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Hi Matthew,

Sounds like your ads are competing with each other. It's often called internal competition. Logically, those keywords on your third example can also trigger ads from your second example. It will usually tend to choose the ad performing better but can also show your other ad occasionally.

You can use negative keywords at Ad Group level to prevent this from happening while keeping your current structure. So, for example, on your 2nd category you can add as negative keywords the words: camo and rocket.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

No prob David!

I was pretty sure lol

David,

Can you point out exactly where can I find this information in the link provided from Google Adwords support?

Perhaps I'm wrong, but as far as I know, you can't track a specific lead with just your conversion code. I'll be happy to read more information about it

Hope you clear this out for us.

Hi Ricky,

We came across this issue several times. It can't be done with just Adwords conversion code without using any other software. To achieve this, we use Hubspot with most of our clients to have detailed contact insights.

If you want to try a free software, you can go for Convertable. I've tried it before and works really well. However, I'm not sure if it can tell from what specific Adwords campaigns are your leads coming from.

Hope it helps!

Guillermo

Hi!

This issue have been discussed more than a few times. I don't want to repeat other author's words, so here's your answer:

http://moz.com/community/q/subdomain-blog-vs-subfolder-blog-in-2013-2

Hope it helps.  

Cheers.

According to my experience, it also doesn't add the likes from bitly or other URL shorteners.

Thank you Keri for coming back to clarify the situation.

Richard, here's a useful link you may want that can help you fixing the error 406.

Hope it helps.

Good luck.

Hi Richard,

There's no problem with the br tag on your headline. You can install Moz's plugin for Chrome. It's very handy for analysing how robots read your site. Using this tool, under Page Elements you'll see your headline.

Also, I saw you are using Meta Keywords which are useless. You can remove them.

Kraig, I think you are a little bit confused about meta robots. That tag is fine.

Cheers.

Hi Ian,

Bold and anchor text sure helps. But there's really no official word on this.

I would suggest to always stick to what's best for the user. If you think that highlighting the most relevant phrases will help the user get the article much more faster, then stick to it. These way, you will provide a better user experience and probably reduce bounce rate as well. Users won't get bored by too much text and leave.

Also, you don't want to over optimise your site.

Remember to always build your sites for users, not for robots.

Hope it helps!

Guillermo

Hi Rob,

Thank you very much for taking the time to write such a complete and detailed answer. It was definitely very helpful.

When I was talking about canonicals, I meant to include the tag on the amazon-like site, pointing to my client's site. Not the other way around. The products I manage on that site are loaded with HTML code, so I could perfectly add the canonical tag.

If the content is unique and very well written, it made a little bit of sense. I guess that I will change the content from the local site and put some standard technical specifications.

Again, thank you for your advices!

Guillermo

Hi Davinia,

Thanks for answering. Yes, we are very active on ppc and other channels. But this channel in particular charges a killer commission for every sale.  So we were trying to find a way to place my client's site before this local site on organic results. I'm not sure this will be possible.

Guillermo

Hi,

I have a client with a new e-commerce site which is poorly ranked. Besides his e-commerce, he offers his products in a local site which very similar to Amazon. The description and HTML structure of his products, is the same on both pages.

What do you think? Should I add canonical tags to the Amazon-like site?

Or do I just need to change both contents to avoid duplication?

Hi!

Please read an answer I gave a couple of weeks ago here.

I'm sure you will find it helpful.

Hi!

I'm sorry to disagree with you Dave, but actually, in most cases you need to place your analytics script just before the tag to be more accurate.

You can see the set up for GA tracking code in Analytics Help: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080?hl=en.

Also, if you want more background information, here the guys from Luna Metric have written an excellent article that details where to put the GA snippet and why.

Hope it helps!

Hi!

If your purpose is "to make some bucks", I don't see how you can do this in the short run by creating your own blog.

Building your own blog, if your content is good enough and you are able to engage with users, will help you make your web and your brand more relevant. This way, you will be more likely to increase your quality traffic and your sales as well. Also you can have some income with advertising. It's more of a long term strategy and will have an impact on your social reputation.

On the other hand, writing content for another company will only benefit you on the present. Yes, you will have an income instantly but you won't build any reputation and will be giving credit for your work to others.

It all depends on your strategy. If you are a good writer I'll go for the long term.

Hope it helps!

Great answer Lynn! Glad I read it because I was going to recommend the same thing.

Just wanted to confirm that you were right about GA Events, you are allow to set them up as Goals but you can't set up funnels on them.

Cheers.

Hi Edmond,

Here's the link to a customised report I use very often:

https://www.google.com/analytics/web/template?uid=SO6TxWaxQqiejIYeRhLRWw

It details the most busy time of the day and also the most busy day of the week. I hope you find it useful.

Good luck!

I don't think you will have any problem. It won't be a doorway page or something like that because you are not deceiving the users, you are actually showing them the information they are requesting in the best possible way.

Hi Samuel,

Google won't penalize you in any way if you redirect mobile users to another URL. Here you can find Google's Recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites.

The best way to go for them is building a responsive design, but as you can see, Google encourages mobile redirections too. 

I have never hire anybody to write content but I've seen Hubspot recommending some of their tools to hire external bloggers. These tools are Zerys and WriterAccess.

I'm sorry I cannot give you any insight of these tools, perhaps someone here had an experience with them and can share some comments.

Best of luck.

Hi David,

Did your filter work out?

Remember to always keep an unfiltered View with your raw data.

Thanks for your suggestion Oleg. I'll try your G+ idea and see how it works out.

Cheers.

Thanks for the answer Oleg.

I thought it was a little bit silly too. But since the links aren't being "naturally" build it made me hesitate.

It's difficult to get those links indexed first in our site since some job offers can last just 2 weeks and we need to quickly make outreach to comply with clients.

What if, instead of posting my site's specific job offer link I post my home page?

Hi everyone,

I have a new client that's a huge company and has a disastrous ranking. It's a Human Resources company that among other things, they post job offers on their site in which people have to register to apply.

As a channel to outreach more people, they are using a popular site for job offers on the country. There, the job position is described and they tell users to apply within this channel or on their own site. But there's no actual link to their site.

Will Google find it spammy to post their site's link for that specific job offer on this channel on every job description? No competitor is doing it so it made me doubt a little bit.

NOTE: The job offer channel doesn't allow us to "nofollow" a link. All the links are followed.

Thanks to any suggestion.

Hi!

I've been using Sprout Social to manage my Social Media. I saw a video of Social Bakers and was a little bit curious. I haven't heard of it. So I clicked through an ad to look at their features & pricing. I was surprised to see such high values.

Does anyone has any experience working with this tool? Are this reports providing a lot more of information than the ones that I can handle through Sprout Social?

Thanks for any comment that can help me understand this.

Yes, only organic search results appears

Unfortunately, I don't think you are able to do that.

I found this link that it might help you a little bit more. See under "Discrepancies in Clicks and Visits":

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034383?hl=en

It's not specifically about Webmaster Tools but it can help you understand this miscorrelation even deeper. I've never been able to equal these numbers but I did manage to reduce the discrepancies to the minimum.

From my experience this is probably the case. I saw this miscorrelation a few times but never differing in very high numbers. Also, it could be the case that your GA tracking code is not inside your tag. Is that possible?

I had several clients that were placing the tracking code at the end of the tag.  They've all missed visitors that click quickly through pages on their site before the Google Analytics tracking code executes.

Hi Thomas,

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Please try again later."

Hi Dan!

Google Analytics tracks visitors using cookies, not IP addresses. This way, if an impression of your site is clicked more than once in one session (less than 30 minutes) by the same user, it will still count as one visitor for GA.

Hope that helps.

As Federico said it could be because it's a recent change. Also perhaps you are getting traffic for those urls from other source. Is that possible?

You can always go for 301 redirects and be sure that your customers are visiting the page you want.

Here I found a post about a very similar problem to yours. Maybe it could help you.

http://moz.com/community/q/non-canonical-pages-still-indexed-is-this-normal

Hi Rahul!

I recently answer a very similar question. Lynn Patchett comment was extremely helpful as well.

Check it out:

http://moz.com/community/q/are-reciprocal-links-with-a-pandalized-site-harmful

Hope it helps.

Hi!

Reciprocal links may have a reputation of being spammy but it's not a black hat practice and should't be avoided if it makes sense. It's normal for businesses to work together or share relationships and link to each other.

Just like having and ad, from  a SEO perspective it won't hurt you. I don't think that it will help you very much in your ranking either. I guess that you will get most benefit in the traffic that come from those links as high quality potential clients.

Hi Ringo!

It really depends on what kind of video you want to make. Animation videos are very used nowadays. You can see Crazy Egg's site as a very good example of how to promote a product by these types of videos. At least in my country, to hire someone to design this, is kind of expensive and learning Adobe After Effects to do it yourself can take a lot of time.

I found the solution on Wideo which allows you to make a pretty decent animated video very fast and "as easy as editing a doc in Word". I hope it helps!