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When you run this page through the rich snippet testing tool, it says the page doesn't contain authorship markup.

Problem is, a look at the code shows rel = author has been properly added, and the author has listed the domain as a site he contributes to. 

Hopefully someone in the forum can tell me what I'missing? Why isn't authorship effective here?

Thanks Alan,

Sure, here is the site map: http://www.nationalbankruptcyforum.com/sitemap_index.xml

As far as noindexing pages is concerned, I always use noindex, follow, but choose to noindex category and author archive pages as I think they can cause duplicate content/ Panda issues.

John

After upgrading design and theme on a relatively high traffic wordpress site, I created an XML site map through Yoast SEO since WP Engine didn't allow the old XML site map plugin I was using.

A site:www.mysite.com search shows Google is indexing about 1,100 pages on my site, yet the XML site map I submitted shows "458 URLs submitted and 467 URLs indexed."

These numbers are about 1/2 of what they should be. My old site map had about 1,100 URLs and 965 or so indexed (used noindex on some low value pages.)

Any ideas as to what may be wrong?

All,

I manage a site that unfortunately crashed due to a server issue in late October for about 3 hours.

Prior to the crash, traffic was the best it had ever been in the 3+ year history of the site. As you might expect, since the crash traffic has gone gradually down and is now about 15% off pre-crash numbers.

I understand that when a site crashes, it disrupts the crawling process and can disrupt traffic (in my case rich snippets were thrown off for days) but would love to hear experiences any of you have had in similar situations.

How much did traffic drop after a crash? When did it recover? Other thoughts?

Thanks,

John

Thanks Miriam, that was my concern as I mentioned above.

Thanks Oleg, my thought was that since domain authority plays a role in local, it could hurt, but I appreciate the feedback.

John

All,

One of my client's sites was hit by Penguin. The business has lost almost all of its organic rankings but is still holding on for a handful of local searches for some of its satellite offices.

We've built a new site and are slowly building domain authority.

My question is this: at what point do I swap out the new site's location URL for the old URL in Google places?

I don't want to risk the existing local placement which is all they have left for the time being.

Thanks,

John

All,

The non www version of a site I own redirects to the www version.

Recently, WMT began showing a big spike in 404 errors (1,000+) on the non www version of the site.

Site traffic is off about 15% since the spike in 404 errors. There was also a brief period about two weeks ago,  where the site went down due to an issue with the code that has now been resolved.

Any ideas how WMT is showing 404 errors on redirected pages?

Thanks,

John

All,

Open site explorer is showing a very spammy link profile for one of my clients, however, when I click through to the actual pages I don't see the links or even the anchor text.

The client has not hired anyone to do clean up on the site and is not yet aware of the links.

Has anyone had similar experiences?

John

All,

Would love to hear from the community on the issue of 2 rich snippets appearing on the same page, will one take precedence in the SERP?

For example, I am working with a client who has authorship markup on his homepage, we are going to add to that schema markup for an introductory video. Will the video snippet or authorship snippet display? Will both display?

I've seen some good threads developed on this topic in the Q&A archives, but feel this topic deserves a fresh perspective as many of the discussion were almost 4 years old.

My webmaster tools preferred domain setting is currently non www. I didn't set the preferred domain this way, it was like this when I first started using WM tools.

However, I have built the majority of my links with the www, which I've always viewed as part of the web address.

When I put my site into an SEO Moz campaign it recognized the www version as a subdomain which I thought was strange, but now I realize it's due to the www vs. non www preferred domain distinction.

A look at site:mysite.com shows that Google is indexing both the www and non www version of the site. My site appears healthy in terms of traffic, but my sense is that a few technical SEO items are holding me back from a breakthrough.

QUESTION to the SEOmoz community:

What the hell should I do? Change the preferred domain settings? 301 redirect from non www domain to the www domain?

Google suggests this: "Once you've set your preferred domain, you may want to use a 301 redirect to redirect traffic from your non-preferred domain, so that other search engines and visitors know which version you prefer."

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.