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Hi Alick,

Thanks for your reply.

So just to clarify you are confirming that target blank links are seen as outbound links and are not tracked in acquisitions under referrals?

Thanks again.

Hi,

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

I have been reading up on this topic but there is some contradictory articles out there and I was hoping someone could clarify the latest practise for me.

Website A links out to four of its partner websites.
These links are using a target="_blank".

When i look at the acquisition data for any of the partner websites there is zero referral data from site A. 
I tested this wasn't an analytics bug by using the real time feature while clicking the partner links to see what had happened, and to also find the source, but I found that they are all being returned as a source direct. Ideally id like it to show the referrals once more for reporting purposes.

Do I need to add extra google analytics parameters/functions to track the outbound links? or should this referral data be appearing correctly and it is something unrelated to the links themselves? or should I throw in the towel and drop the target blanks?

Thank you in advance for your time.
Best Regards.

Hi,

I have a website that I has two Campaigns, one is its performance in the UK and the other is in America. Both of these project use to work and gather information from Google analytic's but recently the UK campaign has started saying it can not connect to Google analytic's and stopped providing information.

The problem is both the UK and US campaigns use the same analytic's tracking code and the US campaign can still gather Google analytic's information so I know the tracking information is correct still.
why can the UK campaign no longer connect properly?

Thank you in advanced.

Hi everyone,
Iv recently been asked to review a group of sites.

There are 3 sites, each of these sites has a link to the other two sites within the footer or the navigation.
These site are about a similar topic each provides a different perceptive or aims at a specific section of the industry so its not like the links are to irreverent sites.

However because the links are in a global section they are repeated thousands of times on each site and count for a large proportion of the link profile to each site, I don't think this is good practise and I want to remove them or at least add a no-follow but my client insists they are relevant to each other and doesn't not want the links removing.

What would be best in this situation? remove them? no-follow them? or leave them?

Thank you in advance,
Liam

I would say 1.

Personally I would be less likely to give information like my full name and phone number than just my email address.

Hi everyone,
Iv recently been conducting a link analysis on one of my sites, I downloaded the list from web master tools, but iv noticed a number of links coming from a search engine websites.

At a glance there are maybe 10-15 links from these search engine sites each with a slightly different domain name (e.g: 10search.com, 20search.com, 30search.com etc.) but the same design, same logos and similar results.

What effect would these links have? and should I remove them?

Thank you in advance

Thanks Andre and David,

I will look into changing the alt tags to something more descriptive and changing the optimisation of the keywords within the page.

Thanks again for your help.

Hi Everyone,

I've been informed recently that keyword within your image alt tags can be a trigger for penguin if you have your keyword mentioned too often on the page (over-optimisation).

I'm not sure I understand why though, the reason for this is, we have a page which features a picture and a description of a product. The page title, heading, a mention in content and image alt all contain a keyword which is the product name.

I've been told to remove these alt tags but aren't alt tags important for screen readers and other W3C complacency issues, so removing the product names from the alt (which also happens to be the keyword for the product pages but is best describing what the image is) would make these image useless to users with certain disabilities, so if its true that doing this can be a negative signal isn't this breaking googles guidelines by not providing good content for those users?

Would it be better to remove these alt tags or attempt to remove keyword elsewhere on the page? or can anyone suggest something else?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks Chris,
I have noticed a great amount of inconstancies between each of the linking analysis software (wish they all had the same its would make things so much easier haha) is there a particular link analysis software you would recommend?

I use open-site explorer, a free link analysis tool by Internet Marketing Ninjas and web master tools at the minute.

Hi Everyone,
I've started doing some link analysis on one of my site that has over nearly 800 links in total (which I got from the webmaster tools downloading the latest links).

When I go on to Google and use the "link:www.mysite.com" directive it will only display 12 links. Does this mean Google is only counting 12 links from the link profile?

Iv checked the freshness of some the links it wasn't displaying within Google to check they hadn't all expired. Links from march 2013 still don't appear.

This sites link profile has been untouched for at least a year now and is full of directories many of which have a page rank of N/A hence my question. (I'm surprised it hasn't been hit by penguin!)

Thanks in advance.

Thanks Michael,
I've done this and it seems to be able to fetch the pages without any issues, I was thinking the error message above may have caused most of my pages to drop to a page rank of N/A but if it can fetch them successfully this must be untrue.

Can anyone think of any other reason why this might have happened?

Hi Everyone,
A few weeks ago now I received a "Googlebot can't access your site..... connection failure rate is 7.8%" message from the webmaster tools, I have since fixed the majority of these issues but iv noticed that all page except the main home page now have a page rank of N/A while the home page has a page rank of 5 still.

Has this connectivity issues reduced the page ranks to N/A? or is it something else I'm missing?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks guys I try to keep up on the followings on a few forum sites along with some youtube subscriptions, I been using them to teach myself what I can.

I'm actually more of a web developer than a SEO but my boss is wanting me to do a more on the SEO side.  I enjoy both side to my job and I'm not intending on giving up on either any-time soon unless they have no need for an apprentice anymore.

I'm having more of an issue with practical application at the minute, I get time during the week to do my research but I also have to attempt to improve some sites I'v created, I like to think I'm doing a good job on them (I'm probably not haha) but I'm starting to struggle with things like how to do effective link analysis which isn't something I feel like I can read about and then know what I'm doing. I learn best by watching and doing which I'm finding hard within the smoke and mirrors that is SEO haha.

HI everyone,
I'm quite new to SEOmoz and to the SEO industry.
I like to think that I have a basic knowledge of SEO now after a few weeks of reading article, books, watching videos etc. but I'm struggling with the practical application.

Not to long ago to found out that "keyword" weren't reference to meta keywords as some of these articles had said, this turned my understanding upside down for some time until I did more research on keywords. Iv also found that some parts of the SEOmoz "beginner's guide" are outdated, which Iv read from cover to cover.

But this got me a little concerned, how do I know any of the information iv spent my time learning is correct and not outdated?

So I was hoping does anyone know of any recent up to date resources/guides/case studies/ practical application case studies I can have a look at?

Thank you in advance