should we redirect these?

Can we return 404 in the status code but still show the no results page they are looking for?

Thanks for your responses

I am working on a site that has lots of dynamic parameters. So lets say we have www.example.com/page?parameter=1

When the page has no parameters you can still end up at www.example.com/page?

Should I redirect this to www.example.com/page/    ?

Im not sure if Google ignores this, or if these pages need to be dealt with.

Thanks

That is true, but I also have them 301'd to the http version and canonicaled! That is pretty much every possible signal to tell them those pages aren't pages and don't index them.

I suppose we can submit the URLs, unfortunately there are a LOT of tag pages.

Thanks for the advice Dana!

I have some tag pages on one of my sites that I meta noindexed. This worked for the http version, which they are canonical'd to but now the https:// version is indexing.

The https version is both noindexed and has a canonical to the http version, but they still show up!  I even have wordpress set up to redirect all https: to http! For some reason these pages are STILL showing in the SERPS though. Any experience or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Example page: https://www.michaelpadway.com/tag/insurance-coverage/

Thanks all!

I have a facebook like button on my homepage. Currently, it points to my facebook page, so every time someone likes this button they are liking my facebook page.

Is this how it should be structured? Do the likes count towards my home page?

Is there a way that a like can simultaneously like my facebook page AND my website?

Which is best for search metrics?

Thanks for your responses.

I have seen some sites that always redirect to https and some sites that always redirect to http://, but lately I have seen sites that force the url to just the site.

As in [sitename].com, no www. no http://.

Does this affect SEO in anyway? Is it good or bad for other things?

I was surprised when I saw it and don't really know what effect it has.

Sorry, let me clarify. By used to I mean before the domain was migrated over. So it was hyphens on the old site, but was changed to underscores on the new site.