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Thanks for the responses

That was my hunch...appreciate the help

Kaylie,

I had something fairly similar happen to my site (although my situation is different than yours is for a few reasons).

(There was a discussion about this a few weeks ago in the Q&A)

What I noticed was that (I assume that your talking about Google rankings) my link profile was diminished pretty significantly according Webmaster Tools.  A few others had the same thing happen to their site, I don't really know exactly what happened,  but slowly yet surely the link number is going back up.  If that is the issue I can dig up those Q&A's...

A shot in the dark but it might be worth taking a look at...

Hi,

I have an e-commerce site hosted on Volusion currently the rel canonical link for the homepage points to www.store.com/default.asp.  I spoke with the Volusion support people and they told me that whether the canonical link points to store.com/default.asp or store.com does not really matter as long as there is a canonical version.  I thought this sounded odd, so looked at other websites hosted on volusion and some sites canonicalize to default.asp and others .com.  (volusion.com canonicalizes to .com fwiw).

The question is...I have a majority of my external links going to www.store.com , and since that page has default.asp as it canonical version, am I losing link juice from those incoming links?  If so, should I change the canonical link? If I do what are the potential issues/penalties?

Hopefully this question makes sense and thanks in advance.

Hi

I have read a number of ppl suggest that the best way to learn SEO is to build a low stakes site and experiment and measure how the effects of those experiments.  Agree? Disagree? Anybody have success doing this? Anybody find it a waste of time? Finally, I know Code Academy, what are some other good resources?

Thanks

Thanks for the help Brian and Irving.

In what ways do those reviews help with SEO? Do they help with long-tail KW also?

On my e-commerce site, I have user reviews that cycle in the header section of my category pages.  They appear/cycle via a snippet of code that the review program provided me with.

My question is...b/c the actual user-generated content is not in the page content does the google-bot not see this content? Does it not treat the page as having fresh content even though the reviews are new? Does the bot only see the code that provides the reviews?

Thanks in advance.  Hopefully this question is clear enough.

Jason,

Thanks for the update.

Yeah it seems pretty clear that it's a bug at this point.  Not fun while it lasts though

It could be...I guess the only way to verify is to wait and see if those links reappear in GWT then measuring traffic/ranking data before and after

Alan,

My only questions are, (if GWT reports links that "count")

What would account for some sites reporting loss of ranking and other sites reporting no loss of ranking?

If this were simply a cosmetic change within GWT than no one would see change in ranking b/c deleted links didn't count to begin with, right?

Unless Google has changed what links "count".

Jason,

Thanks for the quick response and informative link.  I hope you are right, it does seem like you are, but we will have to wait and see in the meantime.   And I'll have to just keep on looking for other traffic sources.  Best of luck

My site has been affected by this issue (loss of links) as well, with pretty decent hits to rankings and traffic, in particular my main keywords.  Generally speaking how long/what does it take to take reach some consensus as to whether it is an update or a just a temporary hiccup?

Great, thanks a lot.  That makes sense as to why I can get an on-page 'A' score yet ultimately could be doing more harm than good.

I am not quite sure I totally understand the concept of keyword cannibalization.  I have seen the SEO Moz Snowboard example... I tried to apply the concept but the on-page ranking sees a category page of mine with KW cannibalization.  By the way, I still get an A for the targeted KW.

I have an e-commerce site,  one category page targets 'wool sweaters' and a product page for example is : 'chunky-knit wool turtleneck sweater' (there are 8 products total in this category all are flagged Cannibalizers).  I didn't think KWC would be an issue...ranking seems to be effected judging ranking for other category pages w/o KW cannibalization issues.

So, my question I guess is KW cannibalization really a big deal?  What is taken  into account when judging KW cannibalization.  Title Tags? URLs?

Thanks in advance

Hey Ben,

This post immediately popped in my mind:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/mission-imposserpble-establishing-clickthrough-rates

Although it is over a year old, it is an  interesting study.  The download available from slingshot is good too...Maybe not what you're looking for, but I just looked at it so I thought I'd pass it on.

Thank you very much for the quick response, I will take a look at that solution

Greetings from a first time poster and SEO noob...

I hope that this question makes sense...

I have a small e-commerce site,  I have had Roger-bot crawl the site and I have fixed all errors and warnings that Volusion will allow me to fix.

Then I checked Webmaster Tools, HTML improvements section and the Google-bot sees different dupe. title tag issues that Roger-bot did not.  so

A few weeks back I changed the title tag for a  product, and GWT says that I have duplicate title tags  but there is only one live page for the product.  GWT lists the dupe. title tags, but when I click on each  they all lead to the same live page.  I'm confused, what pages are these other title tags referring to?  Does Google have more than one page for that product indexed due to me changing the title tag when the page had a different URL?

1. Does this question make sense? 2) Is this issue a problem? 3) What can I do to fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Jeff