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Most blog platforms offer the ability to not index various conglomeration pages (category, author etc.) I would recommend using those options so only the actual article page gets indexed.

I worked on a similar problem, we created an interstitial page for a general product and then used canonical tags to point all of the e-commerce product pages back to the interstitial page.

Ideally you would want one page where you could just select different options, but depending on your technology that may not be possible.

The first question is why are you going to have many stores doing the same thing, is each one unique in some way? 
Without more information as to why you are doing it this way it is hard to help with the best way to handle it.

No, not provided is only part of organic traffic that does not pass a keyword.  Any referral traffic you are getting will be shown in the referral section. There are a lot of reasons why what a site reports they sent and what GA sees are different, you should never expect them to line up, but with the difference that you are seeing you should check your GA installation to make sure it is done properly then ask what the other site considers a "click" as many automated functions like spiders will mimic a click, but GA does not track them as they are not people.

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.

Some CMS would do that automatically, if the company you are working with had one of those (or the decision maker is used to seeing that) they may just think that it is normal and a best practice. At the end of the day, while odd now, it should not matter from an SEO perspective (just make sure that you redirect the base url to that page).

Why would you worry about SEO on pages that targeted? The only people you want finding them are the specific companies, I would no index all of them and use the best versions of the copy to create a few general landing pages.

Can you post a screen shot showing this.

If what you are saying is true, the issue could be from spam traffic spoofing your GA account number or from an improper install on your site (caused by things like iframes or poorly coded scripts).

The function of the meta description is to provide a snippet for the search engine to display, it is not a form of masking, that site is using the meta description for its intended purpose.

http://www.wordstream.com/meta-description

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.

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.

That will all depend on what CMS you are using and how your site is built.

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.

With embedded Iframes you can use GTM to still track clicks (article from previous GTM iteration on how) for the other you will need to use cross domain tracking as Patrick said.

Sorry to bare the bad news, but without being able to set up redirects you are out of everything you had besides the actual content that you can put back up.  All of your link power is gone, you won't be able to get any historic, in general you are starting from scratch but with (hopefully) a decent amount of already tried and true content.

A missing title is your meta title, it is the words you see in the tabs on your browser.

H1 elements are in your copy, each page should have one, and it should be the main focus of the page.

Yes, you just use your normal funnel visualization and turn on your mobile only segment.

Yes, it will show you leaving your purchase funnel at whichever page you viewed last, it will also show this if you are in your conversion funnel and you go back to other pages on your site and then leave.

You are moving the wrong way, Google has said that they prefer sites to be secure and that this will be a factor more and more.  As per your question, yes if you create 301 redirects your SEO losses will be minimal (and don't forget to update your GWMT).

All you will need to do to fix any problems from a search perspective is create a canonical tag that points at your preferred home page and place it into the meta on your home page so it will be shown across all variations by the CMS.

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.

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.

Also, your Google traffic and your Adwords will never line up perfectly due to the difference of how each is tracked.

Google has gone into the differences here:  https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034383?hl=en

Did you link your GA and Adwords accounts or are you just tagging?  Organic (not provided) is how GA shows all search traffic from users who connect to Google securely (signed into a Google account) so this could be branded traffic but there is no way of knowing in GA.

Just because you rate well on Bing and not Google does not mean you are being penalized.  Bing uses a less sophisticated algorithm compared to Google so different tactics (older ones) can rank you higher on Bing.  Just keep doing the right thing with content creation and adding value to your site that people who use the word "sensaphone" in a search will find useful.

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.

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.

Can you put up an image of what Moz is showing (full screen, not just the graph) along with a link to your FB page, there are a couple of things that could be happening but without more information it is hard to say.

Are you referring to page likes or content likes?

If it was only a few days and just a few visits it was most likely a cache error where people who visited the site still had the with GA cached, look at the numbers and see if they are very low and all returning visits.  If it was a small burst of new and return visitors then something may have happened with your hosting company where they had to use a mirror back up and it took them a few days to update to the most recently saved version.  While Tag Assist is great, if you are not seeing any traffic in GA currently then you don't need to check anything now.

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.

If you switched from http: to https: you need to change your GWMT. Your GA account is linked to your old GWMT for non-secure, you will need to set up a new GWMT account for secure (https:) and then link that with your GA account.

You shouldn't need to look specifically for analysts with experience with publishers. In general any good analyst can comprehend the needs and uses of any digital activity from web to app as very few industries are so different that their web data acts different or needs specialists.

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?

You should be using GTM to place the other scripts onto the page.  GTM should be placed first onto the before any content or other actions.

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.

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.

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.

Look at your press releases how you look at content, if your press release is worth while and either ads value or answers a question then it can be useful as it will be picked up by relevant sites and used properly.  If you are just putting out press releases across sites which are spammy, then as Ryan said, they will not be helpful, or even have a negative effect.

While it is odd that the code has the content multiple times for the responsive, Google is very good at "seeing" what is being displayed (which is why all of the old keyword stuffing tactics don't work) so from that standpoint you should be fine.

It is best practice to use nofollow tags and your robots.txt to keep search engines out of not only e-commerce pages, but also any areas that require a log in (such as a customer profile page or shopping history).  You want to do this so that they do not accidentally index pages that will redirect users who aren't logged in or create a weird/negative experience for them.

Have you tried treating your sub-domains like a cross domain and passing the cookie to it:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cross-domain

This should fix your problem, but you will need to make sure that your URIs are unique across both your main and sub domain.

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

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.

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.

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.

Just because you are ranking does not mean it is due to the links you bought, there are many factors that go into why your site will rank, not just links.  If those links are spammy you will want to have them removed, either by contacting the sites (first thing) or if that does not work using Google's disavow tool.

You should keep up your content development and gaining links by providing quality moving forward.  If you focus on having content worth linking to, you will find that links come naturally and people are more prone to come to your site as they see the value of the content you are providing.

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.

The question is not dynamic v. static, it should be what is most readable for your visitors.  If you can simplify your urls for visitors then you should as it makes the experience better, which in turn is what Google wants websites to do.