Hi All

I have have been kind of out of the seo scene for a while,  does &pws=0 still work?   I only ask as the search console says our brand name has droped to an average postion 3 ( instead of 1), but every time I check I we are 1st ( and I can see anything behind it that could possiabley get in front of it.

Thanks

Edit:  Actually  I also tried testing incognito, via a proxy and &pws=0,  we are always 1st

I have seen this before, it looks like <a class="attribute-value">http://www.osce.gob.pe</a> has been hacked, but you have said that you have tried contacting them to tell them they have been hacked.  Looks like they are only showing google your scrapped content but redirecting everyone else ( its a broken redirect for me), i'm guessing the hacked site has a higher authority than your site and that is why its out ranking you.  This seems to be a common trick for these guys to make a quick buck for a few weeks before google catches on whats going on an corrects the serps.

Maybe try reporting it on googles forums, maybe a mod will escalate it for you.

Keep us updated

I think you posted this message before seeing my last response, but you'l notice that they use "results" (like us) and google it picking up on that,  but your site has nothing after the number

Just to follow up, on our site we have on categories that have more than one page it says "Showing 1 to 24 of 32 results ", and in the serps it says "Results 1 - 24 of 32"

For categories with one page , its say eg "Showing 15 Item(s)" and the serps says 15 "Item"

But for a category that has only 3 products "Showing 3 Item(s)" the serps does not show anything, so there is no guarantees that it will work.

(on a side note, I must change the way we display the number of products, "results" and "items" are not really the right terms )

So yeah this has nothing to do with rich snippets,  goojle is just figuring the product count.  So if you look at the example size, they have the text showing "Showing 53 products"  so google has worked out that there are 53 products,  but on your site it says "showing 1 - 52 of 156",  note it does not say "products" so google not picking up the meaning  of "showing 1 - 52 of 156",  I would guess just by adding "products" to the end of that text, google will pick that up.

Have you tested on google testing tool?

https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/

I have seen google show the number of products on pages that don't have rich snippets too, so it can be just what google bot decides what to show or not.

Yes but when you "no follow" link juice that would have been passed to that page is loss (and not diverted to other pages), in turn that means that any pages that is linked to from the login page does not get any juice passed to it.  And when you think something like a login page is linked from every page that's a lot of link juice to throw away (collectively).

I understand your point about the crawling, but unless you have lots of new content (or updating content)  I would take the boost from the maximising link flow though the site.

I have removed "no follow" from internal link (like login) before and have seen general boost in rankings site wide before ( not scientific proof granted)

I would disagree Dirk, You should never use Nofollow on internal links as its throwing link juice out the window.  It better to noindex pages you don't want indexed. nofollow should only be used on external link you don't vouch for  or for paid for links