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Maybe I'll just wait to see what happens over the next few months in the SERPS.

The only social network I could find linking was 4 tweets & their 2 youtube videos, they don't have any Google+  or Facebook pages, no reviews and they don't appear in the local listing. The niche is very competitive

I just noticed that they do however use these Zemanta for what looks like related articles - which I am not familiar (so am just going to do a bit of research on them)

When researching a new client - I just came across a site in the same field which is ranking really well for all the local towns/cities/villages in the area.

Each page for each town is a duplicate only changing out the town name (which appears 13 times on the page) - all pics and videos are the same. His url structure is along the lines of:

budget-business-domain.com/budget-business-area/budget-business-town/

The domain was registered in 2012 - all backlinks are internal - anchor text is the same.

I think it shouldn't be working.... but it is

Why is this working?

I have just been looking at this same problem and from what I can figure out, the 2 methods you mention above, separate pages and Ajax pushstate are the best (maybe only) way to go

It looks like your sitemap.xml has been moved from that location or deleted. Did you create this manually or are you using a plugin to create the sitemap.xml? If so which one?

If it this News Ticker then I can't see a problem as it just uses your existing html markup - in which case you have control over your anchor text.

However when I use site explorer I can see the recorded anchor text for a link to a page is incorrect and it's taking the text from the news ticker. Even when a link has come from the news ticker url it seems to take anchor text from the ticker order list before or after.

I don't really understand the above - are you saying it is ignoring the anchor text you have set in your news ticker and using some other text?

Mixing up your anchor text to a page is good, so long as it is natural and relevant.

I guess it depends upon how the news ticker has been built... do you have a link to your site, or a link to the news ticker you are using?

Any ideas here....  In analytics I just drilled down to the actual /thanks-enquiry/ page and it seems that most referrals are coming from second goal /on-sale/ - so I must have this configured incorrectly - but it looks ok (I hope)

Sorry - /on-sale/ is the correct url for the second step - I left off the trailing slash to (try) and show it was a page.

so in full: www.domain.com/on-sale/

In the first step, the urls are:

www.domain.com/products/1/
www.domain.com/products/2/
www.domain.com/products/3/

Hey - how's things?

I've got 2 goals setup, each of which use the same thank you page but with different required funnels. The results have been identical for the last few weeks - which tells me I've got something wrong!!

The first goal has a contact form on every page in the /products/ directory set up like this:
destination equal to: /thanks-enquiry/funnel step1 page: ^/products/.*   required: yes

The first goal has a form on 1 page called /on-sale set up like this:
destination equal to: /thanks-enquiry/
funnel step1 page: /on-sale   required: yes

Any ideas?

Thanks Devanur - that explains it fully. Sometimes you just got to know what to search for

If it this News Ticker then I can't see a problem as it just uses your existing html markup - in which case you have control over your anchor text.

However when I use site explorer I can see the recorded anchor text for a link to a page is incorrect and it's taking the text from the news ticker. Even when a link has come from the news ticker url it seems to take anchor text from the ticker order list before or after.

I don't really understand the above - are you saying it is ignoring the anchor text you have set in your news ticker and using some other text?

Mixing up your anchor text to a page is good, so long as it is natural and relevant.

It looks like your sitemap.xml has been moved from that location or deleted. Did you create this manually or are you using a plugin to create the sitemap.xml? If so which one?