Moz will look at your site and pick keywords based on your content. If you are looking at researching new keywords I like using http://ubersuggest.org/ to get additional keyword suggestions.
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RE: Moz have any keyword Suggestion tools or any best tools
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RE: Referral Exclusion List - Data Questsion
I had a similar problem on a site awhile ago, the issue was not with the analytics code but with the site which had a large amount of java galleries and procedurally generated content which would somehow create small interstitial pages when generating pages and redirect from them to the actual pages.
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RE: Need Help: Trouble With Website and Analytics
Honestly I would not worry about it to much, their yelp page has a lot of positive reviews so it would hurt them to change that. You could try adding a CAPTCHA onto the contact form on the site to dissuade sales people and stop auto fill bots, but that could inconvenience potential customers so you will need to weigh the pros and cons. You could try adding their number to no-call lists to see if that helps, but I don't think that there will be a ton of calls in the long run, things like this tend to happen a bunch for a week or two then drop off.
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RE: Do we need to post unique content on every Social media website?
Bas is 100% right, you do not have to but each social media outlet's audience act differently. To get the most out of your social media postings you should tailor your message delivery and content based on each platforms strengths and what your customers respond best to on each independently.
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RE: Domain added to the url
Karin,
We had this same problem on our Wordpress site, it comes from improperly coded link on pages that had certain modules active (it was fixed by making the link absolute). You can use Moz's crawl diagnostic tool to email yourself a CSV then look for the errors and go across to the referral column to find which page has the erroneous link, from there you can edit your content to fix it.
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RE: Goals tracking across subdomains
Ben,
I assume you set up your GA account awhile ago and are still using the old code, you have two options to fix this. The first is you can keep your old code but change it to also have cross domain tracking, the other, and better option is that you upgrade your tracking to use the most current version as you will need to do this eventually.
I also recommend looking into Google Tag Manager as it allows for easy advanced tracking implementations.
Cross domain guide for analytics.js: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cross-domain
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RE: Can you have an SSL cert but still have http?
They could have the SSL for transactions. It was very common a few years ago (and many sites still do this) to have a site be http: and then once you start into their transaction funnel (such as a purchase) to switch over to https:
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RE: Facebook Likes
That is your page's social metrics not your whole FB page. It is pulling from FB and counting the times that your home page has been linked to from FB and the number of likes on those posts.
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RE: Domain added to the url
You will need to open the CSV with a spreadsheet program (upload it to Google Docs). From there you can go to the referral column and it will tell you which page the error is linking from. You will then need to edit the place on the page where the error is occurring or find if you have a widget on the page that is throwing the error.
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RE: Goals tracking across subdomains
If you are seeing a break then something is causing it between your sub-domains, is there an auto-loading interstitial page or redirect of some kind being used?
I recommend Tag Manager as it makes defining click based events easier and the Tag Assistant tool for Google Chrome can be very useful in figuring out what is causing weird problems with your Google Analytics and other on site tools.
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RE: Redirecting a Few URLS from One Domain to Another
I would be very leery about redirecting across domain for just some pages while leaving others, it seems like this practice could easily be viewed as negative by Google.
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RE: How can I track if a landing page assists a lead/goal to another page in Google Analytics?
You could create a segment for just traffic from that campaign (based on your utm_campaign) and make sure that generating the lead is set up as a goal. From there you can go to the Conversion -> Goals -> Goal Urls and see which of your product pages have conversions.
Segment Building: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3124493?hl=en
Goal Set up: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1032415?hl=en
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RE: Copy writing services?
I would argue against Fiverr, not just on the grounds that it cheapens the landscape, but mostly due to the quality. I tried using it multiple times from semi-technical and click bait style articles and every time the quality was poor to the point that editing them took more time and effort then just writing them would have been.
I agree with Alberto about Odesk.com, it is a great resource to find freelance writers with.
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RE: Some goal conversion in Google analytics showing under referral
Have you tried adding in the automatic cross domain tracking to pass your cookie to paypal and epdq.co.uk?
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cross-domain#autolink
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RE: Redirecting a Few URLS from One Domain to Another
I would not risk it unless you are shutting down website B completely, otherwise you can beef up your content on site A or your ability to convert on site B.
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RE: Duplicate Content for Event Pages
Google does not penalize for duplicate content. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en
That being said, these page's won't really be accessible from a search engine because Google will see them all as the same. For map event pages I personally would have them not indexed and create a series of landing pages with links off to the different event times so that you can get organic traffic looking for those events in general and then funnel them to the signup pages.
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RE: How I can exclude "Events" & "Traffic" from a specific IP?
If you are filtering out your office I.P. it should be blocking all traffic from that I.P. Make sure that you are looking at your stored data and not your live analytics as sometimes new filters do not immediately register for the live data.
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RE: Google Analytics - Organic Search Traffic & Queries -What caused the huge difference?
While I would need a lot more information or time in your GA to get to the bottom of this, here are some questions:
Did you make any changes to your site code or GA account settings in February?
Did your impressions fall during this time as well or just your clicks?
Are your keywords seasonal, based on specific dates or events?
Do you have an alert in GWMT about your site?
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RE: Webmaster Tools Verification Problem
There are a few things you will want to check.
Make sure that the account that linked the GWT and GA has not changed (such as an agency account did it then left) because the owner of the GWT account determines the verification code.
See if they updated their Google Analytics to Universal, if they have the wrong code/combination it can cause problems. Also with using the GA code to authenticate, make sure that it is placed in the right place (you can use Tag Assistant browser plug in from Google).
As for why it went away, Google will periodically check the authentication to make sure it is still there in case ownership changes, so it is not odd after site changes for this to occur.
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RE: Why have we taken such a hit on page visitors?
Increasing your load time by more than half will definitely have an effect on your rankings.
Instead of looking at traffic, why not look at conversions. There are ways of spoofing traffic that is no good, who cares if they lost 500 visits per day if none of those visits were buying their product or partaking in other conversion (email sign up, content interactions). I would look deeper into the traffic that is lost, see where it was coming from and what it was doing on the site to see if you lost useful traffic or not.
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RE: Google Analytics - Organic Search Traffic & Queries -What caused the huge difference?
In general structure changes can cause changes in traffic, for your conversion you should also look at your GA goals and how (if any) your events are programmed.
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RE: Webmaster Tools Verification Problem
You should not lose historic data but re-linking the account with your credentials should fix any problems that you are having.
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RE: Meta tags
Honestly there is not much value to a visitor on those pages, if they are looking for a specific brand then they should land on the brand page. I would Canonical all of those pages to the All Brands page and not worry about placing descriptions on each one.
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RE: Google Tag Assistant showing Error
You should try to remove your code from the
in your checkout process and put it in the direct as a best practice. The only problem you may run into is that GA in GTM (or any other tags you have) will only load and the data layer will only be able to pull information from that. If youris the entire checkout page you will only see a disconnect within your footer or other universal elements.
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RE: Why is Google Webmaster Tools showing 404 Page Not Found Errors for web pages that don't have anything to do with my site?
What do you mean "pages that have nothing to do with my site" are these not on your domain or are they on your domain but you are not familiar with them?
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RE: Removing UpperCase URLs from Indexing
Another quick fix would be to use a canonical tag on all of your pages pointing to the full lowercase versions.
So for the URLs example.com/UPPER; example.com/Upper; and example.com/upper you would place the following into the head so Google knows that these are just variations of the same page, and if will point search to the desired page example.com/upper
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RE: Page Name Tracking - Without UTM links
Look into using Google Tag Manager, then you can set up events based on specific rules, such as the video play click or light box opening button. While it takes a bit of time to get used to and learn the system, it is very simple once you understand how it works and you can do this plus any additional conversion tags for advertising without having to get a developer involved.
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RE: Why put rel=canonical to the same url ?
This is done for pages that may have additional information added to the url in a query string. While I prefer to have all pages canonical to themselves, I highly recommend doing it to any home page or landing page that can have multiple external links pointing to it.
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RE: Will merging sites create a duplicate content penalty?
You will be fine with redirects, also remember that Google has said that duplicate content is not an issue as long as it is not malicious.
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RE: Track subdomain in analytics
Using universal is it not hard to, you can just place the code onto the 3rd party site. To make it easy to look at you will want to make a find and replace filter to target only the traffic to your 3rd party site and change the URI so that it will make more sense when looking at it (if you do not then it will see your home page and the main page of the jobs site as just "/"). Make sure that you set up a test profile for your filters so that you do not cause problems with your data. This is the more complex way of looking at it, if you only care how many people click off to your jobs section and not how they interact with it you can place event tracking code onto any link that goes to the job section.
All of this is much easier if you use Google's Tag Manager as the cross domain linking or adding custom event calls become even easier to implement.
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RE: Mobile webpages
If you have separate pages for mobile and desktop that contain different information then yes, you should make sure that your meta and title reflect the information that is displayed on the page per device.
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RE: Should I change my permalink structure?
While you will always loose some ranking with large site wide restructures, you can minimize it by having your redirects in place as soon as you make the shift. When I do restructures or site re-launches I create a large CSV that has all of my current URLs and the corresponding URL that it will update to. Double check the list and use it as a checklist to make sure all of your old content properly redirects to the new. On a side note, when doing something like this it is a good time to update your site to secure as you are already redirecting the majority of your pages, so redirected them to the https: version is not much extra work.
As for if you should do this, that will depend on your site goals and if adding the date in the url would benefit your visitors or corresponds with another digital part of your digital strategy.
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RE: How can you have more pageviews on a website than sessions?
I have seen something like this before, it was a code error on the site, but they can be extremely hard to track down, if you can locate the page that these unknown page views are being seen at it will narrow down your search.
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RE: How to deal with duplicated content on product pages?
If the products are all but the same besides color, would you be able to implement something like amazon has, where each product is only one page and you select the color/size option within the the product framework? This way instead of having a bunch of pages that are basically the same product, all of your effort can go to one page per product.
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RE: Complex Rankings Issue For A Law Firm Site
Brian, a 301 is a permanent redirect, so while you have turned them off the link has already been associated with your new domain. I would recommend reinstating all your 301s so that any legitimate traffic going to any of your links gets to your new site and then go through and disavow all of your spammy links. In general, when you have any spammy links you should ask for their removal and then disavow them if they are not removed while still creating 301s from all of your old pages for both legitimate links and traffic.
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RE: Dynamic vs. static URLs
Sandra, be very careful with the statement you just made. One of the most dangerous things you can start doing is putting yourself in as a stand in for your customers. Google has seen correlation between search relevance and clean URLs, and when looking at web pages a clean url reinforces a persons want to click on it (page trustworthiness), while a large alpha-numeric string looks worse and is viewed as less trustworthy by the average person.
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RE: Should I change my permalink structure?
You put all the work into those articles, why would you throw away all the search relevance that they have earned? I would never ever move content and not redirect it, no matter how many 301s I would have to add.
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RE: Crawlers reporting upper case letter url versions although these have been 301'd to lower case !?
How long ago did they make the updates? Did you also update your sitemap to no longer have uppercase versions in it?
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RE: Canonical Tag when using Ajax and PhantomJS
If you can actually load the regular URL then you should canonical to it (it is best practice to canonical all of your pages to themselves), but if going to that page just redirects to the escaped fragment then you should update how your site build is set up so that you don't have the escaped fragment any more.
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RE: Stock lists - follow of nofollow?
The idea of redirecting a user to a car that might not match their search does not seem like a very user friendly option, if they wanted a mustang and clicked a search listing for it but none are available and were then redirected to a camaro page the user would not be happy, and that flow is built only for the site and not the customer, IMO.
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RE: Crawlers reporting upper case letter url versions although these have been 301'd to lower case !?
Awesome, I hope it fixes your problem.
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RE: Sitemap issue
If you have a website with over 10,000 pages that is partially e-commerce then you should not be afraid to pay for a proper solution. Free is great when you are starting out but there comes a time when you need to invest money (and it will be a small amount) in the proper tools to continue your site's growth.
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RE: Can I add the Adwords conversion tracker inside a button instead of a thank you page?
Yes you can, make sure that you don't just add it into the button but you use an onclick command to call a script that will run and place the code onto the page. Be careful because if you do it this way it will send a conversion on the button click even if it does not lead to the proper conversion (such as if you placed it on a form submit button but the user had not completely filled out the form).
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RE: Is a .tv domain good for video optimization?
Rosemary,
Different domain name extension (.com, .biz, .tv) do not effect your site's ability to rank on Google. While it is hard to find the official Google response (I heard it answered during a Q&A at a conference hosted by Google) many independent studies have also proved this, if you search for them you should be able to find them.
Here is the most concise answer to your question:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/r1CxMI8JgPM
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RE: Migrate Old Archive Content?
I think you are asking a large, loaded question. I do not think there is a "yes you should" or "no you should not" answer for your complex question.
This content is upwards of nearly half a decade old, is it still relevant? Instead of a blanket yes or no, I think you should go through all of it and see what is still valuable, depending on your industry it could be half of it, or it could be none, but you should be looking at each piece individually, not the entire site as one whole. For moving it, if the content is good I think placing it on your site (as I assume you want to consolidate) and redirecting to the new location is fine, plus if you do it as you go, you will not have a massive surge in your content, or drop in the old site but a gradual shift over a period of time.
Hope this helps.
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RE: Number of E-commerce transaction is less while goal conversion count is more
How do you have your goal set up? it seems like your goal is firing twice, or you have an automatic page reload somewhere, unfortunately problems like this are hard to diagnose without being able to actually see your analytic's information. The best you can do is look at the rules defining your goals and see if they are to broad, if you are basing them off on an event that is hard coded onto your site then you should also look into your code to make sure it is not firing twice during a purchase.
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RE: Case Sensitive URLs, Duplicate Content & Link Rel Canonical
While you might see a small down tick in the beginning as Google indexes and updates, overall you should not suffer any long term negative effects from standardizing your URI structure.
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RE: Number of E-commerce transaction is less while goal conversion count is more
Without seeing you analytics I can't do much more, but with what you are saying I think you should re-look at how your thank you page is performing, see if that page is getting 2 around double as many page views as sessions, or if there are a large number of page views with less than 1 second, or if you look at your thank you page, is the previous page nearly 50% of the traffic. If your goal is set up correctly the only thing that could be causing this would be the page double loading in quick succession or having 2 copies of your GA code on the page.
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RE: Is dynamic pages helps in E commerce SEO?
If you are generating pages dynamically in your e-comm then yes you will want them to have static URLs, along with all of the proper formatting and parts just like any other page. There is nothing wrong with dynamically generating pages as long as you still follow the rules. If your generation creates multiple variations of the same page/ page with similar content then make sure to use canonical tags to point each group to one static URL. Lastly, do not worry about creating more pages, worry about creating relevant and useful pages/content based on what your customers are looking for.