Hi,

I can't recommend the ScreamingFrog enough!
The free version has a limit of 500 pages, so you will need a license.

With such a large site it it recommended to check on the crawl progress to ensure there are no crawl 'loops'
If for example it turns out that a calendar on a page counts as a link for every day then the crawl will likely never finish!
Luckily you can fix such things by creating a URL Exclude rule and the re running the spider.

Kind Regards

Jimmy

Hi,

I certainly wouldn't put the text into an image if you can help it, the more good on page content the better!

The H1 tag describes what the pages is about, if the slider isn't 100% relevant, then being above the H1 is fine.
If it is relevant, then you can always have the H1 above in the code, and then style it in CSS to be below the slider.

Kind Regards

Jimmy

Hi Hans,

Unfortunately IP addresses are not great on a desktop pc, not always but sometimes our Internet Service Provider seems to play havoc with our actual location.

However on mobile it is usually a lot more reliable, so make sure your site is mobile friendly!

As long as you have all your data set up and Google+ and the likes linked then your local listings will work correctly, 
I wouldn't recommend targeting a popular IP location as it is not your true location. Keeping your town/city in your tagging will help for local searches for those who include there location in their searches.

But if your client's ISPs have their IP address located wrongly, I am afraid this is something you cannot compensate for.

Kind Regards,

Jimmy

Hi there,

To get a better idea of your traffic you really need to dig into the Acquisition and Behaviour tabs in Google Analytics.
If you are saying it was a mystery spike in direct traffic, have you checked what the landing pages are? Google translates and the web archive can appear in direct traffic, but are distinguishable from their landing pages.

Did you check that traffic from your email was being reported correctly? Sometimes email can be seen as direct traffic if the email doesn't report the referral, so it is worth checking.

Hopefully this gives you a starting point for further investigation!

King Regards

Jimmy

Hi,

It's more visual in that Google creates an interactive image representing the data whereas your first solution sounds very number driven in a spreadsheet format?
But as it is interactive it still offers the data for you to be able to input into a separate spreadsheet if you wished.

If you had a ten step process you would be able to see all this on one page (You can specify up to 5 pages as your starting step using regular expression).

If your goals have specific steps then yes it would be similar data, the advantage being you would also see any steps taken before or after your goal also.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards

Jimmy

Hi,

It's a more visual approach than a reportable one (though the numbers are always there to be extracted) but I prefer:
Audience > Visitor Flow

It defaults to country, but if you set the Criteria to 'Landing page' and use the setting cog, you are able to set up to 5 pages with regex.

As you already have your starting pages (category pages, product pages etc), it is a good way to see not only how people respond, but also how well they are doing in comparison with each other, such as someone landing on a category page could have more interactions that a product page, so it is of best interest to drive people to the category pages.

It also has the option of segmenting the traffic.

Many Kind Regards

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Hi,

I can't recommend the ScreamingFrog enough!
The free version has a limit of 500 pages, so you will need a license.

With such a large site it it recommended to check on the crawl progress to ensure there are no crawl 'loops'
If for example it turns out that a calendar on a page counts as a link for every day then the crawl will likely never finish!
Luckily you can fix such things by creating a URL Exclude rule and the re running the spider.

Kind Regards

Jimmy

Hi Hans,

Unfortunately IP addresses are not great on a desktop pc, not always but sometimes our Internet Service Provider seems to play havoc with our actual location.

However on mobile it is usually a lot more reliable, so make sure your site is mobile friendly!

As long as you have all your data set up and Google+ and the likes linked then your local listings will work correctly, 
I wouldn't recommend targeting a popular IP location as it is not your true location. Keeping your town/city in your tagging will help for local searches for those who include there location in their searches.

But if your client's ISPs have their IP address located wrongly, I am afraid this is something you cannot compensate for.

Kind Regards,

Jimmy

Hi,

I certainly wouldn't put the text into an image if you can help it, the more good on page content the better!

The H1 tag describes what the pages is about, if the slider isn't 100% relevant, then being above the H1 is fine.
If it is relevant, then you can always have the H1 above in the code, and then style it in CSS to be below the slider.

Kind Regards

Jimmy