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Hi guys, what is the difference between a manual penalty in the results and an algorithm?

If its algorithm its usually a couple of pages but a manual do you get deindexed or put say 10 pages back?

Any advice on how to best determin if a push back in results is manual or algorithm would be great. This will best help me judge how long it will take to get back to where I was with one of my sites once i have cleaned up some of my back-link profile.

Thanks.

What would cause something to disappear off auto complete? seems very strange it was there for ages and had great volume.

Yes auto complete drop down, or when you type a keyword a drop down below suggests an add on to the keyword. What decides what keywords go in there, do Google look at ctr%?

Hi guys, i received traffic off a yearly based term, this year for '2013' i noticed it is nowhere near what the yearly term was for the year before.

I believe that Google has stopped the yearly term appearing in a drop-down menu from a big volume related term, my question is how do they determine what goes in the drop down menu for related/relevant searches?

Thanks guys, good stuff

Here's my issue I have the same page twice for content but on different url for the country, for example:

www.example.com/gb/page/

and

www.example.com/us/page

So one for USA and one for Great Britain. Or it could be a subdomain gb. or us. etc.

Now is it duplicate content is US version indexes the page and UK indexes other page (same content different url), the UK search engine will only see the UK page and the US the us page, different urls but same content.

Is this bad for the panda update? or does this get away with it? People suggest it is ok and good for localised search for an international website - im not so sure.

Really appreciate advice.

Ah ours are 69 lol, this makes sense. Though it happened today and i saw competitors have it today.

Hi Martin its non brand terms, and ive noticed some competitors today get it also.

Hi guys and gals, i noticed in the results today Google has been changing my title tags so that brand: is in the front of it all.

This is not in the code but my title tag structure site-wide is keywords and then always | brand on the end.

Why has this happened does anyone know? does it affect my first keyword in the title tag, i guess Google might do it as it recognises the brand and wants users to know it?

I heard they will give the ranking of the content to the more powerful site? not sure if thats correct. If they thought you had copied it then perhaps no ranking at all?

Could it be that the big sites quoting some of your text are seen as the orgininal source as they are very high domain authority websites?

This is an interesting debate. There doesn't seem to be any 100% confident answers, perhaps they dont want brands being the author of their content.

Its crazy we have to ask these questions, some clarification would be fantastic.

I think Google need to come out more and decide what recommendations there will be for content written by a business. Currently its all so vague, not good. Thanks for your thoughts Andy much appreciated.

Hi Andy cheers for that.

The issue is why would i assign content written by my business to an individual, surely it makes sense got google to allow a brnad page to be the author of content.

I've got all this great content and i feel i might miss out on rankings/benefits from not assigning an author - but i dont want to assign any specific individual, it was written by the business as such. Any recommendations? perhaps google will let brand pages be the author of business content in the future?

Hi guys i have a big e-commerce website, we have put rel=publisher on our homepage and linked it up with our google + profile.

We sell holidays and have a big resort guide full of quality content, do i need to put rel=publisher on those too?

It doesn't seem right to put a personal author with a personal google + page on content as the author. Do i simply as a business page use rel=publisher instead?

Any advice much appreciated, i find this confusing in all honesty on what benefits the most.

I have 4 keywords bolded on my homepage all with the same term in them.

Would panda penalise this? i recently saw that one keyword drop in rankings.

Hiya, well i saw it go from 12th to 20th - this is a very competitive keyword. The landing page is my homepage. I didn't see any other target keywords go though.

I saw this happen about 8pm Friday last week (gmt).

I might also add, i bolded the keyword on the page once, but other keywords are bolded that feature that keyword - this happens about 4 times - is it seen spammy by panda thus taking me down rankings?

Hi there, on the panda update a few weeks ago i noticed i dropped 8 places for a very competitive keyword.

All my content in the site is unique and quality. Its also not published elsewhere.

I think the update did knock this one keyword down for me - no others got hti though. Perhaps the landing page got it? too many mentions of the keyword? however i didn't think i spammed it on the page, perhaps jsut mentioned once or twice - any ideas?

Any help aprpeciated

Say i auth with an individual employee on google+ and get gains from it when the algo takes it into consideration - what happens if they start letting company profiles auth with content? will i have messed the pages up, or do you think i could have reverted?

Surely Google will let you eventually auth a company google+ profile with content it has written, it makes sense as a company should write trusted and quality content.