Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Hi Kyle

Take a look at the Build a sitemap page from Google Webmaster Tools Help, particularly "Sitemap tag definitions".

There are some tags you can take advantage of that can also help with crawling and how often your pages change.

Take a look at that page and make sure everything is formatted properly.

Hope this helps a bit as well - good luck!

OH! I thought it was a new snippet that we were talking about - somehow Google showcasing Free Shipping or COD more prominently. Thanks for clarifying this more Alick!

I agree with EGOL here.

I would look at it more from the usability standpoint and if it provides value for the user. I am not too fond of them so I never recommend them, but that's really up to you and if it appeals to your audience.

You can test with VWO or Optimizely and see the engagement based on the data collected and go from there.

Hope this helps - good luck!

Hi there

Testimonials are great - they help build trust in your brand and work from a user standpoint, and can also help bring in search traffic by mentioning specific development, design, or industry elements in their critique.

You can also use these testimonials to develop case study or white paper content to showcase more benefits of using your business or your competition.

Hope this helps - good luck!

Hi there

When you have these issues, you have options. For instance, if the product is never coming back, you could redirect the page to a relevant product or category, remove the page from your sitemap, and change internal links, or simply create a custom 404 page.

But, if the product is coming back and temporarily unavailable, you could create an out of stock message to let users know the product isn't available at the moment (and will be back) but there's a whole site to explore and check out other products. But again, you have to keep the user in mind with errors on your site.

You can read more about Domain Authority here - although it's not directly stated, I am sure having errors all over you site (especially almost 10% of it) could be bad for it - although it's not at the point right now.

I would start there - what products are legitimately gone? What ones are just out of stock? Can you redirect these to their categories? Are users landing on these pages a lot?

I would also take a look at your backlink profile in Majestic and see which links are worth correcting or removing.

This is upto you to prioritize these issues and remedy accordingly. Good luck!

Hi there

Consider this a good problem to have! Check out this response by EGOL to a previous question.

Hope this helps!

Okay - 99.9% sure that is your issue - make sure your WMT is properly implemented on your site - everything should fall into place then.

Hi there

Take a look into hreflang attributes and language tags. This will help Google and Bing alternate the URLs and content. You can also do this in your sitemap.

There also great international SEO articles from Moz, especially this checklist.

You will want to geotarget your site variations in Google and Bing as well, if they do in fact target specific countries or regions.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi Ravi

When you select "Text-only version", it's showing you the way that Googlebot, or potentially other robots and crawlers, see your website. This is an important tool because it can tell you if Google is picking up content on your site. If you see nothing, then Google can't see your content, and you need to change this. Luckily for you, Google is seeing content.

However, it looks like you may be missing some basic SEO opportunities on this page - take a look at On-Page Factors.

Here's a good post from Boostability Blog and SEO Theory with some good information on Google's cache.

Hope this all helps! Good luck!

Hi there

Is there a way you can message me the example of what you are referencing? It's kind of confusing at the moment.

My first two instincts are to tell you to read into Full Specification and AJAX Crawling, both Google resources, but your /a/ to /a-1/ redirect is confusing me and I want to make sure I fully understand.

Let me know if this is possible! Thanks so much.

Hi there

I like to include brand in the title, and I actually use the " Page Title | Brand " format. As long as the main page title is seen within the 50-60 characters of your search result, your brand doesn't have to appear - reason being, crawlers read the entire title, but users really only care what they searched for, unless they have a brand preference, so the title of the content will do just fine.

Whatever format you choose, keep it consistent.

Hope my opinion here helps, good luck!

Hi there

For me, if you're trying to target specific languages with your new site, I would use subdirectories. If it's an issue to do subdomains, you're better off building directories and targeting those specifically.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there

Don't block pages or directories because they have duplicate/missing titles - instead, fix them - those pages may provide value and you could be missing some big opportunities.

"...we can leave things as is without worrying about the page being de-ranked/penalized." - you're blocking the page in your robots.txt, so you're already not being indexed. If you are looking to index these pages, you need to remove that robots.txt.

Go through, assess your titles and page content, and change your titles to be uniquely relevant to the content on that page. If you have the opportunity as well, do a content audit to see if pages can be condensed or expanded.

Hope this all helps! Good luck!

Hi there

I am not seeing it in my results, but I want to say it's one of the following:
Sitelinks
Breadcrumbs (schema)
Site search

I want to say (again, without being sure) that this may be a mix of structured data and good site architecture that helps crawlers connect popular pages that fall within the same categories.

Again, totally guessing, but that's my thought process. Maybe someone will provide the answer shortly!

I would definitely look into the sources above though! Good luck!

Hi there

Moz has had a couple of issues over the last few days, so check here and see if this applies to you. Also, does this drop happen in your Google Analytics?

You should check the Google Algorithm History page, as there are resources about a update that happened on May 3rd.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there

According to the Moz Help Hub under "More Help"...

"What are some of Roger's crawl limits?

Pages

Your crawl limits are directly tied to how many pages you choose to crawl on your site. You can edit these settings in any campaign's settings section."

You can learn more about your Campaign Settings here!

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi Joost

Did you happen to take a look at SEO Guide to Google Webmaster Recommendations for Pagination? There are some great tips in there that can help you implement this.

Also, View-all in search results & 5 common mistakes with rel=canonical from Google also has some tips.

Hope these help a bit! Let me know if you have any questions or comments! Good luck!

Hi there

Have you utilized Schema on the page or do you have any plugins for the platform that may be causing the issue? If you're using the Merchant Center, here is their resource on feed specifications.

Can you provide an example URL so that someone here can get a more closer look?

Thanks!

Hi there

I want to say cannibalization isn't a bad thing if it's done in a well structured and thought out way. Here's a more recent Whiteboard Friday regarding this topic, along with targeting and density.

I would agree with you that "pashmina" is a little overused on this particular site and should be cleaned up.

Just wanted to add that Whiteboard Friday here.

Hey there

Yes they do if links were built. Keep in mind that these crawlers from these services can only crawl so much and retain so much information. So, while you may not be seeing them in those tools, that doesn't mean they aren't there. You may also want to do an inventory check and make sure those listings and citations still exist, and if they are still relevant and not considered spammy at this point.

Hope this helps. Good luck!