Thanks Matt - I'll check the sources.
Rankings are great and have increased week on week so its not this. Organic traffic is up week on week as well.
The ratio or new vs rtn is the only thing to have changed.
Thanks again
B
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Thanks Matt - I'll check the sources.
Rankings are great and have increased week on week so its not this. Organic traffic is up week on week as well.
The ratio or new vs rtn is the only thing to have changed.
Thanks again
B
Thanks Matt,
Yes I have checked other clients stats and everything is fine.
I can't work it out, thanks for your input though
GB
Hi Mozzers,
I have a client that gets loads of traffic and since the 15th February there has been a decrease in New Visitors and an Increse in Returning.
Traffic levels are the same. The returning is up and new are down by a long long shot.
Have Google changed the way these visits are calculated? I can't see anything on the blog - anyone experiencing similar issues
Bush
Hi Mozzers,
I have a client that wants to change the way the meta description for some of his pages is being displayed.
I've tried using the NOOPD and NOYDIR tags and its not worked.
This isn't the client but perform this search in Google.ie -
"accommodation newry daft"
See how Daft.com (2nd results down) has the text "10+ items" in the description- my client has this as well as do many other competitors but its not present in the meta description tag.
Anyone know how to get rid of this and get the good old meta descrition in the SERPs?
Thanks
BUsh
Thanks Guys
Have a great weekend,
Bush
Thanks guys - what if the sitemap has not been indexed yet? Its not been submitted so is there not an equivalent of the 'site:' command in WM tools with no sitemap submitted?
cheers
Hi Mozzers,
Very quick question. Google WM tools interface has updated and I want to confirm I'm looking at the correct figure.
If I look up 'Your site on the web' / 'search queries' / then the 'pages' - this is correct indexation figure yes?
This differs from the 'site:' command but that's always the case.
Can anyone confirm,
Thanks
Hi Egol,
Its very strange - I expect this with news related stories but I've not seen it for terms related to service or products that don't trigger QDF.
Maybe G has changed the way they are indexing content ie more regular but not displaying the details in cache? I've checked for social signals for the competition and they are non existent.
Very strange
bush
Hi Ryan,
I checked with the client and they would prefer we don't say -sorry.
They are a provider of web hosting services so the keyword is not effected by any QDF algo or anything like that.
I just keep seeing the SERPs flip around which is very strange
thanks
Gareth
Hi Mozzers,
Can anyone help me please. I have a client that is ranking in position 2 for his major keyword in G.co.uk.
He's been moving up but over the last 7 - 10 days he's moved down, then back up and around and around the front page which we all know can happen.
The thing is - this is changing through the day 4 or 5 times in some cases. I've checked when the first page of the SERPs have been indexed via the cached button and normally Google hasn't crawled the competition or my guys site on the given day the changes happen, yet he's been 2, 5 and 7 and back to 2 in about 3 hours.
Are these social signals do you think? whats going on - any ideas?
Cheers
Bush
Thanks Yannick - really helpful
cheers and have a good weekend
Bush
Hi Yannick.
Thanks for your reply. The / redirect to /home redirect has been done and the / is excluded.
I'm limited as to what changes I can make. I can amend the robots.txt to crawl / which is 301's to /home and that way the links will be attributed and the 301 remains.
Will that be beneficial do you think?
Bush
Hi Mozzers,
Can you answer something for me please.
I have a client and they have 301 re-directed the homepage '/' to '/home.aspx'.
Therefore all or most of the linkjuice is being passed which is great. They have also marked the '/' as nofollow / noindex in the Robots.txt file so its not being crawled.
My question is if the '/' is being denied access to the robots is it still passing on the authority for the links that go into this page? It is a 301 and not 302 so it would work under normal circumstances but as the page is not being crawled do I need to change the Robots.txt to crawl the '/'?
Thanks
Bush
Wayne - you've been really helpful thanks.
Much appreciated - I'll check the link graph out in more detail now
Bush
Hi Wayne,
Thanks for your response. May I ask what the 60 day delay was down to?
They are of similar themes yes. I really like the idea of contacting the providers of the current links as well.
At this point I'm going off the stats on flippa so need to dig deeper on traffic and domain age etc.
Any negatives? If we do it we'll do it once and once only but will Google hit us with anything?
Bush
Hi Mozzers,
I have a question regarding a tactic I'm considering for a client. My client has a web hosting company and is ranking well for his keywords and in position 3 for his main term.
There is a site available on flippa that is a keyword rich domain and has a decent link portfolio and domain authority and the price is attractive.
I'm considering buying it to 301 it to his domain but I've never done this tactic before.
Is this grey/black hat? Has anyone done this before and to what extent did it work?
Thanks
Bush
Hi James,
Can I ask if you have seen a big jump in returning visitors please since the session upadate? The growth I've seen in Google is mainly returning visitors and I think GA has calculated these visits twice as the session parameters are out of whack.
Cheers
Bush
Hi - Yes I've seen my clients metrics move and there are a tonne of p155ed off people out there on the Anlaytics forum and here as well - http://www.seroundtable.com/google-analytics-session-definitions-13872.html
I've been looking into this and I think just as many who have left comments, that there is a bug when calculating the session times or returning visits incorrectly being flagged as a traffic source.
There is definitely big issues around the session update.
Bush
Hi All,
I've recently seen some of my clients experience drops in Yahoo.co.uk.
Does anyone have any info on any algo changes or updates?
Thanks
Bush