We have implemented Schema markup for Reviews on product pages.  All these pages check out in the Markup Checker Tool in Webmaster Tools, but out in the wild only about 50% of them are actually showing the Review markup in SERPs.

Example of a page showing Review markup successfully:

http://www.cloud9living.com/los-angeles/drive-a-stock-car

And example of a page not showing markup in the SERPs:

http://www.cloud9living.com/las-vegas/race-a-ferrari

Any ideas on why some SERPs show markup and others do not?

Thanks!

Significantly changing the Page Title and H1 is working.  Second page now indexing after not indexing for some time.  Probably shoulda thought of that a long time ago but that noindex tag sidetracked me!

Good point.  But why then would they continue to not index a month after manual submission?

Also, historically indexation happened very quickly on this site (less than 24 hours) so that's why I think something else is afoot here.  And it has been like 6 weeks... which I don't think makes sense for a site with this level of domain authority.

Hey Bradley,

Thanks for the response.  Yes, I had manually fetched a few of these pages about a month back and that didn't change indexation so I thought it was a dead end.  However, one I tried again this morning suddenly indexed and it just so happened to also have had its Page Title and H1 tag changed to be significantly more unique than they were previously so I am wondering if that is problem.  I am currently running a test with another page that I manually submitted a month ago but without updating Page Title/H1 and now I have resubmitted with changed info.

We'll see if that does the trick.

Will let you know.

Hey All,

We discovered an issue where new product pages on our site were not getting indexed because a "noindex" tag was inadvertently being added to section when those pages were created.

We removed the noindex tag in late April and some of the pages that had not been previously indexed are now showing up, but others are still not getting indexed and I'd appreciate some help on why this could be.

Here is an example of a page that was not in the index but is now showing after removal of noindex:

http://www.cloud9living.com/san-diego/gaslamp-quarter-food-tour

And here is an example of a page that is still not showing in the index:

http://www.cloud9living.com/atlanta/race-a-ferrari

UPDATE: The above page is now showing after I manually submitted it in WMT.  I had previously submitted another page like a month ago and it was still not indexing so I thought the manual submission was a dead end.  However, it just so happens that the above URL just had its Page Title and H1 updated to something more specific and less duplicative so I am currently running a test to see if that's the problem with these pages not indexing.  Will update this soon.

Any suggestions?  Thanks!

Number one question: has your organic traffic also fallen off a cliff?  Go to Google Analytics and answer this question immediately.

Just because the Moz rank tracker shows your rankings slipping doesn't necessarily mean the keywords that you told it to track are the same keywords that drive all the traffic and/or revenue for your site.

Hopefully you'll find that your organic traffic is holding steady and the keywords you thought were important enough to put into the Moz rank tracker aren't the same ones that drive traffic for your site.

HOWEVER....

If you find that your organic traffic has ALSO fallen off a cliff then you've got bigger problems.  Without knowing the site or anything about what you did in the past couple weeks my first gut instinct is that all those duplicate pages you took down had good natural links to them and were therefore the ones ranking for your keywords.

You should have 301 redirected or canonicalized those pages rather than removing them completely.  I honestly don't know what would happen if you just put them back up and pretended like nothing happened, then got to work properly redirecting them to the pages you want to rank.

So I would recommend the following steps:

1. Consult Google Analytics (see above)

2. Plug your site into Open SIte Explorer. Look for links to pages you have since taken down.  If you find lots of them then you know what your problem is.

3. Consult with someone with more technical expertise than me about putting those pages back up and then properly redirecting them

Hi Janelle,

When I copy and paste the URL you supplied above http://www.robots.com/applications/abb/panasonic/robots

I get a page to come up.  So this page does exist somewhere.  Even if you can't navigate to it from the standard nav bar on your site it may be linked in your sitemap or in other dynamically generated places.

Looks like you need to map out your URLs and find the places where weird ones are still getting indexed and clean them up.

It looks to me (and all I did was a cursory 5 minute search so take my thoughts with a grain of salt) that your site is generating Page Titles dynamically.

So for example the pages in this category http://www.daytripfinder.co.uk/theme-parks/east-midlands returns the same page title for each sub category page but with the location changed dynamically, e.g.:

Category Page = Looking for a theme park in East Midlands? DayTripFinder

Sub Category Page = Looking for a theme park in Derby? DayTripFinder

BUT

If for any reason a user gets an error navigating any of these pages then you get served a standard error page that reads this:

Unfortunately there is no listing at this web address. Trying using the search form above by name or searching by location/postcode.

And when that standard error page is served the URL stays the same but the Page Title defaults to the Page Title of the error page, not the page title of the category page.  All of the examples you list above served me the above error message.

So you're getting a duplicate content error messages because both the error message version and the regular version have the same URL.

Although, when I do a site operator with intitle I don't find tons of indexed category pages with the weird page title you list above, even though that's what I'm getting in the examples you cited.  Which is weird.

But my guess is that it has something to do with how you serve your error message, although I would consult someone with more technical expertise to verify.

Thanks for the suggestions Dana!

And DON'T SAY AMAZON!!!!

I'm looking for beautiful examples of sites that are content rich without distracting customers from converting.

Thanks Phil!

I was able to talk him into doing the much simpler SEO-friendly embed Wistia offers and just give me a text area in admin where I can drop Wistia embed code after I tweak the settings in SuperEmbed.

I appreciate you taking the time to respond!

We have created a video for a category page with the goal of building links to the page and improving the conversion rate of visitors to the page.  This category is Christmas oriented so we want to get the video dropped in ASAP.

Unfortunately there was a mixup with our developer and he created a lightbox pop-up to display the video on the category page.  I'm concerned this will hurt our ability to get the video indexed in Google.

Here was his response.  Is what he says here true?

"With the video originally being in lightbox the iFrame Embed was enough since the video can't be on the page, it would have to be hidden on the page which is ignored by Google.  The SEO would be derived from modifying the video sitemap to define the category page as the HTML page for the Wistia video and Google will make the association. The sitemap did all the heavy lifting, the schema markup did not come till later so it had no additional affect on Google other then to re-enforce the sitemap."

Thanks for your help!

Totally agree.  It looks like they even post multiple times per day.  With that kind of content generation they make sure they are finding the pieces that connect with their customers.

Nice suggestion, thanks!  Their blog is impressive and it looks like they have the whole company bought into contributing.

Thanks!

Thanks Brad!

Sorry for the confusion...  I was looking for an ecommerce site that nails their blogging efforts!

Any ideas on that front?

One of my favorites is Backcountry.com's The Goat (http://thegoat.backcountry.com/)

Thanks for the contribution danatanseo....

I need to clarify - I meant ecommerce sites that have awesome blogs to support their online marketing efforts.

Sorry about that!

Do you have any suggestions in that department?

Thanks!

Have a few favorites but would like to get some other people's opinions on some ecommerce sites that are doing blogging RIGHT.

Who is supporting their online marketing with an amazing blog?

One of my favorites is Backcountry.com's The Goat (http://thegoat.backcountry.com/)

Let me know!