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Hi,

Here I am providing you few checkpoints either of them could be reason for not showing your products in Google shopping.

(1) google may sometimes take 24-72 hours or so
before a properly processed data-feed can be seen
within the adwords account; the feed must be valid.

(2) be certain a product_type attribute is submitted
using plain text and > separated taxonomy data ; e.g.
Toys > Wagons
https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/188494#product_type

(3) product-targets are for regular-product-listing-ad-campaigns;
shopping-campaigns use product-groups to create groups of
items to assign bids.
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3455481

see also
https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/188494#google_product_category
https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/1344057

If all of the above things are fine from your end then it is better to contact Adwords support team.

Hope this helps

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Hi Neil,

I am sharing 'Miriam Ellis' views on this. I'm sharing her views second time to answer community user's query :). It is very detailed and informative post on this. Please check once.

"I'm the Local SEO Associate here in the forum and I truly understand what a heartache and headache negative reviews can be and competitive spamming is just about the dirtiest trick in the book.

Okay...here's the deal...I would advise you to attempt to deal with the situation as it is rather than attempting to erase the whole thing and here is why: Google does not need your permission to create a listing for your business. Google began populating their index with 3rd party data, creating all of the Places (then called Maps) listings without any consent from the business owners. Thus, if you attempt to get rid of your listing, there is nothing to prevent Google from simply creating another at which point, even if your old reviews don't carry over (which they might), your rotten competitor will simply persist in spamming you. You will be right back in the same situation.

Unfortunately, I don't believe there is actually a way to 'opt out' of Google if your business is profiled anywhere on the web. You'd have to leave the whole web to be beyond Google's ability to create a Place Page for you. Does that make sense? I have spoken with not a few business owners who resent the powerful grip Google has on their business data and their fortunes. Understandable.

Here is an excellent piece from last year by Mike Blumenthal on this topic:

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2011/07/14/google-quickly-removes-most-review-spam-in-moving-industry-more-remains-at-google-and-elsewhere/

I have a couple of suggestions to offer:

Suggestion 1. Follow the steps outlined in my interview of Google Places Help Forum Top Contributors Mike Blumenthal and Nyagoslav Zhekov, (http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=1128) namely:

7. What happens when business owners report competitors in the forum for possible spamming? Does this spark a manual look at the listing in question?

Mike: It would if the posting gets flagged by a top contributor and then brought to the attention of Vanessa. It would be best to Report the spam via Report a Problem first and then wait the requisite 4-6 weeks for a resolution before bringing it to the forums. The exception to that would be if someone was at risk due to the spam. It is always best to bring large scale, egregious examples into the forums.

Nyagoslav: It generally depends on the scale of the problem being shared. If it potentially harms a big number of users, then a manual look and action is taken. As spamming is widespread on Google Maps, Googlers tend to run from solving specific cases, but rather take them as samples to build the big picture which could help them stop the spam pattern.

Trojan, once you have managed to claim back your company's account, do the Report A Problem steps outlined by Mike. Make your report clear and thorough and link to the exact problem and describe the competitive spam behavior. Also, admit which negative reviews are actually from customers and are legit. If you don't see resolution in 6 weeks, take the problem into the Google Places Help Forum, which is currently moving house. New link:

http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/maps

Suggestion 2: Contact a lawyer. If you can identify that there is a competitor in your town who is repeatedly spamming your reviews while faking positive ones for himself, draft a letter with a lawyer letting the competitor know what you have observed. The point here is to alarm him into taking down his lame reviews.

Suggestion 3. As others have said, you need to start acquiring more positive reviews. For the legit negatives, can you leave a response offering to make the situation better? I'm not sitting in front of your reviews, so I don't know if this suggestion is reasonable but if it is, do it, and move forward with more positive reviews.

So, in sum...my advice is to report the problem, take into the forum if nothing happens in 6 weeks, contact a lawyer and improve your positive/negative ratio by acquiring new positive reviews. I think attempting to delete the record would be futile and a waste of time.

Hope this helps! "

You can read full post here @ http://moz.com/community/q/removing-bad-reviews-by-removing-google-places-listing

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Hi Eslam,

Image links pass page rank and have value but text links are an authority over image based links. While search engines will utilize alt and title tags to identify the content of the image your anchor text is still King.

Remember a search engine spider can download an image file, but it can't see it like humans can. A search engine spider however loves and reads text.

Hope this helps

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Hi Leo,

There are only a few directory that actually pass significant SEO value to your sites.

There are few metrics that you have to keep in mind during selection of directory website.

1>Must have good DA

2>Must have good MozRank (because PR has not been updated since December 2013)

3>The stronger the directory domain the better the backlink

Here are few good directories where you can submit your website

Free

========================

1>www.dmoz.org

2>http://directory.r-tt.com/Submit_Site/

3>https://www.somuch.com/submit-links/?TopicID=&CategoryID=

4>http://www.directoryworld.net/

5>http://www.allthewebsites.org/

Paid

=====

http://familyfriendlysites.com/ffStatipPages.asp?stindex=3

Hope this helps

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Hi,

I would never suggest to do generate Ads using script because by using that I don't think you can create effective Ad copy. But you asked about the script so I am providing the script with details how to use that but not sure whether it is paid or unpaid, haven't used ever. you can check yourself.

Enhanced Script: Create Ads From a Spreadsheet @ http://www.optmyzr.com/scripts/

Automatically Create AdWords Ads From A Spreadsheet  @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiOQepEHuwA

Hope this helps

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Hi,

Page rank last updated on December 2013 & John Muller says "we’re probably not going to be updating it going forward".

So I would like to suggest you to check MozRank ( moz version of PR) instead of PR & PA ,DA.

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Hi Justin,

This time also I'm sharing an article on this because there are several checkpoints . Please check below article

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-avoid-seo-disaster-during-a-website-redesign/

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

I am sharing answer given by Miriam Ellis (a moz staff) on exact query.

"In order to qualify for local inclusion, avoid penalties and prevent merging, your client must be able to answer yes to the following 3 points.

1) Does the business have a unique, dedicated physical address (not a virtual address, P.O. Box or shared address)?

2) Does the business have a unique, dedicated local phone number in the city of location (not an 800 number, not a call tracking number, not a shared number)

3) Does the business have in-person transactions with its customers, either at its own location (like a restaurant) or at the customers' locations (like a plumber)?

If the business does not meet any one of these 3 criteria, it does not qualify for local inclusion. I don't know where your client is at on points 2 and 3, but if they can't say yes to point one, Local SEO will be nothing but problematic for them. Here's why:

If 2 or more businesses share an address, suite address or phone number (or even if their names are too similar), Google will frequently merge the business details of the listings. This means that Joe the Barber can end up with Jim the Plumber's business name, phone number or reviews showing up on his listing. Merging is one of the most difficult issues to deal with in Local, and one to be avoided at all costs.

Here is a Google help file on this issue: http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=175290

Your client's best hope is to:

1. Secure a unique suite number in the building at which he/she works and at which mail can be received.

2. Search for all citations of the business web-wide to correct any existent citations so that they include the new suite number.

You can check full post here @ http://moz.com/community/q/local-seo-how-to-handle-multiple-business-at-same-address

Hope this helps

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Hi Justin,

IMO first you need to noindex to your test site (new design site) .Please add following code in header of every page

It's important to know that

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

is to block the site in the Robots.txt file is not sufficient. The meta-tags are the important part. If you skip those and only use robots.txt your site could still end up being crawled.

You are looking for step by step Guide so I'm sharing two very informative articles in case of redesign website for SEO purpose

1>http://moz.com/blog/how-to-avoid-an-seo-disaster-when-changing-your-website

2>http://www.quicksprout.com/2014/06/02/how-to-retain-at-least-95-of-your-organic-traffic-after-a-site-redesign/

Hope it helps you.

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Hi,

Back in the days the trailing slash suggested "this is a directory" in contrary to "this is a file". Browsers would react slightly faster – or at least that's what I was told – when they were indirectly told "look for a file called index…". Today that trailing slash is next to obsolete.

Today it is considered good practice to either always or never have that trailing slash – otherwise it could be considered duplicate content.

But as far as I know neither theory has any impact on SEO.

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Hi All,

I wanted to place longer content on products category page, Currenty I am showing product listing first and then small description at the end of listing.I don't want to add longer content either bottom or top.

I want to make two tabs at the top of each category pages like Products | Informtion

In Product section (after clicking on it) I want to display all products listing & in Information tab (after clicking on it) 2-3 paragraphs of webpage content but I'm afraid If I will place the content in this way Google won't index content and my purpose of adding webpage content to target long tail keywords won't fulfill.

Please suggest me if you have any better idea & let me know what I am going to do would be good or not in SEO perspective.

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Hi John,

No, you can upload XML feed any time so in your case you should update XML feed immediately after price updation on website. Goggle doesn't mentioned anywhere that you have to submit/update XML feed at 12 AM only, I do submit the feed whenever I want.

If your prices change daily at a specific time, then a schedule to upload a fresh Data feed once these changes go live would be an idea. This takes out any possibility of human error in forgetting etc. Ensure you do have an email confirmation set up though, so you can watch for any failures in uploads.

Now coming to the price differ - Although your dashboard may report pricing discrepancies, if you have uploaded your feed and this matches the price listed on your site, it could be that when Google crawled your page, it was just before you did the price change on the site or alternatively, just before you uploaded the feed to reflect the change in price.

Hope it helps.

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Hi Andy-Halliday,

Now Google confirms that "Google Mobile-Friendly Algorithm Will Not Impact Tablet Searches".

Proof @ --- https://www.seroundtable.com/google-mobile-friendly-algorithm-smartphone-only-20094.html

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I'm fully agree with Moosa and he explained very welll.

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Hi Entertainment,

I am sharing an old post & an article by Matt  some quotes from moz staff & SEO Expert on this.

http://moz.com/blog/going-beyond-moz-metrics-to-answer-why-is-this-site-outranking-me

http://moz.com/community/q/high-da-pa-and-a-grade-at-page-level-not-ranking-in-serp-why

Keri Morgret said that on the same issue "Google uses their own algorithm, and we haven't been able to convince them to use Moz Metrics for ranking or to give us access to an API for their algorithm."

Hope it helps.

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Hi,

No what I know that is It is for mobile only according to Google source. There is nothing in public domain so far whether it would affect on desktop site search/Tablet or If affect how would it affect.

I am sharing Google's Zineb Ait Bahajji reply on Rand Fishkin & Barry Schwart's similar question. Please check image.

http://imgur.com/PG5Muxo

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Hi Tom,

There is a way to make text bold in Google+ page comment or review section. To make comments or review bold  use a * before and after

I hope it helps you . To know more on this like how to make italic / Italic & bold Please check below URL

https://plus.google.com/103400392486480765286/posts/QBmgLCtmoo1

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Hi,

The page is about authentication for member page so I don't think it is important page as far as SEO is concern for this particular page. You can use either one it is up to you.

Second thing we don't want to index or rank such pages in Google because such pages doesn't useful for common visitors of your website in any way so you can also use noindex , nofollow.

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Hi Errick,

That won't hurt you at all. Please watch Matt cutts video on this @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8eQgx-njk4

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Hi Jamie,

No not at all, you can use such tags and attributes.

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Hi Jamie,

Neither it was nor it is an important ranking factor. No I haven't seen any noticeable difference .

List of Important SEO ranking Factors @ http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors

I'm also sharing Matt Cutts video on this @ http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2297152/does-google-penalize-for-invalid-html-matt-cutts-says-no

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Hi Monica,

I presume you already check all the options before posting this question. I have concluded this by seeing your others posts/reply in this community.

Now here is my answer

To prevent your PDF file (or any non HTML file) from being listed in search results, the only way is to use the HTTP X-Robots-Tag response header, e.g.:

X-Robots-Tag: noindex

robots.txt does not prevent your page from being listed in search results.

What it does is stop the bot from crawling your page, but if a third party links to your PDF file from their website, your page will still be listed.

If you stop the bot from crawling your page using robots.txt, it will not have the chance to see the X-Robots-Tag: noindex response tag. Therefore, never ever ever disallow a page in robots.txt if you employ the X-Robots-Tag header.

I hope it helps but not very sure.

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Hi,

In my limited understanding I think you haven't taken SSL. Not only your site you can check for any other website who haven't taken SSL you will get same errors so you don't need to worry about it.

(In below paragraph I'm not trying to promote my website . It is just an example to explain. If I'm violating any guideline by doing so moz staff can edit/delete this post)

I'm giving example of my website signwaves.co.uk  if you open this website it will redirected to https version.

Now coming to second part of your question though I'm not seeing any logo but I understand your concern.

"The logo in the bottom right of the https: website is the name of the webdesigner  where the website is hosted.

Is this a normal practice?"

Yes web designer/development company put their logo on usually every site designed /developed by company . You can ask them to remove or if they don't It won't affect too much to you as far as SEO is concern but It does affect to webdesign company because they are getting loads of backlink on same anchor text and getting links from every page of website.

I hope it helps you.

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Hi Ethan,

I will say yes & no. Please watch below Matt cutts video on the exact issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsSwqo16C8s&noredirect=1

I hope it helps.

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Hi Howard,

I am sharing few tutorial links to learn affiliate marketing

1>http://www.lynda.com/Marketing-Content-Marketing-tutorials/Affiliate-Marketing-Fundamentals/164988-2.html?srchtrk=index:1 linktypeid:2 q:affiliate%2Bweb%2Bsite page:1 s:relevance sa:true producttypeid:2

2> https://books.google.co.in/books?id=tABdAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=affiliate+website+tutorial&source=bl&ots=gxDmHA6PiB&sig=Ucl6WXUzSmR7PefONeJzVas4KxU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xy4aVc6ZJ8OyuQSV0YLYDg&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=affiliate website tutorial&f=false

I hope it helps you.

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Hi Swendt,

I presume you know that the meta description is not a ranking factor in Google but indirectly yes because meta description is mainly used to increase CTR. If CTR would improve ranking will also improve.

Now coming to your question

If your business name is a single word like Microsoft then I will go to second option with first alphabet in capital & if your business name is two word keyword like 'Wall Street' I will go for first option.

I hope it helps you.

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Hi Jamie,

Mark Ginsberg is absolutely right "Despite the EMD update, EMD's do still have some advantages from my experience." and even I know list of the websites who is ranking for very competitive keyword by having EMD with very low number inbound links not even quality backlinks.

So it is not impossible to outrank them very easily but for that you must have more quality backlinks from authoritative websites.

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Yes agreed but if you are seeing that scrapers sites outrank your sites in SERPs in that case you should fill the form.

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Hi ,

First let Google know about this by using this form @ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pw1KVOVRyr4a7ezj_6SHghnX1Y6bp1SOVmy60QjkF0Y/viewform

Second I would like to tell you that its myth that scrapers will hurt your Site. Scrapers don’t help or hurt you. Do you think that a little blog in Asia with no original writing and no visitors confuses Google? No. It just isn’t relevant.

To know more on this please visit below URL

https://blog.kissmetrics.com/myths-about-duplicate-content/

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Hi Dev,

You are not going wrong any where. AdWords & analytics track data differently .Please read below two points your doubt will clear. I hope it helps you.

1. Different attribution models: AdWords will give attribution to AdWords click during the set conversion window irrespective of other sources which may be involved during conversion. Analytics by default will attribute goal completion to last non direct source. For example User clicks on your ad on 1^st January >> visits website and exits >> he visits website again via referral link on 5^th of January and converts. AdWords will attribute conversion to AdWords click and Analytics will attribute goal completion to referral.
2. Different Attribution for conversion date: AdWords attributes the conversion to click date while Analytics attributes goal completion to actual conversion date. For example User clicks on your ad on 1^st January >> visits website and exits >> he visits website again via referral link on 5^th of January and converts. AdWords will show conversion for 1^st January and Analytics will show Conversion for 5^th January

To know more on this please visit below URL

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2679221?hl=en

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Hi Eric,

I am sharing one article on how site can have structured URLs. This article explained exact issue that you have mentioned in your question.

http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/structured-urls/

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Hi Dino,

I would like to add one very informative article and please also do check comment section of that article there is also few good suggestion with great answer of Ryan.

http://moz.com/ugc/8-reasons-why-your-site-might-not-get-indexed

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Hi Srinu,

What error is showing? Please expand you question.

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Hi Sdwellers,

Linking C-Blocks  - Strictly no  because it's a hint to Google that the sites are all related to each other and on the same server, and that the links may not be very natural since there is the good possibility that the same person set them up.

(Above paragraph is excerpt from Keri Morgret reply on this thread @ http://moz.com/community/q/linking-c-blocks)

"External "Followed" Links  vs External links"

External followed links is good but that should be natural & not 100% Do-Follow Links means you don't get links by either of the following activities

1>Reciprocal link

2>Paid links

3>Automatically Generated Links

4>Sites that Sell Links

etc. there are long list.

Last but not least I am quoting Google guideline.

“Any links intended to manipulate PageRank or a site’s ranking in Google search results may be considered part of a link scheme and a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.”

I hope it helps you.

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Hi James,

Yes you can do it by using 301 redirect. I am quoting moz on this issue

"A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link juice (ranking power) to the redirected page. 301 refers to the HTTP status code for this type of redirect. In most instances, the 301 redirect is the best method for implementing redirects on a website."

So it would be best  idea to use 301 redirect in your case,  maximum link juice will pass you don't have to worry about ranking

Second thing I would like to suggest you choose preferred domain from webmaster tools by following steps

Log in to Google Webmaster Tools and follow these steps:

1. Click on your site on the Webmaster Tools home page.
2. Click on the gear icon and then click Site Settings.
3. Find the Preferred domain section and select the option you want.

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Fully agree with Matt-POP.

Hi,

If you are using the same content on both website then that could be the major issue but If you are not using the same content then your site ranking is not down due to exact domain name with different extension.

Second, to clear up something "Google has no way of knowing that your domain is a 'new version' of the old one, unless you tell it. The method for this is a 301 redirect but as you are saying that your site's ranking went down due to algorithm update so there is no point to redirect old website to new.

You can do one thing put a splash page on old website like

"Old website has moved to new website

New website formally old website

& provide a 'click here' link to reach new website (*** No 301 redirect in your case**)

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Hi,

One quick question you want to merge three sites  say A,B & C into D or A+B+C ? As you mentioned that all three domains are exact match domains & are pretty high volume so I wouldn't suggest you to do that.

You also asked from a traffic/conversion/Seo standpoint whether it will be good idea or not?

I have doubt ,l like your idea to make a header on top where people can switch between those sites.

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Hi,

The best way I find to see what the search engines thinks is the best page from your site for a term is to do a site search with the term you are checking.

E.g.

site:yousite.com + Term

In your case : yousite.com + used widgets

This shows you the pages in order that Googles ranks them. Also its a good way to identify duplicated title tags.

Now there is an article published by Rand Fishkin on this issue to know what could be the possible reason to showing wrong category pages and how you can correct them  .Please check once below article

http://moz.com/blog/wrong-page-ranking-in-the-results-6-common-causes-5-solutions

I hope it helps

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Hi,

Here is a recently published a nice article on exactly same issue by Neil patel on 26th feb 15@ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/tactical-guide-making-old-pages-rank-google/124575/

I hope it helps

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Hi Gorge,

I am sharing excerpt from recently published article (26 feb 15) on seroundtable.com .

"Consistent but not identical.The main thing is for you to test and see what works for your site and your rankings and users."

"1. Usability - if title and headline are more or less the same, it's easier for users to identify the page they clicked through to from the result pages as the one they found on the search engine because search engine results use the title as main result element, whereas the element immediately visible on the page is the headline, the title there is invisible as long as users don't know exactly where to look for it. It may therefore irritate users if title and headline differ too much.

2. Keyword prominence - it's obvious that it makes sense to use the same keywords in titles and headlines, simply because a single page should always define it's topic as exactly as possible, which means there will always be only two or three main keywords any given page will be optimized for."

To read full article please visit @ https://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-h1-identical-19923.html

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Hi Charles,

I didn't find article on disavow. I think you are looking for this video where he mentioned disavow domains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5K741AlWg

I'm also sharing all other videos of Matt cutts on disavow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=393nmCYFRtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJZXpnsRsc

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Hi Ravi,

Recently very informative article shared on inbound.org to learn about technical SEO and liked by many SEO experts, I am sharing with you.

http://inbound.org/post/view/a-quick-guide-to-learning-technical-seo-1

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Hi ,

Different cookies have different expiration time. Please check below article for exact cookie expiration time by Google analytics.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

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Hi,

No You don't need to worry . You are pretty lucky to optimize two relevant pages and land those positions so close to each other. Please check step 2 in below article.

http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/07/30/4-steps-to-making-your-search-listings-stand-out-on-google/

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Hi Ravi,

You can create xml sitemap by using https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ but for HTML sitemap I would like to suggest you to create by yourself or ask developer to create.

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Hi Anna,

I have read your query & all of replies very carefully & now I m replying you point by point.

"In short: I believe that GA is counting some of my PPC sessions as organic (not provided). Has anybody come across this before? "

My comment - Not provided keyword is a keyword without keyword referral data.

****There are two types of keywords referral data: organic keywords referral data and paid keywords referral data. ******

The organic keywords referral data tells you which search term was used by a person to visit your website after he/she clicked on an organic search engine listing on Google.

The paid keywords referral data tells you which search term was used by a person to visit your website after he/she clicked on a paid search engine listing on Google. These paid search engine listing are the PPC ads you see on Google.

But since Google doesn’t hide the paid keyword referral data, your web analytics tools like Google Analytics will continue to report the keywords which generated traffic, sales and conversions on your website through Adwords reports.
So IMO your assumption is wrong"I believe they are being counted as organic because of the following:

• the website is brand new and does not rank for anything but their branded terms
• the few keywords showing up in GA are the terms we target our PPC towards"

My Comment - I believe you are doing guess work. This is not possible."- the amount of sessions of Paid Search (in channels) and  AdWords sessions don't match up (The number of actual PPC clicks is substantially higher than the Paid Search sessions)"My comments - Please visit below URL you will know hwy there is discrepancy in session datahttps://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1257084?hl=enNow here is some methods to resolve the issue.I presume auto tagging or manual tagging you are using either one. I hope you are not using both. 1>Install tag assistant to check whether tracking is correct or not2>Hit & trail methodRemove auto tagging or manual tagging whichever you are using for some time after that search any keyword and click on your adWords Ad .After landing on your webpage append this (?utm_source=Anna&utm_medium=paid at the end of url and click enter . Please repeat this search for 3-4 times and you can check after 24 hour whether this data going in organic or paid.*I am running Adwords & Bing campaign since last six years I haven't face this scenario ever.sorry for the long answer it was just to explain you.I hope it helps you.Thanks

Hi Julie,

I 'm not sure what you have done so far to index your site so I am sharing two article on that. You should follow all he steps to get index your site faster.

http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2326164/index-your-content-faster-with-the-fetch-as-google-tool

https://blog.kissmetrics.com/get-google-to-index/

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