Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Next question.

-- Person shares a link from our site. Someone else sees it in their feed in tweedeck and clicks. That click through is recorded as a direct.

Anyway to combat that issue?

Well, we have not done a comprehensive job of using tracking parameters, so I am assuming that's part of the slippage. Also, we have share links on millions of pages that our visitors use. So folks clicking through from tweetdeck and the like from those links would show up as directs.

Thanks. We do use parameters, so we're covered there, but we are seeing an increasing number of directs in sources, which I assume is from tweedeck, et al. Thanks for the clarification!

Hey, How do shortened links show up in GA? So if I tweet about something and use bitly, does twitter get the referral? I am thinking not. I have never seen bitly show up as a referrer, but we gets lots of clicks from those links. Hmmmm. Anyone?

E

Hello there,

My site is basically an Ajax application. We assume lots of people link into deep pages on the site, but bots won't be able to read past the hashmarks, meaning all links appear to go to our home page.

So, we have decided to form our Ajax for indexing. And so many questions remain.

First, only Google handles indexable Ajax, so we need to keep our static "SEO" pages up for Bing and Yahoo. Bummer, dude, more to manage.

1. How do others deal with the differences here?

2. If we have indexable Ajax and static pages, can these be perceived as duplicate content? Maybe the answer is to disallow google bot from indexing the static pages we made.

3. What does your canonical URL become? Can you tell different search engines to read different canonical URLs?

So many more questions, but I'll stop there.

Curious if anyone here has thoughts (or experience) on the matter.

Erin

Oh, duh. missed the dropdowns. Not your UI, just me multi tasking. Thank you!

Does SEOMoz have a tool that allows me to see backlinks to a specific URL sans redirected URLs?

So, URL is www.website.com/search.

www.website.com redirects to www.website.com/search and I want to see how many people have linked to the /search, the resulting URL.

Thanks for any help!

Erin

How is the toolbar different that a serp? i assume they can track the same stats in both. Curious.

yslow for firefox

and good old Google Webmaster Tools

Hey guys, Thanks for the info, but I really interested in the following: do you believe (based on fact, testing) that Ggle takes bounce rate into account in the algos, and if so, how do they do it? There should be a separation between ggle analytics and the search engine, so do they determine it by time?

Hello there,

My site is basically an Ajax application. We assume lots of people link into deep pages on the site, but bots won't be able to read past the hashmarks, meaning all links appear to go to our home page.

So, we have decided to form our Ajax for indexing. And so many questions remain.

First, only Google handles indexable Ajax, so we need to keep our static "SEO" pages up for Bing and Yahoo. Bummer, dude, more to manage.

1. How do others deal with the differences here?

2. If we have indexable Ajax and static pages, can these be perceived as duplicate content? Maybe the answer is to disallow google bot from indexing the static pages we made.

3. What does your canonical URL become? Can you tell different search engines to read different canonical URLs?

So many more questions, but I'll stop there.

Curious if anyone here has thoughts (or experience) on the matter.

Erin