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I launched a website earlier this year. Very limited traffic, 200-300 a month. It is an info site for a specialized business. However, when I review my GA traffic reports, 20% of our traffic comes from one city in Virginia. (although the company does business in many states, it does not in Virginia) or anything close. The bounce rate is 97%! Could it be a web scraper or some kind of redirect?

@miriamellis sorry for the delayed response. Within google my business insights the map under directions request only goes up to the state line. There is no doubt that people from Michigan ask for directions to our Toledo Ohio branch.

@gpainter thanks! I will check that out. My lighthouse plugin on both chrome and firefox has stopped working.

@dezzign Thank you! That is great stuff.

I have run lighthouse reports multiple times today, and they have bounced up and down 20 points within hours of each other. A coworker ran hist test that returned a 90 while I scored a 68, my next test was an 88? Is this a common issue. I can understand a few points, but this is insanity!

I have run lighthouse reports multiple times today, and they have bounced up and down 20 points within hours of each other. A coworker ran hist test that returned a 90 while I scored a 68, my next test was an 88? Is this a common issue. I can understand a few points, but this is insanity!

We have a branch in Toledo Ohio, which is close to the Michigan border. Cleary we get calls for direction from Michigan customers. However, our phone reporting does not cross the state line. Any ideas? This happens at other branches that cross state lines as well.

Thanks for the help guys.

I am actually taking about vendor info not products. Like about us and history and summary of services and products offered.  I know unique content is always best practice.  Main concern is accurate content without using lots of resources. As well as not get penalized by google for duplicate content.

thoughts?

If i copy and paste 'about us" from a vendor that we see their products.  What are the issues??

When building content for vendors that  we sell their products? best practices? ok, to copy and paste "about us" info? or will that be flagged as duplicate content.

did google stop indexing images? we had 563 in sept and now we have 1?

I am looking at a site offering different language options via a javascript drop down chooser. Will google flag this as duplicate content? Should I recommend the purchase of individual domains for each country?

i.e. .uk