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Yup, that's what I thought. Nope, no domain in the code. Thank you very much for the help Jared.

Hello Jared,

Here is an example of what I'm doing. The domain I was tracking was www.originaldomain.com for my website and now I have switched to a new domain www.newdomain.com. Still the same website but a different domain. I am cancelling the old domain and just using the new domain from now on.

So if I keep the same GA account and change the domain in the settings, will the old data stay or will I lose it?

If I am changing my domain for my website and want to keep using the same Google Analytics account to keep the data from the old domain. How should I proceed? Do I have to start a new Google Analytics account for the new domain? If so how do I keep the old data? Or can I use the same GA account?

Thank you.

Thanks Robert, me too!

Yes, please PM me anytime.

Robert, I definitely understand what you are saying and know that there can be no leaks. But in the mean time your team could work with the candidate on his online reputation management. By creating non campaign media and content and optimizing it for the targeted keywords which will be the candidates full name.

A great example of a candidate who failed at this preparation was GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Danny Sullivan wrote about here. For four years leading up to his announcement to run, his campaign should have had a team working on his online reputation management problem. So that by the time he announced it, his name would have owned the first three pages of the SERP's. Instead, for most of his campaign the number 2 result on Google was a website defining Santorum as something disgusting that you wouldn't want your grandmother to find and negatively affecting his online presence. For most of the campaign there were two other negative sites that also showed up on the first page for his names SERP. If you ask me, I believe it could have been avoided.

I understand that your possible candidate probably isn't as high profile but that doesn't mean it won't get ugly during the race. I believe it would be better to own the SERP's now than have to try to play catch up. I hope that is helpful.

Hello Robert,

I have some experience working with political candidates and what you definitely need to prepare for is online identity management. I would say that is going to be 75% of your efforts. I would start on that immediately after you make your decision and saturate the SERP's targeting the candidates name. I would suggest heavy video marketing and Press Release marketing as well to help with these efforts. Also take advantage of the grass roots folks to help with Social Media and Blog marketing. If you would like some more info you can contact me directly.

Brian

Sorry Jason, I should have put the description of the tool for those that don't know about it. I added it to the question and will post it here as well; This tool analyzes the content of a given page and extracts the terms that appear to be targeted at search engines. It applies certain weights to HTML elements and other on-page factors to determine what it thinks is a targeted term.

It was a great tool to use for competition research to discover targeted keywords compettiors were using.

Do you miss SEOmoz's Term Extractor Tool and want them to bring it back? If you do, please go to this link and submit a feature request form.

Here is a brief description for those that are not familiar with what the SEOmoz Term Extractor Tool is;This tool analyzes the content of a given page and extracts the terms that appear to be targeted at search engines. It applies certain weights to HTML elements and other on-page factors to determine what it thinks is a targeted term.

Hello Keri,

Thank you for the heads up and the alternatives. Please let me know if you here of anymore. How could I suggest to bring it back?

I know that using either 301 or 302 will fix the problem of duplicate page content. My question would be; is there an easier way of preventing duplicate page content when it's an issue with the URL. For example:

URL: http://example.com

URL: http://www.example.com

My guess would be like it says here, that it's a setting issue with the server.

If anyone has some pointers on how to prevent this from occurring, it would be greatly appreciated.

Do you miss SEOmoz's Term Extractor Tool and want them to bring it back? If you do, please go to this link and submit a feature request form.

Here is a brief description for those that are not familiar with what the SEOmoz Term Extractor Tool is;This tool analyzes the content of a given page and extracts the terms that appear to be targeted at search engines. It applies certain weights to HTML elements and other on-page factors to determine what it thinks is a targeted term.

If I am changing my domain for my website and want to keep using the same Google Analytics account to keep the data from the old domain. How should I proceed? Do I have to start a new Google Analytics account for the new domain? If so how do I keep the old data? Or can I use the same GA account?

Thank you.

Hello Robert,

I have some experience working with political candidates and what you definitely need to prepare for is online identity management. I would say that is going to be 75% of your efforts. I would start on that immediately after you make your decision and saturate the SERP's targeting the candidates name. I would suggest heavy video marketing and Press Release marketing as well to help with these efforts. Also take advantage of the grass roots folks to help with Social Media and Blog marketing. If you would like some more info you can contact me directly.

Brian

I checked myself and his site is still indexed. I am having a major issue with my site as well. I was ranking high for a bunch of keywords for several Months now, I checked tonight and I've dropped significantly in ranking. I'm pretty sure my site is compliant with Googles webmaster guide. I'm a stickler for white hat SEO and pretty sure I'm clean but I could be wrong. I've been doing SEO for almost a year now professionally and I've never experienced a drop like this and I'm still indexed and it's only in Google that I dropped.

I think Jegghead's problem is the rankings he saw were the false inflated rankings typically seen after first submitting a site to be indexed. I've seen it several times before with sites I've submitted.

Robert, I definitely understand what you are saying and know that there can be no leaks. But in the mean time your team could work with the candidate on his online reputation management. By creating non campaign media and content and optimizing it for the targeted keywords which will be the candidates full name.

A great example of a candidate who failed at this preparation was GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Danny Sullivan wrote about here. For four years leading up to his announcement to run, his campaign should have had a team working on his online reputation management problem. So that by the time he announced it, his name would have owned the first three pages of the SERP's. Instead, for most of his campaign the number 2 result on Google was a website defining Santorum as something disgusting that you wouldn't want your grandmother to find and negatively affecting his online presence. For most of the campaign there were two other negative sites that also showed up on the first page for his names SERP. If you ask me, I believe it could have been avoided.

I understand that your possible candidate probably isn't as high profile but that doesn't mean it won't get ugly during the race. I believe it would be better to own the SERP's now than have to try to play catch up. I hope that is helpful.