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Thanks, I will get back to you if I face an issue.

Thanks, I will work on it and get back once done.

Hi there,

I want to get the Facebook page of a fashion blogger verified. This blogger has around 28,510 likes on her facebook book at the moment, can this Facebook page be verified?

The blogger has been trying to get the FB page verification done for a long time without any luck. Now the blogger wants me to verify her Facebook page. How do I go about the process? It will be great if you can share a step by step process. And how long will it take to get the page verified?

Also, I need to get this done soon, so a quick response will be appreciated. If you want any other info please let me know.

Regards
Deb

Hi Bret, Thank you for answering my questions so well. I will be taking the following steps please respond shortly if I am on the right track:

1. I did not get a manual penalization message in my search console. So I think Google just devalued those links.

But one of the keywords completely disappeared from SERP, how is that possible without any manual penalization, have you come across this before?

Thanks for sharing the John Muller Youtube playlist, it looks very helpful. Already subscribed to the google webmasters channel

2. I will be disavowing only the links I earned through paid product reviews. 
Besides these paid links, how do I identify the naughty links to my site, do I check the spam score of these backlinking sites in OSE(open site explorer). What is the spam limit I should be sticking to? Moz has a metrics from 1-17.

Thanks for taking the time out to help me out. Really appreciate it! Happy Friday!

Thanks so much for the advice. I will take immediate action.

So I am going to ask my bloggers to mark these links with "nofollow"

Some of my web pages which were ranking in 2nd page have disappeared from search probably due to this penalization. Because I remember from my work that I have not done any major changes to the website accept ask bloggers to link back with a product review, which did help to boost rankings for a month as I mentioned earlier.

Need to ask you 2 more questions:
1. How long do think it will take to recover from this penalization once the links are marked "nofollow".
2. Can I somehow de value or disregard (or nofollow i know no follow doesn't make sense but I guess you understand what I mean?) these links from my end of the website or do the backlinking website webmaster has to devalue the link?

For many months I have been following this strategy of hiring high domain authority bloggers to review my products and link back to my website.

For a month or two my rankings improved but now I suddenly lost rankings. Can Google penalize me for hiring bloggers to review my products? Bloggers do mention in the blog that the product was requested for editorial review.

Any tips will be helpful.

Regards
Deb

Hi Trenton,

I will try the suggestions and fixes, will let you how it goes.

I did some research and tried these other fixes.
1. I have added a Event Tracking Code (EDT) to the buy buttons of Paypal and Eway. The EDT is added where the user clicks on the buy button and leaves our website from there. This is done to record the button click and send the report to Google analytics.
2. Enabled 'Auto Return' and Paypal PDT (Payment Data Transfer) which transfers the users GA reports.

So, after applying this I got two transactions recently, but both are recorded under direct traffic in GA Aquisition report. Attaching a snapshot. 
I am not clear where is the traffic coming from. Any thoughts.

Hey Trenton,

Thanks for helping me out. I will try to give me as much coordination possible. Here's the information you asked for:

-My site is built on Magento platform.
-We use two payment gateways 1. paypal.com and 2. eway.com - I guess these are the 3rd party payment gateways you are refering to.

2- So I am in the process of including the GA tracking code on every page of the site.

3- Yes I understand the previous customers cannot be tracked. I tried looking at the user explorer but doesn't show any revenue earned. Attaching a snapshot.

Also, for now, I have including both paypal.com and eway.com in the referral exclusion list. Plus as mentioned earlier in session settings I have made the campaign timeout zero -> Should I be cautious?

Let me know how should I proceed now.

Hi,

Thank you for the tip. Campaign timeout was set at 6 months, I have changed it to zero months now. So no cookies will be saved now, will this have any problems regarding tracking the user's original source page? For example, did he come from a social media platform, guest blog or a returning customer who already knows my brand?

Hi Mozzers, I went through many Q&As in the community this morning. I found a solution where I could just remove the referral site in analytics>admin>property>tracking info>referral exclusion list. So I removed paypal.com which was the main referral traffic. I thought the problem is solved.

Later today I got another order, now the referral traffic is from eway.com, now what? Yes I know I will add this to the exclusion list but there will be many more referral sites.

My main concern is I am not able to track the actual traffic source. How do I do that?

1. Do I need to use google url tracking for all my pages?
2. Do I need to add tracking code in each page of the site?
3. Is there a way to track the actual source of this traffic, now that the transaction is already made but reflects as referral traffic in Google Analytics?

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