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I have the same issue, also wondering a proper fix, since whats being mentioned as a duplicate title and meta des are redirects of the same product page.

Thanks for asking this and I look forward to hearing a response.

I'd clean up any errors that google webmaster tools says you have,

Fix all 404 and other pages

Check on keyword usage through out your site, make sure you link to others a few times on each page but only sites you trust that are relevant to your site.

Write helpful content about your site's subject matter that will help users so they trust you further to use your service after they see the help works.

Monitor your traffic and see where users are clicking once they hit your site, and adjust the user experience based on that info and bounce rates.

See what your competitors are ranking and for what keywords, see about finding other keywords they may have missed, or just check to see how you could better use them on your own site.

It's no longer about being better and having more links from others. It's about how legit your information and content is to what your overall site is selling. If you have a carpet cleaning site but you give reviews and info about nothing once so ever, you haven't introduced anything to the SERPs and therefor will be left behind.

Content is key but helping your fellow users is the overall goal.

I'm sure others will mention the many things I failed to think of at this very moment to assist you

I actually just talked with BBB.org ( Greater Baltimore Area ) about this backlink issues, since we found a few competitors who had " FOLLOW " backlinks while we did not, all this while we paid their yearly subscription. After asking why this was, the BBB.org ( Greater Baltimore Area ) Informed us that this practice of follow links for backlinks was going bye bye.

**They told us that all follow backlinks will be changed to NOFOLLOW links shortly.  **

As for the when the listings would be changed, that was answered " Whenever the webadmins of that area get to it ". So seems they were giving one group of customers one treatment while giving another the run around.

I don't think BBB.org will be around much longer after this major tidbit is implemented, since the overall site doesn't do much more than act as a verified source and google and plenty of others do this for free.

Spend your money on something with a better ROI, in my opinion.

After doing some backlink searching on competitors, I see a great deal of competitor's backlinks are obvious linkfarms and just completely unrelated to their field. Also I see a lot of forum comments using links are showing as backlinks, upon inspecting the html element I see they're " no follow " links. Why are they showing up as backlinks with link equity then?

After inquiring to Moz.org about this, they suggested this might be due to a new feature that was rolled out, however, this 2 year old backlink still hasn't shown up and I'm a little concerned. Has anyone else experienced this?

What could you do if the Duplicate description was the actual wording " Product Description " ? Using BigCommerce they have it set up this way and It's rather baffling it is so.

So we aren't interested in paying a thousand dollars a month just to have https when we feel it's the only selling point of that package, so we have https for our store and the rest of the site blogs and all are http. I'm wondering if this would count as duplicate content or give us some other unforeseen penalty due to the half way approach of https being implemented.

If this is hurting us, what would you recommend as a solution?

While analyzing competition, I frequently see backlinks being the biggest factor at deciding rank for keywords, while content and keyword page grading can say great things, it always comes down to backlinks it seems. Even our DA is better or equal, Why would this be?