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Hi Robert,

Have you try special characters on meta description? Instead of showing the first 5 letters on your meta description, you can use something like this character "" to represent your review about it. Does it work?

You can find the complete list of UTF-8 symbols here: http://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_symbols.asp

Hi Jimmy,

Any chance you split that traffic by Mobile vs Desktop and then on Mobile traffic check the direct traffic by device? Sometimes it is related to a specific device or browser that is sending the wrong referral data.

I remember this Cyrus post, about Bing traffic (https traffic) showing as direct traffic. And there is also a post by Shahzad Abbas from Define Media on iOS traffic messing up with analytics reports. Maybe you can read those and have some insights.

Cheers,

Fabio

I'm not able to replicate what you are saying. Google is showing the correct titles for me.

Any chance you upload a screenshot?

Hi folks,

We are planning to implement a cross-domain canonical tag for a client and I'm looking for some information on bing supporting cross-domain canonical tag.

Does anyone knows if there was a public announcement made by Bing or any representative about the support of this tag?

Btw, the best info I've found is a Q&A here on Moz about it http://moz.com/community/q/does-bing-support-cross-domain-canonical-tags but I'm looking for a Bing information on the topic.

Just to let you know that the page was indexed in less than 24hrs. We didn't use Tony's tiip (share on G+) but we did all the following:

• Used GWT tool - fetch as googlebot
• Submit the URL using the button that appears after fetching as googlebot
• Included some sidewide links to the page
• Included the page in our sitemap.xml

Thanks all folks who added some insights and tips!

Thanks for the tip Tony! We didn't try this yet.

Hi folks,

A client of mine created a new page and used meta robots noindex to not show the page while they are not ready to launch it. The problem is that somehow Google "crawled" the page and now, after removing the meta robots noindex, the page does not show up in the results.

We've tried to crawl it using Fetch as Googlebot, and then submit it using the button that appears. We've included the page in sitemap.xml and also used the old Google submit new page URL https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url

Does anyone know how long will it take for Google to show the page AFTER removing meta robots noindex from the page? Any reliable references of the statement? I did not find any Google video/post  about this.

I know that in some days it will appear but I'd like to have a good reference for the future.

Thanks.

I don't think you should focus on doing SEO for this page. You should create a content that a reader loves... maybe telling the site history or anything funny about the founders. You need to find a creative way to tell the readers the history of your company/website.

Why not use "leed certification" as you anchor text in your menu instead of "leed". This will give you a small boost.

As you can see here http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.cleanedison.com%2Fleed you don't have any links (internal or external) pointing to this page with the exact or partial anchor text "leed certification".

My guess is that you are not providing a good information to Google.

One side note: did you know you have a plenty of spammy backlinks poiting to your home page with the anchor "leed certification"? Check this http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?page=1&target=page&sort=page_authority&group=0&site=www.cleanedison.com&return_page=1&return_target=page&target=page&return_source=phrase&anchor_type=phrase&anchor_text=leed%20certification&anchor_id=14855739949

During my past years on SEO, I've seen cases with a 5% - 10% delta (negative) during the first 3 days. And about 3-7 days the traffic increased a lot.

If you do the 301 redirection correctly I think that you can find the same numbers.

My tip here is to use this geotarget feature only, and if only, you want to target ONE specific country. Otherwise, let Google decide.

In my experience, Google does not ranking lower longer URLs. I know Rand published once a correlation study that shows this, but I can show you many examples that I've used the first approach and got good rankings. Same for the second approach.

I think you should keep your website architecture solid, following the correct path and not removing one level.

Another thing is that dropping that specific level may cause you some duplicate URLs problem. You will need some database check before enable each URLs. Pay attention if you choose the second approach.

During my past years on SEO, I've seen cases with a 5% - 10% delta (negative) during the first 3 days. And about 3-7 days the traffic increased a lot.

If you do the 301 redirection correctly I think that you can find the same numbers.

Hi Robert,

Have you try special characters on meta description? Instead of showing the first 5 letters on your meta description, you can use something like this character "" to represent your review about it. Does it work?

You can find the complete list of UTF-8 symbols here: http://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_symbols.asp

I don't think you should focus on doing SEO for this page. You should create a content that a reader loves... maybe telling the site history or anything funny about the founders. You need to find a creative way to tell the readers the history of your company/website.

Hi Jimmy,

Any chance you split that traffic by Mobile vs Desktop and then on Mobile traffic check the direct traffic by device? Sometimes it is related to a specific device or browser that is sending the wrong referral data.

I remember this Cyrus post, about Bing traffic (https traffic) showing as direct traffic. And there is also a post by Shahzad Abbas from Define Media on iOS traffic messing up with analytics reports. Maybe you can read those and have some insights.

Cheers,

Fabio

Why not use Advanced Segments? You can find more detailed information here: http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1033017

For example, if your old URLs looks like:

www.mysite.com/old.php?cat=12&pid=113

And the new ones looks like

www.mysite.com/category-12/product-113

You can easily create advanced segments to monitor the performance.

In my experience it is not harmful. But as you said it is really important to improve your CTR.

Just to let you know that the page was indexed in less than 24hrs. We didn't use Tony's tiip (share on G+) but we did all the following:

• Used GWT tool - fetch as googlebot
• Submit the URL using the button that appears after fetching as googlebot
• Included some sidewide links to the page
• Included the page in our sitemap.xml

Thanks all folks who added some insights and tips!

I don't see any real problems in your situation. Try to add a canonical from example.com/ to example.com just to make sure Google understand.

It is not a BIIIIIG deal, but the canonical should guarantee your rankings.