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Hi,

I have maybe 20 categories (new) that I really like to have the same Meta description for all of them. The category names call out the use of their respective products. but, all of these categories are related to a much bigger global initiative.

I don't have enough space in the title to discuss the individual terms as well as the broader project, so I would like the META to say something like "Products related to <this thing="" my="" customers="" care="" about="">from</this>

However, I am extremely paranoid about adding 20-25 meta descriptions that are identical, because Google.

Am I overthinking this and being paranoid about Panguin and Penda?

If it's blocked but there are still links to it, Google will continue to index the URL's

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449

I would think that if it's crawling again, this problem will go away on it's own. My least favorite part of SEO is understanding the problem and waiting for Google to catch up to my understanding  Good luck!

I also had problems when I went to Yoast SEO, but only because the theme was handling title and description in a method that yoast couldn't override -- but since you can see it on the blog, that's not it.

Here's someone with a similar problem - http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/snippet-missing-preview-text-serps-accompanied-severe-rankings-drop-467567.html

It really does sound like the crawl was blocked somehow.

I mean, you can find other people talking about situations where their optimized titles aren't being used  like http://www.seroundtable.com/google-titles-match-12779.html   but, I've seen the serps with no title or desc before and in those cases, it's been robots.txt stuff or other problems crawling the site.

Any possibilities you had an outage? Do you have analytivcs that let you see googlebot's activities (i.e. do you use something besides Google Analytics?

When you just see the URL and not the title or description, you need to make extra-sure you are not blocking googlebot.  Check robots.txt , check for meta robots tags, check webmaster Tools.

Maybe try the fetch page as googlebot feature in webmaster tools and see what it shows you?

As Oleg says, Panda is a content update, the situation you are describing with all those links (which I definitely think could be a problem) is a Penguin issue -- i constantly confuse the two, perhaps you did too?  Do you still have the notifications you got from WWT?

If this ends up needing some hot, disavow tool action this recent comment from Mr. Cutts might save you a ton of time.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-seo-in-the-coming-months/#comment-4405076

Hi,

I have a non-core site that seems to have been affected by a Panda refresh in late December  http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change#2012

Anyway, I couldn't figure out for the longest time why this site, which is full of high-quality, expert-level content would get dinged -- i made several moves to try and eliminate duplicate content -- even though I couldn't find evidence of the duplicate content, but it's a wordpress site so there's lots of opportunities to accidentally introduce it through archives, tags and whatnot.

The classic SEO mistake I was making was I was forgetting about a type of post we were doing to facilitate one of our email campaigns.  On most, sites there's always something you aren't optimizing, and that's the stuff that can really create unintended issues in google, because the decisions made on those pieces, is often more operational toward the other campaigns, than strategic to search.

these posts, are thin little articles, written by humans, but the text is actually submitted to another external site, published there and then recreated as content that the email campaign links to. These posts are segregated from the normal feed on the wordpress site, and the last time I had reviewed this content, we were not using a method for creating that involved publishing it to facebook first.

But, OK, so I'm going to stop indexing this content, that's a given. I believe that is the Panda issue -- I could be wrong, but it makes sense, since otherwise the site is maybe the least likely site to be affected by Panda that I've ever been involved with.

Do I do anything else, after fixing a Panda issue? Is there a reconsideration request for this or something. Should I send a singing telegram to Cutts?

I researched a few articles, and there wasn't much on what to do after you fixed it, but to wait. Just wondering if anyone else who fixed a Panda thang, utilized any communication channel to let google know. thanks!

Thanks very much for this reply. I'm not disheartened at all, positive media mentions are good no matter what.  But, I approach campaigns with goals in mind, backlinks were one of the goals of this.

I like to get the site on people's browsers most of all, though, traffic-bearing links are like child-bearing hips for me.

That iacquire link was really interesting! Thanks again.

Much mentioning, no link.

Hi,

I've seen this question asked and answered by SEO's somewhere in the past but can't seem to find it.

A press release we created was covered in a  nice article by a very prominent newspaper, with a mention of us but no link.

The paper is so prominent that you hesitate for a second to write them and ask for the link, but of course, it doesn't hurt to ask.

One mistake I made was issuing the release but not really pointing it at a piece of relevant content besides our company web site. This is not part of the question but is a good tip fo' learning and growing - the information we released was highly compelling but we should have taken the time to create a beautiful, linkable asset on our site.

Anybody with advice on the best way to ask for a link? Is it asking the author? I assume I am not going to get this.

I think this article will be syndicated -- if it gets picked up elsewhere, do you think it's worth the time to ask those papers?

A company I have not worked with, but have been familiar with for years has been dogged in the pursuit of producing content for SEO purposes -- http://www.ctswholesalesunglasses.com/  they have a blog, i know i've seen videos on their site in the past. they rank well but not #1 on the primary competitive term, however explore the keyword space around it and you will see there content mixed into the SERPs consistently

Hi,

It looks like you don't get it so much as google deems that your content is worthy of it. The official name right now is 'As Seen On' YouTube Pages'

Check here for more details

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/06/as-seen-on-youtube-pages-celebrating.html

A company I have not worked with, but have been familiar with for years has been dogged in the pursuit of producing content for SEO purposes -- http://www.ctswholesalesunglasses.com/  they have a blog, i know i've seen videos on their site in the past. they rank well but not #1 on the primary competitive term, however explore the keyword space around it and you will see there content mixed into the SERPs consistently