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What I think Jonathan _might _be getting at is, do citations from other sources with partial information (some of the words matching) negatively affect my business' local rankings? (Jonathan is that what you were getting at?)

If that is your thinking, here is something to think about:

1. Major search engines are smart enough to understand a difference between a photo of a person and a business name. 3) Ultimately these two queries "Photojennette Photography" or "Photo Jennette McCardy" have really little in common to cause beneficial relationships or to negatively affect you.

2. Local rankings use NAP (Name, Address, Phone, and Website) of the business to build rank. I would assume a webpage with a pic of Jeanette would not have this citation info, and either way if it did it would serve as a benefit to you.

Hope this helps!

The higher up the better. Some times Google doesn't crawl the full page, but definitely starts from top to bottom.  The higher you can get the meat of the content, ie top links, keyword phrases, breadcrumbs, the better!

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Hi All,

Did good chunk of research here prior to posting on sitelinks.

• Tried the Webmaster Console to remove the links
• Tried removing via sitemap, WP SEO plugin removal
• Now removed unnecessary pages, and redirected to homepage.
• Re petitioned for removal via Webmaster Google Console area.

Whats been the recent conservative realistic estimate of when sitelinks will be removed/refreshed? Also any tricks to expedite recrawl or re build of sitelinks. The site has very low traffic SMB that uses site purely for portfolio and no ranking/traffic purposes. so maybe the priority is very low for this site.

Back in the day sitelinks were a lot easier to manage or so it seems.

Thoughts?

Hi Oliver,

"Ratings in Google Product Search consist of an aggregate ratings score with snippets of customer reviews from third party sites and from Google Checkout which are based on your store name and the registered domain."

These ratings from Google come from _"various sources" _including:

Bizrate(Shopzilla), Pricegrabber, Epinions, Yahoo, Review Centre, Viewpoints, Google Checkout Reviews, Reseller Ratings, Trustpilot, RateItAll.com, eKomi, and more.

To read more the above is taken from here

PS Google Checkout is no longer a place where reviews can be acquired as it is being cut.

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It is very common for W3TC to perform slower if not configured correctly, or don't have optimal server side configuration to run W3TC caching/speed-improvements. Feel free to read more:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/web-sites-about-20-slower-with-w3-total-cache

Some opt for simpler caching plugins like super cache http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

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Does it matter to Google that the graphics are absolutely identical?

Google only sees text and code, it does not see graphics, remember the google bot/crawler just scans the content, code, and does not see images at all other than the alt tags and image file names.

For users, a logo us usually the defining element that will help a user distinguish between the two sites

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Hi 2bloggers,

You mentioned, "I know my readers appreciate my content and it is appropriate for my genre but I am thinking Google knocked me because the majority of my posts are short." Generally if your readers appreciate your content they will share, like, tweet, and comment to them.  If this is the case Google will not care if its thin content or long content.  All it cares about is great content, and the way Google knows it is great content is the shares, likes, tweets, comments, traffic to your site.  These metrics help convince Google that your site is awesome.

Having said, longer great content, is better than shorter great content.  You can also try inviting guest posters to write long awesome content to help with some of your writing.  They will appreciate you letting them write for you assuming you have an active reader base.

Author schema really shines and helps with clickthrough on the SERPS in Google results for posts and articles and sometimes pages.  (see attached) It is not so much useful beneficial, (even though it can be done, and you may still find value) for your author page. Also generally G+ profile is linked to your Author schema, You cannot add schema to your moz profile page. Or in that case use your moz profile to link to your site like you can with G+. Even though this could be really cool idea but not sure if Google will allow that

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You mentioned an interest to run this on wordpress, if so this should guide you right through it:

http://wpmu.org/turn-your-wordpress-blog-into-an-ebay-style-auction-site/

Also here is a theme to make it happen for you as well:

http://onlinedemo.sitemile.com/?theme=auction

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkantrowitz/2013/04/05/gmails-new-compose-breaks-rapportive-perhaps-its-most-useful-plugin/

I know its such a good Plugin and I am not too happy with the new compose

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So if you read around on the topic Google supporting AJAX is a recent development so there are still many issues, with this. Think of it this way if Google bots still have a hard time reading regular code after so many years now. AJAX will have issues, they are focusing from what it seems on commenting systems such as FB, and Disqus. However try it out and see if your AJAX is being read if not it might be some time before most of the AJAX crawling works as it should.

Hope this helps

More info: http://searchengineland.com/google-can-now-execute-ajax-javascript-for-indexing-99518

and http://moz.com/community/q/can-google-read-ajax

.org is a self hosted which gives you 100% control with plugins like Yoasts SEO plugin that was mentioned. .com is free version that is great for mom blogs etc

What method are you using to check your pagerank?

Also if you are comfortable sharing your URL in question that will provide an easy way to check.

Thanks

One and the only interesting feature/aspect that I noticed is that Magnolia is used for very high trafficked sites.

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That sounds fine. I would choose either google apps or zoho for custom email.

I have not heard of Hostasaurus up to this point.

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No-follow is still in the works with search engines , and SEOs are still in research phase, of testing whether or not no-follow counts and what it counts for.

Responses like these are not uncommon: "but what little research has been done by anyone would seem to indicate that they do still count those [no-follow] links."

More: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/all-wikipedia-links-are-now-nofollow/4288/

Hi Marike,

1. Yes, change for the better or for the worse, usually they might take a dip for and then recover if all is done well and thought out.

2. Same response as above.

As for the best way to do this, there are many ways to accomplish this well, and its worth doing all the due diligence.

Some resources from moz to get you started here and here.

Hope this helps

"On the other URL checker you gave me the site scored 3 F's & 3 A's but i am not sure whether that is good or bad."

I use that test mainly to test the load times 1st and reload times, here are your results:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140208_3Y_B5M/

This was run for 1.5DSL connection from London, UK. 18sec and 10sec is def on the slower side, and caching could definitely help. As you want to aim for 2-5sec loads.

But roughly looking at the validation errors I didnt spot anything that would decrease your performance, in your case the performance is mostly likely not due to the validations. Again I just did a rough look through, so dont take my words for fact. Maybe others can chime in if they see something out of the ordinary with the errors.

If you have great links pointing to the old dated pages, just update them with new information. Generally its better not to have outdated info on your site, but sometimes pages are left, even if dated, as they have great links pointing to them. This gives you best of both, as long as the link does not say site.com/fair-2012 and you are adding new info to it. Might want to keep it general and not date specific.

Hope this helps

Hi Michael,

I would tackle and answer this for you but Cyrus Shephard just gives such a great answer here

Let me know if this provides enough food for thought to make a best decision about .com vs ccTLDs as this answer depends on the outcomes you desire and the work you would like to put in!