Moz had a similar caching issue one week ago (/ugc/ content cached instead of /blog/ pages). They posted this question on Webmaster forum - may be the answers can help you find a solution (there was an answer from John Mu as well).

Dirk

It's impossible to know - Google keeps the images cached on their server to increase performance when displaying them in the search results. It's only when people click on the "view image" that they get to your site. These views you could probably check in the server logs.

Don't try to redirect these images back to the "original" page when called from Image Search. It's something Google disapproves and again could lead to a manual action (check http://www.thesempost.com/google-manual-actions-issued-for-image-mismatch/ and https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/3394137?hl=en)

Dirk

The solution you propose is not going to work. Hreflang is used to identify different language versions of the same page (with minor variations). This implies that each page has a one to one relation with it's equivalent in the other languages.

This isn't the case on your site - the category pages on your US site do not correspond with the category pages on the en-gb site - you can't use the hreflang here (1 page US = 3 pages in en-gb).

You could do this on homepage, product pages and all pages that are more or less equivalent in all languages.

Please also note that hreflang is reciprocal - if you have following hreflang's

you have to put this code on both pages - on http://www.brandname.com/en-gb/product-a & https://www.BRANDNAMEUSA.com/product-a  - it's no use to only put it on the en-gb version as you currently do.

I also have doubts about "es-mx" for a site which is in entirely in English.

Dirk

3/4% is already quite a good rate for image search results. By definition image search is quite visual - and people click on the image they like most. Given that a lot more results are displayed in Image search as long as you are in the first 4/5 rows clickrates will be quite similar.

One exception - if Google includes a image strip in the normal SERP's you will get click rates of 30/40%.

Try to rank for different kind of images to cater for each kind of taste. I tried the search query and your site was ranked quite high (1st / 5th position) but compared to the images they were a bit fuzzy/not really sharp.

Certainly don't put very visible watermarks/overlayers - this will completely erase your images from the results (people don't like to click on them show Google doesn't like to show them)

Dirk

For the redirect check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21417263/htaccess-add-remove-trailing-slash-from-url :

Right below the "RewriteEngine On" line in your .htaccess file, add:

<code>RewriteCond%{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteRule^(.*[^/])$ /$1/[L,R=301]</code>

You also have redirect chains on your site:

Example page: http://www.youpack.com.au/shipping-container-sales-commercial/ links to  http://www.youpack.com.au/?p=564 301 redirects to http://www.youpack.com.au/the-low-down-on-self-pack-removals/ 301' redirects to http://www.youpack.com.au/stamp-the-low-down-on-self-pack-removals-2/ = error 404

Dirk

Point 6 seams to be the most important one - make sure they update all the logo's (most of the results I get seem to be affiliated with your company - so this shouldn't be to difficult to do).

Example: http://drellen.com/realself-reviews/ - the logo is changed in the body - but the bigger logo is still the old one.

On your site - rename your logo to real-self-logo.png & make the alt "Real Self Logo" to make it very obvious that the image = your logo

Dirk

Hi

Google is being nice & is doing exactly what you ask it to do.

Example: http://www.customlogocases.com/custom-motorola-phone-cases-printed-logo/ - in the source you put:

rel="canonical" href="http://www.customlogocases.com/custom-motorola-phone-cases-printed-logo/?limit=all"/>

So - you ask google to show http://www.customlogocases.com/custom-motorola-phone-cases-printed-logo/?limit=all in the search results rather than http://www.customlogocases.com/custom-motorola-phone-cases-printed-logo/

Update the canonical & remove the limit=all & the problem will be solved.

Dirk