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Let's say I built a directory link and it takes a while to go live. Is there a tool that will crawl the site and notify me when the link goes live?

What is the difference between Disallow: /*?utm_ and Disallow: /?utm_  ?

I am trying to block roger from crawling some UTM urls we have created, but having no luck. My robots.txt file looks like:

User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /?utm_source*

This does not seem to be working. Any ideas? 

For example, let's say someone enters via a landing page, and instead of having a form there is a button to a form. What percentage of people will click the button and fill out the form vs if the form was right there on the page? Basically, I am trying to figure out what percentage of users do websites lose for every click a user makes on the site.

Thanks all for the great responses. We actually had a very funky issue where we had set up some event tracking. The event tracking for some reason was preventing or not creating a page view when someone had performed the action. We have since fixed it and everything appears to be working right. Thanks for everyone's help with this, all the articles and comments helped us dig into this and pinpoint what was going on. Thanks again!

Does cloudflare work on state level?

Blitzna10, I agree that we should suggest a page rather than forward them to the page we "think" they should go to. However, I have been out voted ;(.

If we have to forward users to a state specific page, what is the best method to do so? A 301, 302, JS redirect, Some other technology I am unaware of?

Currently we are using a 302.

One website I manage wants to redirect users to state specific pages based on their location. What is the best way to accomplish this?

For example a user enters the through site.com but they are in Colorado so we want to direct them to site.com/colorado.

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I have a website I work with and for the past month we have a reported 36,834 sessions and 25,490 pageviews? How is this possible? If a users comes to the site isn't that a session and a pageview? Or How can you have a session with out a page view?

Thanks Don for your response.

My follow up question would be what to you have has the default index page examplesite.com?

What content is displayed there?

Let's say my website can be accessed in only 3 states Colorado, Arizona and Ohio. I want to display different information to each visitor based on where they are located. For this I would also like the title to change based on their location. Not quite sure how Google we treat the title and rank the site.... Any resources you can provide would be helpful. Thanks

I have a client that has several coupons sites. They have about 15 different URLS all of which are [city]deals.com all of the domains have coupons lists that are relevant to that area. Other than the coupons there is not any other content on the sites. There is a Main site however, that has coupons, content, store locations, blogs, news etc... The coupons on the feeder sites are displayed differently than what is displayed on the main site. They are also categorized differently. So the question is on the feeder sites can they have the coupon link directly to the store page on the main site?

I have seen several sites that have data or some type of information about a website. Often the site appears to be trying show the value of a site. How does Google treat the links this scrapper type sites give? Should these types of links be ignored or should they be disavowed?

Here is an example: http://www.sitetracer.com/www.tourexperience.com

Thanks for all the responses. I guess in some was I was looking for some new info and to see if anyone had recently tested any of this. For example we still use a directory called Family Friendly Sites, it's a great link for a few bucks. I would be curious if any one has truly combed the web to find "Quality Directories".

After combing over several competitor sites I have found many if not the majority of their links are from directories. I am curious to know if individuals/companies/seos etc. still use directories, if so what are some of the favorites?

I do you have Google Webmaster tools installed. If you are penalized for say buying links or cloaking or something like that. Google would send you a message notifying you of the penalty.

Thanks for your help.

I have no clue how to set this up in the Bigcommerce store platform