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Thanks Jordan and Eric for your input. In the meantime I've gotten a response from JohnMu in the Webmaster Central Help Forum. Apparently it has to do with duplicate content on our website: "We're taking some of these duplicates, and folding them into a single URL."

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/webmasters/ezMvrlRWuDk/q0jjp9bHDgAJ

Thanks for your response Peter. In the meantime I got a response from Google's John Müller regarding my problem. In our case the problem is duplicate content and not missing return tags as reported in search console.

See the ongoing discussion here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/ezMvrlRWuDk/6XWuM1fIDgA

Hey there,

when I check in search console for "Links to your site" and "your most linked content" I see incoming links pointing to the wrong (country and language) subdirectory? When I check those same backlinks with opensiteexplorer they seem to point (after redirects) to the correct subdirectory. Anyone out there with similar experiences or thoughts on this? I would be happy to give access to search console if you wanted to have a look at this.

Cheers,

Jochen

When I check in search console for "Links to your site" and "your most linked content" I see incoming links pointing to the wrong (country and language) subdirectory? When I check those same backlinks with opensiteexplorer they seem to point (after redirects) to the correct subdirectory. Anyone out there with similar experiences or thoughts on this? I would be happy to give access to search console if you wanted to have a look at this.
Cheers,
Jochen

Hey there,

since a client's global website has a very complex structure which lead to big duplicate content problems, we decided to disallow crawler access and instead allow access to only a few relevant subdirectories. While indexing has improved since this I was wondering if we might have cut off link juice. Since several backlinks point to the disallowed root directory and are from there redirected (301) to the allowed directory I was wondering if this could cause any problems?

Example: If there is a backlink pointing to example.com (disallowed in robots.txt) and is redirected from there to example.com/uk/en (allowed in robots.txt). Would this cut off the link juice?

Thanks a lot for your thoughts on this.

Regards,

Jochen

Hey there,

we have recently implemented hreflang on the sitemap level for our global website. The website has 57 sitemaps that are all referenced in a sitemap index file (www.buschvacuum.com/sitemap.xml). Google is showing several errors in search console ("Sitemap provided URLs and alternate URLs in 'en-AU' that do not have return tags."). However when I try to verify this I do find the return tags. Can this be caused by the fact that my hreflang tags span several sitemap files?

To pick one random example (see screenshot for search console error message):
The Originating URL-hreflang-Tag is in www.buschvacuum.com/sitemap_3.xml, the return tag is in www.buschvacuum.com/sitemap_4.xml.

It would be great if someone with experience regarding those errors could help me explaining that behavior.

Thanks a lot.

Jochen

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Hey there,

just a brief opinion question: Do you see any benefit of adding schema.org structured data markup to my breadcrumbs if they are already displaying in SERPs without markup? Are there mayble other long term benefits to using the markup even if I will not notice any short-term effect in SERPs?

Cheers,

Jochen

Thanks again!

If I am doing "mobile friendly test" for the page Google doesn't seem to have any problems accessing the mobile version. If also crawled the page with googles mobile crawler in screamingfrog and again there were not issues.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fm.avogel.ch%2Fde%2Fihre-gesundheit%2Ferkaeltung%2Falles_ueber_erkaeltungen.php

So I don't think the rather unusual behavior of not beeing able to access the mobile site with a desktop browser has an impact on my question regarding the desktop "rich snippets for ratings" showing up in mobile search results.

Thanks for the feedback. I get the mobile page loaded in my browser (only) after deleting all cookies from the site and using the Chrome extension "User-Agent Switcher".

Thanks for the feedback. I get the mobile page loaded in my browser (only) after deleting all cookies from the site and using the Chrome extension "User-Agent Switcher".

Hi Sandi,
not at all:
Desktop Page: http://www.avogel.ch/de/ihre-gesundheit/erkaeltung/alles_ueber_erkaeltungen.php
Mobile Page: http://m.avogel.ch/de/ihre-gesundheit/erkaeltung/alles_ueber_erkaeltungen.php
Serps on google.ch

Cheers,
Jochen

Hi Sand,not at all: Desktop Page: http://www.avogel.ch/de/ihre-gesundheit/erkaeltung/alles_ueber_erkaeltungen.phpMobile Page: http://www.avogel.ch/de/ihre-gesundheit/erkaeltung/alles_ueber_erkaeltungen.phpSerps on google.chCheers

Hey there, 
certain pages of our website have mobile versions like m.mysite.com/content-xyz. On the desktop pages (i.e. mysite.com/content-xyz) we have "rich snippets for ratings" marked up and displayed in SERPs. However the ratings also appear in mobile search results when SERPS reference the mobile version of the page (m.mysite.com/content-xyz) which doesn't have any ratings or markup?

I am trying to figure out how Google treats mobile versions of a page in relation to the desktop version in relation to structured data (breadcrumbs etc.)? Would you always mark up both versions to be the same?

Any ideas and thoughts on this are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Jochen

rich Snippets for Ratings

Hey there, 
certain pages of our website have mobile versions like m.mysite.com/content-xyz. On the desktop pages (i.e. mysite.com/content-xyz) we have "rich snippets for ratings" marked up and displayed in SERPs. However the ratings also appear in mobile search results when SERPS reference the mobile version of the page (m.mysite.com/content-xyz) which doesn't have any ratings or markup?

I am trying to figure out how Google treats mobile versions of a page in relation to the desktop version in relation to structured data (breadcrumbs etc.)? Would you always mark up both versions to be the same?

Any ideas and thoughts on this are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Jochen

rich Snippets for Ratings

Thanks Jordan and Eric for your input. In the meantime I've gotten a response from JohnMu in the Webmaster Central Help Forum. Apparently it has to do with duplicate content on our website: "We're taking some of these duplicates, and folding them into a single URL."

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/webmasters/ezMvrlRWuDk/q0jjp9bHDgAJ