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what could I do in order to "trigger" the rich snippets to be shown again?

Besides the obvious, content and such.

Thanks

Once upon a time, our site was ranking well and had all the markups showing up in the results. We than lost some of our rankings due to dropped links and not so well kept maintenance.

Now, we are gaining up the rankings again, but the markups don't show up in the organic search results.

When we Google site:oursite.com, the markups show up, but not in the organic search.

There are no manual actions against our site.

any idea why this would happen?

I know this has probably been asked many times and answered too, but things change a lot, so I would like to know with current search engine algos and co.

The scenario is as follows:

Building an ecommerce site and also want to incorporate a Q&A section, for support and FAQ's and such.

should we go ahead and sub domain this like: community.test.com or rater go with test.com/community.

I would really like to know why, why not and maybe some real life examples.

Thank you all

Moosa,

I am currently looking into it.

One thing I know for sure is that a lot of my links dropped, because I stopped using the individuals that were building links for me.

I know what needs to be done on that end.

Thank you for your insight

You might actually be a little stubborn me too, tho.

I called months ago, spoke to different people, legal team even called back one day and they said, unfortunately they don't allow that type of product, even it not being loaded rounds.

I said... well if you don't want my money, what can I do. 

David,

you are absolutely right, there are ads popping up here and there. Mainly people selling over amazon.com and etsy, but very rarely are there any direct ads from my competition.

There was no error message, as we did not even go ahead and submitted it due to this:

https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6014299

It has gotten so ridiculous that even if one day I want to run a blog with info only and place ads, I'm not allowed to show any adsense ads

David,

you are right, an Adwords campaign would help me find the right terms and also get me much more traffic, but unfortunately Google does not allow us to advertise on their platform due to our products being prohibited (google policy).

I even had build up an automated feed for google shopping, but again they don't allow us to be a part of it. Even for google trusted stores, we were declined.

So I am fighting a battle like others, but I am not allowed to use all the same tools.

I know this is a stupid question to ask, considering that every little bit makes a difference with Google, but do you believe that the redirect would have been such a huge influence in the rank drop?

David,

thank you so much for your time and detailed explanation. It is very much appreciated.

For the first point, we don't only sell rifle cases, we sell all cases, be it rifle, pistol or revolver.

I will look into everything today and keep everyone posted. As far as I know the 99 urls, are actually only 45, since I have some no index in there and have removed "empty" pages from google a few months back to make sure not to get penalized for thin content.

Travis,

EDIT: I believe that issue is fixed and I am working on the rest.

thanks for the info, nice to meet a fellow shooter

I have been trying to re-produce the redirect errors for the www and can't seem to find them.

Could you give me some detail as to how you saw that issue.

Thanks

I have checked out everything, I mean everything.

We have no dupe content, our content is a little thin, but it is ours and accurate enough to help our customers.We follow all SEO guidelines and make sure we de-index any pages with no / little content (like privacy, or faq)

All in all, we haven't done any major updates to the sites, and everything was great (page one on almost all kw) but beginning of the month, all kw wiped to the second page, than third, than back to one and now pretty much gone (rank 100-200)

I really don't know what to do. We didn't receive a manual action, and the last algo update was nothing big to cause such a drastic change.

Meanwhile our competition (multiple sites) are gaining in ranks and nothing happened to them (most of them have even less content and not even SSL)

Negative SEO is out of question, I check all links via ahrefs every other day.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

Dennis,

thanks for taking the time to write me.

I have checked internal issues and couldn't find anything that would cause a drop. I did however see that I lost some links over the past few weeks, and I need to investigate that to figure out what happened.

I realized that we lost visitors gradually since sept 21 but last sunday was when traffic completely dropped.

hey guys, I know there is always someone here asking this questions, but I have done my fair share of investigation and have not come up with a cause.

my ranking dropped from page one to page 2  or 3 last sunday in time span of 4 hours.

After that I read that google was updating panda with 4.1, but don't know why I got hit exactly.

my competition is all clear and some have even gained rankings, and mine dropped even though my domain and page authority increased as well.

any ideas would help. I already checked all the obvious ones (such as spam, links, content, etc)

oh wow... I thought it be more like every other day.

I even read it in the section "about your data" most of it says updated every other day, but nothing new in my account

still a newbie here and a little confused.

my campaign still shows data from july 30th till august 5th.

it is however the 8th today and no new stats.

am I missing something?

Thanks

I absolutely agree with your statement that those sites are just too big to be considered competition. The ones I wanted to add are true competitors, which I have about 8 in the US. I passed 3 already, so 5 more to go

whats your stand on tiered linking? Our site is fairly new (1 year and 3 months) but we managed to rank first page position 6 and 7 for two different url paths, which I believe was due to my on page SEO.

But as it is with everything, I want it faster and better and easier

I didn't think about that. I will definitely try that and see, but it is sad to see that I can not add more than 3 competitors.

At least for the beginning, where every competitor matters.

I am very new to all of this and need to learn.

So please accept my apology if I just didn't find it, but I've been searching and can't find a way to add more competitors.

Thanks