Thanks for your help David - I apologize for my delayed response.

We have a category page that lists products. We have parameters and the default value is to limit the page to display 9 products. If the user wishes, they can view 15 products or 30 products on the same page. The parameter is ?limit=9 or ?limit=15 and so on. Google is recognizing this as duplicate meta tags and meta descriptions via HTML Suggestions. I have a couple questions.

1. What should be my goal? Is my goal to have Google crawl the page with 9 items or crawl the page with all items in the category?

In Search Console, the first part of setting up a URL parameter says "Does this parameter change page content seen by the user?". In my opinion, I think the answer is Yes.

Then, when I select how the parameter affects page content, I assume I'd choose Narrows because it's either narrowing or expanding the number of items displayed on the page.

2. When setting up my URL Parameters in Search Console, do I want to select Every URL or just let Googlebot decide? I'm torn because when I read about Every URL, it says this setting could result in Googlebot unnecessarily crawling duplicate content on your site (it's already doing that). When reading further, I begin to second guess the Narrowing option. Now I'm at a loss on what to do.

Any advice or suggestions will be helpful! Thanks.

Thanks Dirk -

I will try out your suggestions and let you know my results.  I appreciate your help.

Hi Dirk -

It's actually another website, not included in my profile.  
The page is: http://www.1-800-shaved-ice.com/simply-a-blast-snow-cone-machine.html

I did the same optimization with some other pages, and we are ranked number 1 on the first page.  These are the pages that have done extremely well.
http://www.1-800-shaved-ice.com/c-hc-8e.html
http://www.1-800-shaved-ice.com/swanblocshav.html

Thanks for your feedback

For a long time, we had terrible on page SEO. No keyword targeting, no meta titles or descriptions. Just a brief 2-4 sentence product description and shipping information. Strangely, we weren't ranking too bad. For one product, we were ranking on page 1 of Google for a certain keyword.

My goal to reach the top of page 1 would be easy (or so I thought).

I have now optimized this page to rank better for the same keyword. I have a 276 word description with detailed specifications and shipping information. I have a strong title and meta description with keywords and modifers. I have also included a video demonstration, additional photos and an PDF of the owners manual.

In my eyes, the page is 100% better than it ever was. In the eyes of MOZ, it's better also. I've got an A with the On-Page Grader.

Why is this page now ranking on page 8 of Google? What have I done wrong? What can I do to correct it?