Hi!

As far as I know, this really isn't a huge problem (could be mistaken). I guess it depends...

In regards to readability, I prefer using dashes (-), as they tend to be easier to read. Underscores may be mistaken for a space). Here's what Matt Cutts had to say about this some years ago: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/whitehat-seo-tips-for-bloggers/ (and http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/)

I believe I have read that Google and other search engines read URLs like this when looking for semantic meanings:

• /this-is-part-of-a-website-address = this is part of a website address
• /this_is_part_of_a_website_address = thisispartofawebsiteaddress

At least that used to be the case...It could be changed now.

In your example, I would not obsess too much about it, as it gives perfect semantic meaning. Have you considered removing special characters, instead of replacing them with a "-" ?

Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Anders

Hi!

It can be a great many things that casues the rankings to be different. Perhaps some of these are fitting to your site:

• Your site gives a better experience than your competitors on mobile
• Your site has a greater CTR from organic search results than your competitors
• (Mobile) page speed
• Font setup on mobile vs dekstop (readability and user experience)

I found this article on SearchEngingWatch that could be of interest to you.

Best regards,
Anders

Hi!

From what I could tell, your sitemap entries are missing at least one tag. Alle entries should have a or <video:player_loc></video:player_loc>tag according to https://developers.google.com/webmasters/videosearch/sitemaps

Hope this helps

Anders

Hi Sander!

According to https://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors it could be of some value to have some sort of geographic keyword in the URL, but I guess it would also be of value to have this as part of the onpage copy, in the title, meta description etc if it is possible to add i a ntural way, without making it look spammy.

If you have some contact information on the page, it could also be valueable to mark it up according to schema.org (same goes for the product information if not already done).

If you are changing the URL, also make sure to 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one.

My 2 cents. Hope this helps

Anders

Hi!

It really shouldn't be a problem if the tracking code is set up correct. If this is the same site as you have on your profile, it appears as if the _utmz cookie is set correctly when navigating from a search page to one of the apartment pages.

But is it the source you are trying to find, or is it the keyword used in the search for the given apartment? Is site search enabled and configured in your GA account?

Good luck, hope this helps.
Anders

Hi Ruben!

I would say that this seems a bit "too much". How about adding a "location" area to the site, and link to it from some sort of main menu instead? Or perhaps one location area to every law section?

Best regards,

Anders

Hi Donna!

According to one of the websites I used, I found that the IP range is owned by At&t Global Network Services Nederland B.v as you said.

Using http://www.iplocationtools.com/194.196.0.36.html I found that this IP is reproted to belong to apple.com. Same goes when going to http://ipaddress.is/194.196.0.36#.U85nh7HzlyI

Does that make any sense?

Best regards,
Anders

Hi Donna!

I know this is really a longshot, but i found this: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/icloud-bug-creates-thousands-of-duplicate-bookmarks/12084. Given that the IP is supposed to be registered to Apple, and that it does not appear to have a host. Could it perhaps be that this is an iCloud server that has a ton of links/bookmarks to your site? I know it's a stretch but still...

If you click on the entry in GWT, are you able to see what subpages are linking your way? And are the links to your site direct links, or do they show as "via intermediate links"? If so, then it could be that someone has scraped your site. Or could it be that your client (or you clients hosting provider) has some sort of backup server or test/staging environment that resides on this IP and that for some reason was available to GoogleBot? See http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/54100/gwmt-show-non-existent-backlinks-via-intermediate-link.

This is just me guessing, to please don't take this as definitive answers/solutions...
I hope you'll figure it out. Please share if you find the answer to this.

Hi!

Have a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJZXpnsRsc

According to Matt Cutts here, you will not do anything wrong with disavowing the links.
My 2 cents...

Good luck, hope this helps!

Anders

Hi!

I don't think this is really SEO-related, but more about user experience. It has been more and more common to let the user decide what is supposed to be happening when clicking links, not making the decissions for her/him.

My 2 cents

Anders

Hi Andrew,

Is it possible for you to have your hosting provider or domain registrar setup a redirect from the old subdomains to the current domain in use?

Best regards,
Anders