Ahh I understand now - yes, then this could be bad and I would be trying to find a way to resolve it.

Best of luck with sorting it out

-Andy

Inconsistent, yes - this could have a negative effect, but just because a listing appears a second time on the same site, this wouldn't be a negative.

Take Yell.com as an example - you can appear on many pages on there, as you can in many directories, and this has never been shown to cause any problems. However, I would be interested to see any research that says otherwise.

I really wouldn't worry about this if all it is, is a possibility that a second listing might also get featured.

I can't offer advice on specifics to do with the site itself I'm afraid though. Have you tried reaching them via Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook?

-Andy

Ahh now I understand - so they are sending your listings out twice?

Have you checked to make sure that your listing is actually being duplicated on other sites?

Chances are that this wouldn't do anything from any SEO or Google perspective - I'm not actually familiar with that site so can't offer any specific suggestions on how they work.

What is your main concern that is worrying you?

-Andy

Hi,

What sort of duplicate listing is it? Any chance of sharing the duplication problem?

-Andy

The problem that I have found with this in the past is that Google sees the whole page and not the images. I found this to be more of a limit of Wordpress.

However, you could use an image sitemap and see if you can get them indexed that way?

-Andy

I'm a little torn between what I would do in this situation.

Google says don't change URL's for the sake of SEO as it won't many any difference, but if there is a location mentioned in the URL and that is now limiting, from a usability point of view, this might be detrimental.

I would probably go for removing it though as this is always going to be there and might make less and less sense.

Create 301's and you should be good either way.

-Andy

Hi,

I quite like this one personally but I can't say for sure if it will ever get it wrong. Seems to be pretty decent though
https://totheweb.com/learning_center/tool-test-google-title-meta-description-lengths/

However, I tend to keep meta descriptions purposefully shorter than I need as I like to try and get the point across as quickly as possible.

-Andy

It sounds like there are a number of issues going on here and it's quite hard to envisage everything.

Having captions indexed as snippets requires the page to be setup in such a way that Google can use them. But remember that in terms of what Google shows, they will deliver what they thing bets suits the search query.

In terms of images being indexed, have you thought about having an image sitemap, or having them included in this? However, I wouldn't be setting a canonical from slideshows to base pages as this sounds like it could cause you a load of headaches.

Duplication is hard to assess as there could be a number of reasons from this, including incorrectly set canonical tags, indexed pages or other semi-technical issues.

Personally, I wouldn't be looking at slideshow images as something to be indexed, but I would be using some of these images in the page itself. This is just what I have found in the past.

-Andy

Hi Robin,

There is no real problem in what you want to do. Medium is a great way to get your content in-front of more people, as is Pulse.

This is what Google has to say on the matter...

• Syndicate carefully: If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show the version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which may or may not be the version you'd prefer. However, it is helpful to ensure that each site on which your content is syndicated includes a link back to your original article. You can also ask those who use your syndicated material to use the noindex meta tag to prevent search engines from indexing their version of the content.

I would say go for it - have seen this done many, many times and without any issue.

-Andy

Hi,

I haven't had to do this myself, but this guide in Google might help you outwith the Apple stuff?
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6095881?hl=en-GB

-Andy

OK, so if you have duplicated the content on each TLD, then this needs resolving. However, if you are just pointing say the .com to a .org, then this is absolutely fine.

If this content is live on each domain and it isn't intended for a different country, then this is a big no-no. You would normally handle this with HREFLANG, but, there is something to think about.

You could noindex / disallow access to all but one website so that Google can't see lots of duplicates, but the sites are still going to be available to browse for a user.

-Andy

Hi Nicky,

How far off do you see the content as being published? The reason I ask if because Mobile First isn't far off and this is changing how Google indexes pages and works out the rankings.

Part of this is that they are going to start viewing the content behind a tab or accordion - the main reason for this is that Google is going to start using the mobile site for both mobile and desktop rankings and they see this as the best technique to keep mobile users happy. It is good for UX.

At the moment, Google will index that content, but it will be given a lower score than if it was all shown, but you also need to think about how a page might look without it - will it just be a huge page that you can get lost in, or is it not so big that you could have only 20 Q&A's and have it still looking good?

-Andy

Hi,

Just to confirm, do you have the same content on each TLD or just have these forwarding to your primary domain?

-Andy