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Over the last year I have noticed a trend in a couple of industries. Google seems to prioritise landing pages with pricing information in the content. This seems more important than it used to.

One industry is high end industrial machines. Traditionally there isn't a price list as everything is bespoke for the customer. Low end machines that display an off the shelf price are now ranking higher than they used to. This is frustrating because the different machines meet different customer requirements. However, both sorts of customers are likely to use the same search terms.

Has anyone else noticed this trend?

I have just come across the same issue for a site I am optimising. For me, when www is used the page authority in OSE is 42 compared to 33 when there is no www.

It would be really good to hear what people's views are on this.

Billy

Cheers. As you know it is quite hard work to get a good site with small mark-up. With all the fuss Google makes with Pagespeed it seem contradictory that this is a spam flag.

My site www.brightonsoundsystem.co.uk has been optimised for speed so I have minimised the code needed.

Now if I put it through the OSE spam analysis it has a flag for "Site Mark-up is Abnormally Small". What ratio of visible text compared to mark-up code is being used to trigger this flag. Also as this is the only flag I have is ti worth the time fixing.

Thank you for the pointer. Google does indeed lease maps from Zenrin-DataCom. Now I just need to get my head around how they gather information as it is not obvious from their website.

Thanks for your answers. I have decided to link to the less well performing pages with better on page optimisation to get more diversity in my inbound link profile. In my industry it is rare for external links to point at anything but the home page.

Hi,

Some friends are happy to link to my site. As I am focusing on a particular search term is it best to have them link to the page that already appears in the SERP for that term or the one with better on page optimisation?

Thanks

Billy

Hi There,

Does any one know how to input data such as restaurants into Google Maps in Japan? Google Map Maker isn't supported in Japan and I can't find who the primary data suppliers are.

I am looking to find out so I can improve my neighbourhood guide on an airbnb listing. It would be great to tell people the location of local shops and restaurants but can only add locations listed in Google maps which is limited for Kurokawa in Japan.

Thanks

Billy