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Are you asking about how to set up Google Authorship? Here is a link that may be of assistance - https://plus.google.com/authorship.

Hi Justin not sure if this will be of help but have you thought of using Klout (klout.com) or Twitter Grader (tweet.grader.com) by Hubspot?

I found this in Webmaster Tools Support which may help:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334

It includes best practises for site links and it also explains how and where to denote urls as Rebekah mentioned above.

To clarify are you asking about site links or are you asking when Google Custom Search is utilized within your site it is only returning the contact and about us pages?

If site links is your query:

When I type Mycarhelpline in google search the following site links appear:

Cars Discount Schemes

Why Mycar Helpline

About Us

Contact Us

Terma and Conditions

New Car

If Google Search is utilized within your site:

I tried searching mycarhelpline and the custom search engine returned 10 pages of content.

p.s. you may have to cick the back arrow to go back to the Funco page.

When you are on the Funco page change your log in to your brand FB page by clicking on the drop down arrow in the top right of the page to the right of home. Then proceed to post.

You may want to look at using the proper markup, here is a link to schema.org - http://schema.org/VideoObject

Do you have a Google custom search engine on your site? Usually when I run across things like this I search within my site and it helps narrow down where to look. In fact, something like this popped up the other day and I was able to find the page utilizing search.

If you utilize All In One SEO, could it be the SEO Title field?

I just searched some of your pages and I think I may have found it, if you choose Store Locations, click on the individual store locations below the pink search button, ie Charlotte then do a "view search" of the page and search "store locater" within that page it will show the use of "store locater"

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I checked about 7 different cities and the coding is the same. Not sure if this is the root of the problem but hopefully it will be a starting point for you.

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Roberto thank you very much for the resource, by the way am I handling it all wrong so far based on the information I provided in my question? I'm trying to get a starting point of what I might be doing right or wrong.

When I first started blogging I hired a company to design and develop my website. They provided SEO training which I've followed religiously but now I'm starting to wonder (after researching more and more about SEO) if by following these guidelines I may be placing myself in jeopardy.

I write a blog about desserts. I was told that my SEO title should be different than my blog post title and I should incorporate a few different keywords in the title, write a meta description inserting a few keywords, and also attach 10 keywords, ie here is a typical post:

Dark Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate Cherry Ganache - post title

Moist Chocolate Cake-Chocolate Ganache Cake-Chocolate Cherry Cake - SEO title

Find recipe for quick and easy, moist Dark Chocolate Cake topped with Chocolate Cherry Ganache & fresh cherries & other Chocolate Desserts at Grace's Sweet Life.

how to make chocolate cake, best chocolate cake, chocolate cake from scratch, best chocolate cake recipe, moist chocolate cake, simple chocolate cake, easy chocolate cake, homemade chocolate cake, chocolate cherry cake, chocolate fudge cake, chocolate ganache recipe

I've come to realize that I really don't know how to keyword search (not so much how to search for phrases but how to implement them properly) and I'm wondering if there's such a thing as "hiring a trainer or consultant" to put me on the appropriate path for keyword research.

Good Morning Stuart

Thank goodness, I'm not losing my mind, this is exactly what I thought and this is probably the reason why I am receiving rank on these paginated pages and probably the reason for duplicate content. I think I will approach the new designer/developer group about this and have them change it in the new design. I'm either not explaining it properly to my current developer or he's not understanding how it works. To his defence he did mention switching to the Yoast plugin in too. I am a bit fearful to change much of anything right now because I finally returned to search and I haven't completely recovered yet like I mentioned above plus from what I've read whenever you introduce a new design you could experience issues with rank. I'm hoping that won't be an issue but I don't want to muddy the waters either.

Thank you very much Stuart, you've been a great help!

Thank you so much for joining in. I am so confused now because this is the reply from my developer:

Hi Grace, below are views of a post and a page. You already have  the prev, next and canonicalhere is a post

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|   | <link <span>rel</link <span>='prev' title='Vanilla-Coconut Panna Cotta with Pomegranate Jelly' href=' />

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|   | <link <span>rel</link <span>='next' title='Chocolate-Hazelnut Spritz Cookies' href=' ' /> |
|   | <meta <span>name</meta <span>="generator" content="WordPress 3.4.1" /> |
|   | <link <span>rel</link <span>='shortlink' href=' ' /> |
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|   | <meta <span>name</meta <span>="description" content="Martha Stewart's easy, foolproof Holiday Fudge. Chocolate Marshmallow Fudge and White Chocolate Fudge from one easy fudge recipe that takes only 10 minutes to make." /> |
|   | <meta <span>name</meta <span>="keywords" content="easy holiday recipes, easy fudge recipes, easy chocolate fudge recipe, white chocolate fudge, homemade fudge recipe, simple fudge recipe, fudge candy recipes, white chocolate recipes, chocolate fudge recipes, dark chocolate fudge" /> |
|   | <link <span>rel</link <span>="canonical" href=" " />
Here is a page

<link<span>el</link<span>='prev'title='About'ref=' //>

<link <span>rel</link <span>="canonical" href="" />

I've removed the links because I'm not sure how links are handled here on the forum and if it's allowed. Can you still get a sense of the coding without the link to the pages?

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Hi Georg, let me begin by stating I am new to SEOmoz and quite a newbie when it comes to SEO but I too was hit terribly at the end of April. I'm not sure if my situation could also be the reason for your issues. I thought I would throw it in the mix just in case because through my search for answers I found many others were experiencing the same issues and because of the algorithm changes most were faced with the question "Did I get hit by Google?" My site dropped out of search, pages where I once appeared on the first page were either on page 55 or I couldn't find them or I gave up looking after page 60. I would search for exact post title and either I wouldn't appear or my homepage would appear. I reached out to my web developer and he insisted that it was probably a penalization from Google. I didn't believe it could be true because I never participated in any type of link programs, I didn't know what cloaking meant and I couldn't redirect a url even if I wanted to. Then I received a crawl error for this page /wpp-app.php/service. I reached out to the developer again and he stated that Google should not be crawling that page. I remembered the developer had performed quite a few plugin updates and I think there may have also been a WordPress update around the same time. Through my search I ran across the SEOmoz keyword analysis tool, when I tried to enter one of my keywords it wouldn't return a report. After trying several keyword density tools and not being able to run a report I looked into my page code and I found that my All In One SEO plugin was no longer loading properly and apparently it had a conflict with WP Super Cache. It started to make sense because at one time Google would return my generated meta description whenever I entered a keyword into search now they were generating a snippet. Also none of my SEO titles were displaying. I also found that my sitemap was not updating properly. That's when I ran across this thread - http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/o9VYAneofdM As it turns out there was a problem with the plugin (Google XML Sitemaps) already generating a virtual robots.txt. Also I found with the updates changes had been made to my .htaccess code. In fact, Antonio, the WP htaccess Control plugin developer jumped in to help me (thank God). He changed my robots.txt to add blocking for the /wpp-app.php/service. Within two weeks my pages started to return in search, in fact the other day I started searching for each of my posts and they all seem to have returned to where they once were. I was very concerned because none of my posts published from May 12 on had page rank but Stuart Kerr (a member here) told me that the page rank toolbar tool doesn't update daily but a new update should be coming through soon. I am hoping that each of the new pages will rank once the update is in place. Through all of the researching I decided to reach out to Google to inquire about a manual penalization and thankfully they returned with "no manual site penalization". It's taken from the beginning of May up until just a couple of days ago to get this issue cleared up. I may be totally off base and I apologize if I am but is it possible that you could be experiencing the same? I've read through all the comments above but unfortunately I don't understand most of the discussion but I would feel terrible if I didn't mention my experience just in case it could be the answer to your problem.

Hi Stuart

I didn't realize the toolbar was only updated every few months, I'm assuming from the content in the link the next update should be tomorrow. The first post without rank is dated May 12. Makes more sense now. They are all indexed which is wonderful. I can't get over that the rel next and prev are not on the site because my developer insisted they were, hmm will have to look into this closer. I am going to talk to my new designer/developer team about switching to Yoast. The plugin appears to have a lot more functionality and I think I read in one of the SEOmoz posts that the gentleman that wrote the post switched as well. Looks like it may be the way to go. I wish I understood SEO more. I've joined SEOmoz in hopes that I can learn how to do keyword search, it's the one area that I am completely clueless. I am attaching keywords but I haven't a clue how to do it properly. Thank you so much for you help! I apologize for all the questions. All the best!

Hi Stuart

Thank you Stuart. I spoke to my developer because I was concerned, I couldn't see where it was but he said it was in place. Stuart I watched this video by Google - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html. If I'm understanding correctly, rel & prev and canonical should be set up so all the rank goes to the main page, i.e. all the paginated content from my main page should be pointing to my main page, right? I'm noticing in the seomoz reports that each paginated page has rank, it shouldn't right? This will also eliminate the duplicate content, right?

I am presently using All In One SEO and I am terrified to switch because I've been using the Title, Description and Keywords religiously, will my data switch over to Yoast or do I need to add everything back in manually? I've been trying to find a way to pull a report with all my keyword data (to use to generate reports in SEOmoz but I haven't been able to find how to do it in WordPress. Plus if I do make the switch I want to have a backup of the keywords just in case anything goes wonky.

I should say I am in the middle of a site redesign and I am trying to get all the code up and in order before the new site goes live. I've just gone through the worst 3 months, one day all of my posts disappeared from search and it's take me all this time to get back into the search results. I think for the most part we found all the issues. My developer performed a bunch of plugin updates somewhere around the end of April beginning of May which set off a ton of issues. My developer was convinced I had been penalized by Google but I insisted that it couldn't be the issue because to be frank I haven't a clue how to do anything underhanded nor would I. I finally reached out to Google and they stated I hadn't been penalized. I think it had something to do with robots.txt and .htaccess. I'm just happy I reappear in results. (I hired my hosting company and the wonderful gentleman who created the WP htaccess Control plugin, Antonio helped me)The only thing that is still a mystery is why haven't any of my posts since that time earned any page rank, very odd. Hopefully with a little more time I will see some change, crawled pages have increased and Google is crawling quite regularly again. I fell out of search at the most inopportune time because my new cookbook hit the shelves in May. The blogosphere has been very supportive and I've had so many reviewing the book and linking to me but I think all of those links are lost because my issues were during the the time everyone is posting, do you think at some point Google will find those links?

Hi Stuart

I believe my pages do have the rel=next and rel=prev but I think from the seomoz reports it appears the paginated content is ranked and I wondering if it's better for the main page to receive all the rank, am I making sense. This is all new to me and I'm trying to understand the best process for paginated content and also how to handle the duplicate content the pagination creates.

I have the WP-Pagination plugin and I am wondering how to handle duplicate content issues and what's best for SEO.

My developer initially downloaded the plugin to speed up loading for the home page. Now my home page has 21 pages of paginated content. But the pagination continues with each of my categories as well.

Should I be placing a canonical reference to my home page, or category main page?

My site name is gracessweetlife (dot) com