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I know that there is a thumbnail meta tag:  --but I doubt this populates it. My gut tells me that Google will do this automatically. On seorountable, they speculate it may come from product schema/market and the rich snippets Google shows for them.

Hi. I say the content and "worthiness" of review is much-much more important than the date. Unless your products are freshness/time dependent. If you've been selling the same shoes for years, then reviews from 4 years ago will be as relevant as from yesterday. Now, if your shoes had some major issues and you've improved since then, which would affect the reviews, then sure, remove the old ones, as long as they are irrelevant. Also, it depends on how many reviews you're getting. If you have 5 reviews and 4 of them are from four years ago, then, I think you should pay more attention to actually getting reviews, rather than filtering them. Another thing I'd like to point out is that it's better to have old reviews than no reviews whatsoever. In terms of SEO effect - as far as I know, the ratings is more important than the freshness. Which does make sense - if you have 1/5 stars with 10k review from last month - it won't be better than 100 5/5 star reviews from couple years ago. Hope this make sense. Cheers.

Hi All, Thanks for the updates. We solved the issue by only add # to the url when changing from color. So initial load of the product is the clean url. Guess that is all we need to do to don't get penaltilized by Google.

Agree with Brady & Adam on this one. Each great responses. I'll just add that, for the most part, the URL should be for the user first and then the search engine. A lot of times brands have funk looking URLs that have numbers and symbols in them - not user friendly. So, I'd recommend adding your descriptive keyword/producA/B/C into the URL if it'll help the user understand your product and navigate your site better Hope this helps!

Hey Jeroen, If you are going down the ccTLD route I would host each sites it's respected country, it's possible Google will apply some weight to the geo location of the IP address (you should also set the location in WMT). But more importantly hosting in the same country is going to improve site load times which will help out (a tiny bit atm) with google and improve the user experience. Hosting in another country is not going to get you "penalised" by Google but it's not going to send a signal (from the geo location of the IP address) that you are located in Germany - this may or may not affect your rankings. I recommend you watch this video: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday Hope that helps... Keith

Have raised the same issue in another thread, and others are also having the same prob, Rand has personally answered that saying it is being dealt with, but as of now, it is still behaving strangely. Reports I ordered days ago and a few this morning are still "pending", another I ordered 5 mins ago, came through straight away. This is odd ....