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Seems that the IT guys left some old ga.js tracking codes that were activated in some transactions. When you have mixed tracking codes between analytics.js and ga.js this kind of pathological behaviors happen.

Thanks!

Hi!

I don't have any posts on it, it's just from my experience working on international SEO, as Gianluca says.

Hope you already got this solved. If not, maybe this post will help you out: http://searchengineland.com/find-queries-per-url-using-search-analytics-report-google-search-console-gsc-231198

Hi!

I managed several sites that were multilingual and aimed at people from different countries. At first, I didn't put hreflang and people used to see the correct website according to their language and country.

BUT (there's always a but), for example, when people googled the brand name + something, the websites appeared in SERPs with sitelinks, and the sitelinks didn't match the correct language/location.

So, if it isn't much trouble, I would suggest putting hreflang tags, to be sure (kind of) that you won't get into problems like the one I had.

Best wishes Ariel

If I were in your situation, I would probably do exactly as you say you're going to do.

EDIT: maybe using Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager to verify the account would let you take off the part of reaching out to the IT guys, but if they work fast enough it's the same.

Not yet. Still trying different possible causes. Hopefully I'll have some results in the next few days.

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But in that case (when a new session starts), considering that the domain is listed in the Referral Exclusion List, shouldn't the conversion be tracked as direct/(none)?

Hi! Thanks for your response.

I still think there must be a way... I don't understand why some convertions are assigned to the original soruce and some to the gateway. Something must be different in the way users finished their purchase that makes analytics assign them to the original source or to the gateway.

Hi!I've added our gateway payment system to the Referral Exclusion List a few months ago. Nevertheless, it continues to appear as a referral, and obviously taking almost all of the revenue.

Does it work for you? Do you know why could it be not working for my website?Thanks for your response!

Great! I'll just filter those visits directly in Analytics.

Thanks!

Hi!I was seeing on of my clients Analytics report and it shows that some of the main sites that send visits and get tagged as referral traffic are google.com.br, google.cl, google.com.ar, among others.

Do you know why is this happening? Shouldn't they get tagged by default as organic?

Nope, still trying to contact Google to fix this issue.

Thank you both!

Hi!

I need to add in my .htaccess a way to redirect URL that don't end with / to the one thats end wth /.For example, I need http://example.com to redirect to http://www.example.com/. And, of course, this redirection should be only for URLs that don't end with /, so I don't get double // at the end.

I already have the code to redirect the non-www to the www, but can't find a way to do the slash thing.

Thanks!

Yeah, I've seen that article. The problem is that I don't have acceso to the other domain, and that what I did is exactly what it says in the last step, that's why I'm really lost!

I just contacted some people in Google to see if they can check what's going on.

There's no way a user can come from those subdomains without passing from my site first. The path you give as an example is accurate.

Analytics is being tracked threw a tag in Google Tag Manager. You can see the configuration of the tag in http://imgur.com/Pqi3Gt5. Can you find anything wrong?

Yes, but those subdomains aren't from my website, they are from the website of payment gateway from where my visits return to my website after paying.

I'm sorry, what subdomains are you talking about?

Any ideas why this isn't working?

Yes, that's what I did, please check the tho images I attached, one of them (http://imgur.com/IrzKXiY) is a screenshot of the Referral Exclusion in the admin section.

Hi, how are you?
I have my website with Google Tag Manager implemented. Google Analytics is one of the tags I have configured.

The problem is that Referral exclusions aren't working for me. I excluded 3 domains, and I keep seeing them in my Referral Traffic report.
Any idea why this could be happening?

Best wishes,
Ariel

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Thanks everyone for your responses!

Exactly! I'm looking for a social media solution where I can post in several accounts at once, but those accounts are the G+ pages that where created when I created the Places profile.

Hi, how are you?

I have a client that is a company that has aproximately 30 franchises.

For each franchise, I created a Google Places (now My Business) profile, and then for each profile I have a G+ profile.

The problem is that I need a SaaS or a software that allows me to post in each of those profiles automaticaly, like Hootsuite (when I enter with the account I have registered the Places profiles, it catches the G+ profile of that person, not the GPlaces accounts).

Do you know any?

Thanks!

Oh, that's what I thought. I'll contact them.

Thanks for your answer!

Hi, how are you?

I'm Having some problems with my clients Google Places/Plus listings. Everything is OK, but I can't get my website linked. I'm talking about what I point out in the image.

I tried following this instructions: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1713826?hl=en&ref_topic=3052532, but I can't find the Link website button next to my website URL.

Do you know why is this happening?

Thanks!

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Ah! That would explain it!

Thanks!

Just Google traffic, in fatc, just organic google traffic.

Free search engine traffic is 51102. But from those, only 31.418 are new visitors.

GWT says I had 32.850 clics. Could this be it? It only counts new visitors?

Hi, how are you?

I'm having a question becasue of an inconsistency between the data GWT gives and the one GA gives me.

When I see the ammount of clics GWT tells me in february, it says 32850. When I go to Channels --> Organic Search, it says 51014. The difference is really big!

Do you happen to know why this huge gap between data?

Hi! how are you?

I've been working on some of my sites, and noticed that i'm getting lots of crawls by search engines that i'm not intereted in ranking well.

My question is the following: do you have a list of 'bad behaved' search engines that take lots of bandwidth and don´t send much/good traffic?

If so, do you know how to block them using robots.txt?

Thanks for the help!

Best wishes,

Ariel

Hi! How are you?

I'm having a problem: for some reason I don't understand, Google Webmasters Tool isn't indexing the sitemaps I'm uploading.

One of them is http://chelagarto.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml&lang=en . Do you see what could be the problem? It says it only indexed 2 website. I've already sent this Sitemap several times and I'm always getting the same result.

I'd really use some advice.

Thanks!

Thank you both!

I was able to geotarget the subfolder via Webmasters Tool. Now I'll check the results.

Thank you!

Ariel

Hi! How are you?

I'm having the following problem: I have a client that has a big multilingual website, in spanish, portugese and english. The server is in Brazil, but he wants to migrate it to USA. I think that this will affect my SERPs in Brazil, and Brazil is the most important country where we need to be first in SERPs.

I'd like to, somehow, tell Google that http://website.com/pt is for Brazil and http://website.com/es is for Argentina, so I can avoid the problem that I'll have when the migration is completed and I lose my brazilian IP.

Do you have any tips on what should I do?

Thanks!

Best wishes,

Ariel

Hi, how are you?

I'm working with the SEO of a hotel. I completed the Google Places profile, but i'm having a problem: when you go to the map in google maps near the hotel, it shows all the hotels around like in the picture i'm attaching, with little icons like a fork for restaurants, a bed for hotels, a bag for shopping malls.

Do you know what reasons could cause that my hotel isn´t appearing like that, with those icons?

I'll be really grateful if you can help me with this.

Thanks!

Ariel

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Hi you all, how are you?

I'm having a problem with a new client. His website is multilanguage, and he wanted to position his website in Google US, Google Brazil and Google Argentina.

The problem is the following: the client is an hotel chain, and for every hotel they own they have an internal website. Because each internal website is well optimized for the keyword that include the city the hotel is in, now the page is decently positioned with the internal pages, not the home. This is fine by me, but here is the problem. Each language (es, en and pt) ranks better in each country. How would you exchange links? Because I have, for each keyword, three websites, each one in a different languages.

Coul you give me an idea with this? Someone has experienced the same thing?

Thanks!

I'm having one problem with that.

My businness is just one, so Google doesn't let me add listings via uploading an Excel file.

Do you know how can I manage to add it in different languages without an Excel file?

Hi, how are you?

I wanted to ask you if the rankings that Moz shows include the results from Google Places that sometimes appear in the SERPs.

Thanks in advance1

Ariel

Hi how are you?

I work with a big hostel network in South America. When i look for 'hostel (city)', some results from Google Places appear.

The profile in Google Places is in english, but i searched it from google.com.ar. Is it possible to have Google Places' profile in several languages?

Thanks!

Best wishes,

Ariel