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I'll contact them directly, then. Thank for your help, Jasmine.

Hi Jasmine,

Thanks for the response. The key term is "should". We've tried several times to list it and it won't. I think we even tried to take out any terms from the title and product description that would include the words "weapon", "rifle", "AR-15" since the scope does apply to these terms, but we even see other's published listings still have those kinds of words on there.

Ah well, we'll just keep on trying and see if it sticks.

Hi there,

We sell tactical gear but only "Google Friendly" items in our Google Shopping Product Listing Ads. We don't include anything that goes on a rifle, including rifle scopes. However, we see that companies like ebay and OpticsPlanet can still sell riflescopes: https://www.google.com/#q=Bushnell+3-12x44+Mil+Dot+Tactical+Riflescope&tbm=shop. There's even an article by SearchEngineLand that points this out, too: http://searchengineland.com/google-weapon-listings-shopping-search-126487.

So why is it that they can sell them and we can't? What advantage do they have or what have they done?

We definitely have a comprehensive link list in hand!

Of course, if anyone else out there in the SEOMoz community want to chime in, I'm open to any thoughts, suggestions, and help.

Awesome - thanks! I was hesitant if I should do a private question since it's being shut down soon. But thanks for the "go" signal. I'll send it right away.

Our website has dynamic URLs and we are moving to another server/platform. 301 redirects is looking like a highly unlikely solution. A 3rd party company is handling the back-end of the website which they say works more like a "search engine" than a traditional website. Maybe that explains why they're having a hard time with the 301 redirects.

Worst case scenario: we can't use the 301 redirect.

What else can we do? We are considering "Indicate your canonical (preferred) URLs by including them in a Sitemap" as Google describes here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139066#2. I'm wondering if this method only applies to duplicate content........and what would happen once the old website results in a 404 page......

HELP! We need to cross over to the new platform as soon as possible.

Unlike email campaigns and promotions where I can have a customized URL, my question deals with less trackable efforts. It's mainly about content creation and optimizing individual product pages. With these pages, people can do the following things:

1. Order the product directly on the product page
2. Look at the product page, call up sales for more questions, complete the transaction online.
3. Look at the product page, call up sales, and the sales department makes the order for them.
4. Call up sales, sales directs them to the page, customer looks at page and makes the order online.
5. Call up sales, sales directs them to the page, customer continues conversation with sales as customer looks at page, order done either online or directly by sales.
6. Order the product directly on the page, have some kind of complaint afterwards (not usually the case) and then customer service retains the sale.

So the optimized page helped generate the sale in some form, but who gets the credit for the sale? Did the page generate enough information and was compelling enough for the customer to call up sales for further information? Would the customer have called up sales anyway if the page was not optimized? Did the customer call up sales because the page not optimized enough? If the optimized page made it an easy sale for the sales department, shouldn't online marketing get some of that credit - and by how much? Where can marketing measure its true monetary progress - at first touch, at last touch, or somewhere else?

Is there a way to say with certainty, "Online marketing generated this sale," when you have a team of sales people and customer service people on the phones? If we can't get as close as to a single transaction, what other indicators can be used to show cause-and-effect that sales increased with online marketing efforts?

Some things to consider:

How is the page loading? Does it take awhile? Have there been any other bugs on that end? Try testing out the check-out process to make sure.

Are the 60 users unique users? Or is it a smaller number who see the cart page frequently due to extended length of shopping?

Do they return to the cart a day or so later to complete the purchase?

I'll contact them directly, then. Thank for your help, Jasmine.