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Hi Alex,

That is "exactly" what I did.

Structured data tool says it's valid while Search Console says it's an error :-/.

I should add the error search console gives is:  Either "offers", "review", or "aggregateRating" should be specified

Hi,

Trying to markup products for a site that does not show prices. Is there any way to markup a product price when the business model is:

1. customer calls or contacts shop.

2. shop gives a price quote based on level of detail and finish on the product

3. there is no base or top price.

Thanks in advance!

H Olegi,

We lost traffic to all areas. Robots are the same, canonicals seem fine.

There are a lot more url's that seem to be the various sized thumbnail images.

Now we are suffering heavily from the March update.

Thanks,

Hi guys, I recently upgraded from woocommerce 2 to v3 and rankings have been plummeting. I have double checked all of the schema, markup, technical, speed, etc and it all seems to be the same. The on thing that I did find is that while there used to be about 400 images (products) there are now over 1500 images in the index as all of the thumbnails are not in the sitemap. Would / could this cause the issue? Can i remove all the thumbs from the sitemap? if so any suggestions on how (google returns very little to nothing regarding this). Should i alt text every thumbnail.....

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

We continue to get hundreds of spam links per month, and just found a link from here.

I do not believe this is owned by moz.

https://www.wapz.net/

Maybe I'm wrong?

Thanks.

Hi Nikki Thanks for the response.

I too am under the impression that with penguin being live that big G had figured out how to diminish value from spam links and it was no longer an issue. On the flip side The only real thing that's changed over the past 6 months for us is a massive increase in these spam links.

I will try to just bullet out a response so I don't write a novel

• Yes I have checked if it's hacked and it is not.
• I have no manual actions listed
• I did just look for weird traffic sources, and out of the 48 that I do have, the only weird ones are from urls with the spammy links.
• Also to note, our ranking has not dropped in any other search engines, only google. In fact we have improved in Bing and Yahoo.
• Another note. I have disavowed a few porn backlinks we have gotten from sites like gay.interracialsexcinema among others.
• In the past 7 days I have gotten 33 new links from sites like zenlaser.c0oo - thefreestates.commm prowp.neeet  and lilucia02.coooommmm slash cantilever-coffee-table dot html.
• Many of the domains that are linking to us are literally created (whois lookup)  15 - 30 days before we get a link. All domains are registered private (except one that i caught just before going private and it was in china) and 90% of them are hiding behind cloudflare.
• An annoying thing is that over 90% of these links are on pages that the url path is the actual same url path or title tag that we are using on our page as well as the h1's and h2's with a "." anchor or the actual path anchor linking back to either our page or an image on our site.

I updated the disavow a few weeks ago but have not added all domains to it as I wanted to knock it down little by little. I have been hesitant to do a one shot one kill approach as I want to be cautious in the event that I make a mistake and cause an even larger issue.

Any further thoughts?

Thanks again!

HI everyone,

I've been having an issue with a severe drop in rankings (#2 to #36ish). All of my technicals seem to be ok, however I seem to be getting my images hotlinked (which I have killed in nginx) from these spam like pages that pull and link to an image on my site, then link again with a " . " for the anchor. Even more strange is that these pages are titled and marked up with the same titles and target key words as my site. For example, I just got a link yesterday from a site leadoptimiser - d o tt-  me which is IMO a junk site. The title of the page is the same as one of my pages, the page is pulling in images relevant to my page, however the image sources are repos EXCEPT for 2 images from my site which are hotlinked to my pages image and then an additional <a>.</a> link is placed to my website.

I have gotten over 1500 of these links in the past few months from all different domains but the website (layout etc) is always the same. I have been slowly disavowing some of them, but do not want to screw up anything in case these links are already being discounted by G as spam and not affecting my rank. The community seems to be really split on the necessity of disavowing links like these. Because of these links, according to Ahrefs, my backlink profile is 38% anchor text of "." .

Everything else checks out in my own review as well as Moz tools and Ahrefs with very high quality scores etc. Webmasters is fine, indexing is fine, pagespeed insights is in the 90's, ssl is A+.

I've never had to deal with what seems to be an attack of this size.

Thanks.

will do

Thanks for the quick response. I actually already disavowed the spammy image links 'just in case' haha.

The whole thing is weird, the spam links literally start at the exact same timeframe as FRED. However only people using our images on super spammy pages.

We have no ad heavy pages, no good links lost.

I'll keep updating this as time goes on.

Hi,

So starting about March 9 I started seeing huge losses in ranking for a client. These rankings continue to drop every week since and we changed nothing on the site.

At first I thought it must be the FRED update, so we have started rewriting and adding product descriptions to our pages (which is a good thing regardless). I also checked our backlink profile using OSE on MOZ and still saw the few linking root domains we had. Another Odd thing on this is that webmasters tools showed many more domains.

So today I bought a subscriptions to ahrefs and instantly saw that on the same timeline (starting March 1 2017) until now, we have literally doubled in inbound links from very spammy type sites. BUT the incoming links are not to content, people seem to be ripping off our images.

So my question is, do spammy inbound image links count against us the same as if someone linked actual written content or non image urls? Is FRED something I should still be looking into? Should i disavow a list of inbound image links?

Thanks in advance!

I would tend to agree with Lynn Patchett. Could you tier out your changes and plan to methodically release it in small increments while monitoring the effects? This way you could begin with smaller changes, even a few url's with an update and gauge its effectiveness (or non)...

• Would this indirectly affect the rank of the https page moving forward you think? Seeing as all the incoming +'s will be for the http then 301'ing etc to https?

Are you asking about creating incoming our outgoing links, or are you asking about how to structure your domain URLs?

Just an option... If the information is non pertinent you could also noindex the paginated pages... You could also canonical tag to the view all page for the category and leave the H tags as they are...

I have a site that has gotten quite a few google +1's. I am currently migrating to https for the site and it seems I will lose all the +1's?

Per the documentation it seems I can set the URL to the normal http://, but that would then allow ppl to continue +'ing the old url.

Is there a way around this?

Thanks!