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YOAST SEO plugin is one of the best SEO plugins, you can manage OG meta and force rewrite rules on custom pages

It's easy to point your finger at an algorithm change when your website drops however most of the time it can resolved by troubleshooting. An old video which still has the foundations of a good troubleshooting guide can be found via Matt Cutts on WMT YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx04qNrCbnk

Sure they can, it goes back to the days of articles where they would have an author box at the bottom. If you want to become known then I would try and link it to places where one can read more about the author such as a LinkedIn profile. It can become tedious listing all the authors credentials in the box of every article, it's best they give a snippet to sell them linking to a better source of information about them, be that a LinkedIn profile or their own website.

Google likes to dominate industries but the work around on this one is relatively easy compared to YouTube comments.

Personally I would say this is a branding issue, if your logo looks like that then try to incorporate it within your links however do you think a customer would write it like that? I don't think this is an SEO issue, it's a branding question.

If it's not manual (from Google Webmaster Tools) and the website remains unchanged and the drop was sudden then this will be an algorithm punishment. Or the industry has become more saturated, how did you generate backlinks to the website? was there any on going SEO efforts?  what time did it drop?

I wonder if Moz understands and follows the Robots.txt file? I know at one point they never, back in the day when I used Moz most of my errors came from URL's which were hidden by robots which would not of caused errors for Google.

& what your saying Oren makes perfect sense if it's correct. Why would they want to crawl aggregated content.

Hi,

Firstly it could be that Open Site Explorer has not had time to pick them up, if it's years old then let's not forget the OSE manually crawls the internet and is not Google's crawler meaning there will be sections of the web which won't be crawled by Moz.

If it's old then there may be no links pointing to these pages which would not give OSE a reason to crawl them, certainly if it's years. Don't worry about it, a missing link on OSE is one less your competitors can find I had a similar issue with a few links from BOTW but in time it updated and works fine but Open Site Explorer is not flawless.

Hi Ruben,

As it's been sometime since you were offered the new URL and you lost your image then it could potentially be an issue on Google's side. Let's not forget the social network is relatively new and has had it's fair share of issues.

Just an update for anyone who may of lost their picture on Google+, I would try and re upload it but rename it and possible adjust the size slightly to show Google it's a new image. I've had my image before the new URL structure and after and everything has worked fine to date

Personally I would do the structure you have mentioned above but refrain from using the geo targeting tool but it could get messy in the event of having UK and US versions?

Personally I would say this is a branding issue, if your logo looks like that then try to incorporate it within your links however do you think a customer would write it like that? I don't think this is an SEO issue, it's a branding question.

Personally I would do the structure you have mentioned above but refrain from using the geo targeting tool but it could get messy in the event of having UK and US versions?

Hi,

Firstly it could be that Open Site Explorer has not had time to pick them up, if it's years old then let's not forget the OSE manually crawls the internet and is not Google's crawler meaning there will be sections of the web which won't be crawled by Moz.

If it's old then there may be no links pointing to these pages which would not give OSE a reason to crawl them, certainly if it's years. Don't worry about it, a missing link on OSE is one less your competitors can find I had a similar issue with a few links from BOTW but in time it updated and works fine but Open Site Explorer is not flawless.

If it's not manual (from Google Webmaster Tools) and the website remains unchanged and the drop was sudden then this will be an algorithm punishment. Or the industry has become more saturated, how did you generate backlinks to the website? was there any on going SEO efforts?  what time did it drop?

YOAST SEO plugin is one of the best SEO plugins, you can manage OG meta and force rewrite rules on custom pages

Sure they can, it goes back to the days of articles where they would have an author box at the bottom. If you want to become known then I would try and link it to places where one can read more about the author such as a LinkedIn profile. It can become tedious listing all the authors credentials in the box of every article, it's best they give a snippet to sell them linking to a better source of information about them, be that a LinkedIn profile or their own website.

Google likes to dominate industries but the work around on this one is relatively easy compared to YouTube comments.