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Yesterday, I've written a support mail to bing webmastertools. Surprisingly I got a very comprehensive answer within hours! Thumbs up!

The answer: "Yes, you are right. Since this lazy load feature is a 3^rd party application, as initial troubleshooting steps and to isolate the issue, please try to turn off this feature on your end."

Well, I try to turn off the lazy load for the specific page and see what's happening.

Best wishes,
Georg.

Hi,

test google versus bing:

I am searching results for

site:schicksal.com Freitag, der 13.

Bing, organic: http://goo.gl/bfXAU0 - article found on 1st position
Bing, image search: http://goo.gl/EXDSdv - no search results

Google, organic: http://goo.gl/VIi5C6 - article found on 1st position
Google, image: http://goo.gl/m5SRjA - main article image is found on 1st position

I've done some other quick checks with Bing: The big images are NOT found at the image search, only the teaser images which are on the overview pages.

So, can anybody confirm this behavior? Do Bing have a problem with the lazy load of google.pagespeed?

Best wishes,

Georg.

Just tried to use the Google Webmaster Tool "fetch as googlebot" - the lazy loaded images where shown on the screenshot.

But the question remains: Is it possible that the google bot is not seeing the images for the ranking because the are loaded with javascript?

Hi,

we are using the apache module of google pagespeed. It works really great, helps a lot. But today I've asked me one question:

Does the "lazy load" feature for images harm the ranking?

The module reworks the page to load the images only if the are visible at the screen. Is this behavior also triggered by the google bot? Or are the images invisible for google?

Any expirience about that?

Best wishes,

Georg.

Hi,

we have some articles like this:

http://www.schicksal.com/Orakel/Freitag-13

The main image has a width of 100% and a height of 100%. Today, I've discovered that GWT Instant Preview has some troubles with rendering the page.

We have CSS rules to deliver the image with the right dimensions. If a bot like google is not sending any screen height / width we assume the screen size is 2560x1440.

Does this harm the ranking of the page? (Content starts below the fold/image) What is a "default" screen size for google? How do they determine if something is "above the fold"?

Any tips or ideas?

Best wishes,

Georg.

Hi Mike,

wow, what a comprehensive reply, thanks a lot!

I think it's time for a new SEO cheat sheet

Best wishes,

Georg.

Hi folks,

I was asked to write a short top 10 SEO list for editors. My search returned outdated results and SEO is changing fast these days…

So, here is my little survey: What are the best settings for these most important things:

1. Title tag: How many characters / words? Best keyword positions? Best tricks?
2. Meta description: How many characters / words? Best keyword positions? Best tricks?
3. Meta keywords: Use them? How many?
4. H1 tag: How many characters / words? Best keyword positions? Best tricks?
5. H2-H6 tags: How many characters? Best keyword positions? Best tricks?
6. Image alternative text: How many characters / words? Best tricks?
7. Text length: Minimum, maximum? What’s better:  1 long article or split an article in several pages?
8. How much links within an article? Min? Max?
9. Usage of keywords within links?
10. Your favorite SEO tip?

I would love to hear your thoughts

Best wishes,
Georg.

Still no progress. So we have decided to rename our main urls and run into the next mess, have a look here: http://www.seo-stories.com/post/31927940673/google-penguin-penalty-duplicate-content-problem

Hi Andy,

no, thats not the case at my site.

Best wishes,

Georg.

Hi Peter,

thanks for your answer!

Well, it's even more complicated!

It's an astrology calendar with planet aspect data for each day starting from 1900-01-01 to 2099-12-31, so there are around 73,000 pages, it's a big database.

People are searching for a date and the planet aspects. So I need the "old pages" and the future pages in the index.

People are also searching their birthday and want to know their zodiac. My calendar is providing this info.

This is an example:
http://www.schicksal.com/horoskop/tageshoroskop/1951/09/10

The best thing is to do nothing at the moment I think. The alternativ is to cut the content of the current day from the main page and let the user click a button which redirects to the current day page. But this is not user friendly and I will do nothing at them moment.

Any other idea would be great

Best wishes,

Georg.

Hi Alan,

if it would be that easy...

I will write a blog post about all our seo activities in the past years and the reason why we did this. I would ask you again after you know all details...

@ Rand: Thanks! Well, it took 3h to have a domain, a website and got alltogether into the google index... I wrote a separate blog post about that

Best wishes,

Georg.

Hi Grant,

you are not alone...

My site lost 50% traffic. I've already created a question: http://www.seomoz.org/q/lost-50-google-traffic-in-one-day-panic

The reasons are - probably:

a) over optimization of your site

b) bad links from outer web space...

c) bad anchor texts

I am still investigating why our site was hit that hard.

I've created a new website: http://www.seo-stories.com for all pengiun victims.

Ich hope that helped a bit.

Best wishes,

Georg.

Hi girls + guys,

a site of us were hit by a google update or a google penalty. We have lost 50% google traffic in one day (25th april, 2012). (Total visitors in average per day: 6k, yesterday: 3k)

It's a german website, so I think google.de (germany) was updated. Our rankings in google.at (austria) are also affected, but it's not that bad as in google.de.

We have not done any specific on page seo activities in the last two months. GWT doesn't have any message for us (no critical errors).

After my first analyse I can say this:

• google has indexed 17k pages (thats fine)
• we are on 1st place with our domain name
• the last three days, the google traffic went up (+20%), but yesterday it was 50% below average (so -70%)
• last week we had a very good day, we had twice the traffic than normal, but this calmed down the following days
• we have lost number no. 1 places at two high traffic keywords. We had these no 1 rankings for years. We have been outranked by two of our competitors, but they have not done any onpage changes.
• We have lost a lot of positions at a lot of keywords. But there are also keywords which moved up.
• We have good content, useres are visiting 5 pages in average.
• No virus, no hacker (no hidden cloaking page)
• it's an old domain (2002)
• Lot of (good) inbound links
• Lot's of likes, g+. Good twitter activty.

So, all in all I think it's more likely a ranking algo change than a penalty (a penalty for what reason?)

My specific question(s): Is there any "check list" which could help me to find out the reason for this mess?

What is the best strategy to regain the positions? New HTML code? New On page seo? (seomoz grades most of our important pages an A)

Any idea would be appreciated!

Best wishes,
Georg.

No, we have no paid links. We have written several articles which were sent to press agencies over the years. Blogs, newspapers, other sites etc. are linking our content.

Hi Matt,

thank you for your advices! I will have a look at Rands whiteboard. So your suggestion is to reformat / restructure the html code to get out of this?

Best wishes,

Georg.

Google provides a form where you can them that your site was hit by error: http://searchengineland.com/penguin-update-peck-your-site-by-mistake-googles-got-a-form-for-that-119698