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Hi Lesley, thanks for that.  Good to know Im not alone! (feels like groundhog day - i said this very same thing yesterday!)

and ours please!

Further to my question yesterday where all data for Wednesday 31st July 2013 was not showing - the data did reappear yesterday afternoon.

But today, all data for yesterday seems odd - across all my projects visitor numbers appear to be around 40% down on the norm.   Sales were normal, so I wonder if this is another glitch - anyone else seeing strange stats in GA for yesterday?

ours are also stuck on the 15th July.

All my data's back!  Looks like Google have sorted it out

good shout.  I'm glad im not the only one - it means I dont have to worry I've done something daft!

Hi Martijn,

Thanks for your response - this makes me feel much better, thank you!  Roll on juicy data tomorrow.

Looking at my GA stats today for one of my projects and its reporting 0 visitors in the audience overview yesterday - I know for a fact this is incorrect, using the real time viewer I tracked at least 40 people on the site yesterday in the few times I checked.

It is also saying 0 visitors today but from real time I can see solid activity all morning.

The code is all still present and correct on the page (which you would assume given real time still works), anyone else having weird issues today?  It is only effecting 1 of 12 projects.

thanks for the comments chaps.  Im still in 2 minds about the best thing to do...

Google!

I saw a small increase on the 14th and 15th - but no more than I would normally expect over a weekend (retail ecommerce websites).

most sophisticated ecomm platforms wont let this happen - Magento for example, if you refresh or go back after the success page you will get the basket empty page.

what platform are you using?

I have a question!
We have 2 domains operating within the same retail sector.  One of them is for our bricks and mortar business and the other is a new brand we launched as a nationwide e-retailer.   We aggressively built links for the new one and achieved some very good search positioning, where we remained for about 4 months until the google updates of the first half of this year started biting.  The domain never received a warning from google or anything, but the links have clearly been devalued to a point where the domain is now virtually buried for the most competitive terms.

However, the domain does still get around 100-200 visitors per day, and has a DA of 38.

We're thinking about a reshuffle that would involve putting the products in to our brick and mortar business website, and redirecting the brand domain to the bricks and mortar domain.

Thank you for reading this far!  the question is then, is there a danger of the bricks and mortar domain being tarnished by this?  as i said the brand domain hasn't had any notices of penalty from google but it has definitely been hit by updates.

How many links does it have?  anything sub 300 is nothing to be concerned about in my experience.  Google does recognise the need for some sites - particularly large ecommerce sites to have lots of links for navigation.  As a rule of thumb (imo) if it aids natural customer navigation, it's fine.  If its overtly spammy and a deliberate attempt to cury favour in SERPS, its not fine - and apart from anything will ultimately dilute what you're doing by appearing on every page.

i take it ecwid doesnt support the native joomla friendly urls?  are friendly urls and rewrite even switched on in the joomla core config page?

sorry you're absolutely right that h1 is visible.  looks stuffed to me though!

just checked ahrefs - and as usual it shows more links than OSE, but a rapid recent decline and same story - no anchor text matching the search term.

Ok, ill give it up - search term is 'X!X!X!X!' and the site is X!X!X!X!X! (removed)

is your site hosted in apache environment?  if so, read up on htaccess.

https://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&q=htaccess+rewrite+domain+name+alias&oq=htaccess+rewrite+domain+name+alias&gs_l=hp.3..33i21.357.7244.0.7359.34.24.0.8.8.3.492.3860.6j11j3j2j1.23.0...0.0...1c.1.16.psy-ab.qyiAwy78s7g&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47534661,d.d2k&fp=735eacbbf8ea6f2a&biw=1280&bih=908

Something like this should do it;

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.alias_domain.eu [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.main_domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Not sure whether to actually name the term and site in question, but basically it is a very big term for a popular type of home furniture.

Since the algo change, there is a site thats appeared in p2, right behind the market leader in google uk.  The site has a domain authority of 20, and only 84 links - none of which even have the anchor text in question, and infact well over 90% have the same anchor text which is related but different to the search term.

The search term appears on the home page 3 times - once in a 120 character+ keyword stuffed home link title, once in a 100 character+ keyword stuffed h1 tag that isnt even visible on the home page and one in a paragraph that is visible.
The site is badly made and buggy, but its outranking John Lewis, Dunelm Mill etc - very big players in the UK market.

How on earth does that work? They are doing so much google tells you not to and winning big rank!? What is Google doing?

absolutely agree, I dont take Google WMT as the real measure of actual links, but its a pretty accurate barometer of what Google will use to rank your site.

Bing webmaster tools show the same figures today as they did yesterday, so they are still there but google WMT has obviously thought again about which it will index/recognise for link juice.

Has anyone else noticed a huge drop in inbound links in WMT tools today?  I've seen a 50% slump overnight in 2 of my projects.  Definitely something still stirring over at the Google data centres!

What he said!  So far for us we've seen some great wins and a diabolic loss with our projects.  im still holding out for a few days before i panic too much.

I checked a few and the link profiles were ok but not great. I cant help but notice that clicksubmit's own DA is a measly 27 which is odd.

Over all though I cant see anything alarming, so I might give them a go, it's fairly cost effective, and I am tiring of using off shore agencies who promise the earth and deliver either nothing or very dangerous work.
In an ideal world I could add 10 hours to the day so I could build links myself!

As title, anyone used them?  their reviews all sound really positive (if they're real).  The system sounds like an auto submitting back link generator - which can't be good?

Make sure you have a number of publicly accessible pages that really drive home your theme with good meta titles, h tags, image alt tags and key word repetition in your copy.  This could be the home page, welcome pages or about pages.  Im not sure of the target market for your network but you could plan separate landing pages for each user type you hope to attract.
A company blog never hurts also!

hi,

Before Moz were forced to roll back the moz scape I saw a drop in all 3 of my campaigns domain authority;

42 > 39
39 > 35
24 > 22

I am employing differing tactics on these campaigns, one of which i would say leans towards the less white (the one in the middle of those stats). The other 2 however are all clean.

So, did anyone else see a drop in DA before moz retracted the figures? was there an issue with the latest moz update?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Philipp,

Thanks for your response. As I said already I have put UK as my target in WMT (web master tools).

The problem is that as soon as you arrive on my site it is pretty clearly UK only - and it is a furniture site, so who in their right mind would try to buy a 3 door wardrobe from over 1,000 miles away!  hence they leave almost immediately and my bounce is going up.

Hi Mozzers,

I have a UK based ecommerce site, that sells only to the UK.  Over the last month Google has started ranking my site on foreign flavours of Google, so I keep getting traffic coming to my site from Europe, America and the far east that we could never sell to, and as a result bounce is going up and engagement is going down.

They are definitely coming to the site from google searches that relate to my product type, but in regions I do not service.

Is there a way to stop google doing this?  I have the target set to UK in WMT, but is there anything else I can do?  I worried about my UK ranking being damaged by an increasing overall bounce rate.

Thanks