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Thank you, Vadim. We appreciate you taking a few minutes to share your perspective.

We were pleasantly surprised when a new skateboarding magazine/blog popped up recently. We have a good working relationship with the guys who run the site and they dropped our logo and a link to our site on the home page of their blog.

As a national skateboarding retailer, this is the kind of site we would naturally show up on with link, logo, content, etc. So we feel we gained a highly relevant, potentially valuable link. One question came up, however: by being linked to in an area that's clearly designated for advertisers, is our potential link value diminished?

See the site and our placement here (rt column, Tactics logo):http://www.curbcutmag.com/

Curious what some of you think.

Ah. I must have missed that. I did attend, so I will check my inbox. Thank you Jesse!

Hey Moz folks,

Can we expect slides from Avinash's presentation posted any time soon?

Our e-comm site includes more than 250 brand pages - lrg image, some fluffy text, maybe a video, links to categories for that brand, etc. In many cases, Google publishes our page title and description in their search results. However, in some cases, Google instead publishes our H1 and the aforementioned fluffy page content.

We want our page content to read well, be descriptive of the brand and appropriate for the audience. We want our meta titles and descriptions brief and likely to attract CTR from qualified shoppers. I'm finding this difficult to manage when Google pulls from two different areas inconsistently.

So my question...  Is there a way to ensure Google only utilizes our title/desc for our listings?

Probably not much help here, but I've run into the same issue today. We've seen more than 25K referrals from various eadgear.com urls since late July, the vast majority from http://www.eadgear.com/members/surfbar.php. It appears I need to be a member to dig deeper...have not done that at this point. I'm guessing some kind of ad network or overseas shopping portal? The traffic has produced zero business, thus my concern is how this activity may be contributing to an increased bounce rate and might potentially influence our authority scores.

This is enough traffic to register a trend move in our affiliate program and/or our remarketing program. I've seen neither that I can attribute to this referrer.

Probably not much help here, but I've run into the same issue today. We've seen more than 25K referrals from various eadgear.com urls since late July, the vast majority from http://www.eadgear.com/members/surfbar.php. It appears I need to be a member to dig deeper...have not done that at this point. I'm guessing some kind of ad network or overseas shopping portal? The traffic has produced zero business, thus my concern is how this activity may be contributing to an increased bounce rate and might potentially influence our authority scores.

This is enough traffic to register a trend move in our affiliate program and/or our remarketing program. I've seen neither that I can attribute to this referrer.