Thank you Miriam!
Posts made by Ideas-Money-Art
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RE: How to track google business traffic as organic into google analytics?
Hi Red Nova,
I was able to detect it using Real Time in GA.
Thanks!
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How to track google business traffic as organic into google analytics?
Hi mozzers,
After noticing that all Google business(known in the past as google places) traffic gets recorded into direct traffic I would like to get this into organic traffic instead. What is the best method to do so?
I found this great post http://moz.com/blog/tracking-traffic-from-google-places-in-google-analytics by Rebecca Lehmann but was written in 2011. Are these method the only one available to track this traffic or is there a new method we could try that would track all this traffic into organic search?
Thanks for letting me know!
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RE: E Commerce and cross domain tracking on universal analytics?
Hi everyone
I guess it is a tough question. Please let me know if you need more information.
Thank you!
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E Commerce and cross domain tracking on universal analytics?
Hi Mozzers,
I am running into an issue where my client's website ( can refer to domain.com) uses a third party checkout site called rezovation that we can refer to checkout.rezovation.com: I went through this doc here https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cross-domain and https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/ecommerce (for universal analytics) and I still find it confusing so here are my questions:
- According to my understanding I need a customized GATC to link both domains checkout.rezovation.com and domain.com?
- If yes(above), do we setup one customized GATC for cross domain tracking on all pages from checkout.rezovation.com and domain.com? if it is the case can someone provide detail steps on how to set it up ( I am not a coder so the easier the guideline, the better)
- Once cross domain tracking is set up, e commerce tracking code should be only on thank you page should be looking like the image below?
- Should i add manually all the extra code for the ecommerce tracking code or I can get it done via a third party website?
Thank you guys!
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Can someone explain what is exactly a vanity url and how to make it work?
Hi guys,
Can someone explain me exactly what is a vanity URL and how to track it on google analytics?
All I know is that these URLs are for tracking offline marketing campaigns such as contest/promotions. Also, would it make sense to create an unbounce campaign to get that vanity url and track it via Google analytics?
Thank you Mozzers!
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RE: How to deal with number swaps for organic results?
Hi Jasmine
Didn't create it on my own, paid search team did it. The call tracking service is if by phone. Should i use another service or we're good.
Thanks
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RE: How to deal with number swaps for organic results?
Hi Spencer,
thanks for your answer, I did a fetch and render and here are the result
http://cl.ly/image/3r0K1m3B2w3G
I am not sure if the swap is made via an image or text. It may be text. Do you think based on the result I'm good.
FYI: We are using call tracker called **if by phone **
Thanks!
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How to deal with number swaps for organic results?
Hi mozzers,
We used to have a proxy URL for our paid search campaigns and we just transferred all of that into the main domain(that ranks organically). Since we were using phone numbers swapping for paid search, I am afraid that it will harm our organic local results as I am seeing phone number swapping.
Can the bots distinguish a swap number and a real phone number or will it impact our local SEO results( because of an inconsistent phone number)?
Thanks for letting me know!
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Can cookies harm your webiste?
Hi mozzers,
I am doing an seo audit and one of the components of crawlability in the audit template I have is: "Disable Cookies/Make Googlebot user agent", I am not quite sure why cookies could harm your SEO?
Can someone explain me what problems can arise because of cookies? Does it prevent bots to crawl your website like .js on your nav?
Thanks!
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RE: How to add specific Tumblr blogs into a disavow file?
Thanks richard!
Yes I did try to remove them first.
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How to add specific Tumblr blogs into a disavow file?
Hi guys,
I am about to send a reconsideration letter and still finalizing my disavow file. The format of the disavow is
Domain:badlink.com (stripping out to the root domain)
but what about those toxic links that are located in tumblr such as: badlink.tumblr.com? The issue is that there are good tumblr links we got so I don't want to add just tumblr.com so do you guys think I will have issues submitting badlink.tumblr.com and not tumblr.com?
Thank you!
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RE: Why xml generator is not detecting all my urls?
Thank you Guys!
I resolved the issue! I think it was a caching issue!
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Why xml generator is not detecting all my urls?
Hi Mozzers,
After adding 3 new pages to example.com, when generating the xml sitemap, Iwasn't able to locate those 3 new url. This is the first time it is happening. I have checked the meta tags of these pages and they are fine. No meta robots setup!
Any thoughts or idea why this is happening? how to fix this?
Thanks!
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RE: Linked my adwords account to GA and vice versa and still paid search is getting recorded into organic traffic??
Thanks for clarification but here is where I am confused.
Again this is under the same UA 123456XXX-X property
For instance the seattle profile shows adwords data on GA such as the keywords but somehow the LA and SF GA profiles shows only (not set).
Is this normal?
Thanks Jasmine!
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RE: Linked my adwords account to GA and vice versa and still paid search is getting recorded into organic traffic??
Yes it is
Whenever you have multiple GA profiles that tracks separate ads(SF, Seattle, LA). Do you still need to link your adwords and GA multiple times or when it is done once, it is good to go?
EX:
1 Adwords account for multiple groups of ads for
San francisco
LA
SEattle...
and 1 GA account with profile for
San Francisco
LA
Seattle
thanks!
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RE: Unnatural inbound links message from Google Webmaster Tools!
Hi Guys,
First off thank you guys for responding.
After further analysis, I got hit by the Impact links penalty( which affects links that point to your domain) . So far it's been 3 weeks and I have seen a slight drop in organic traffic( about 10%) where few particular query lost rankings.
My concern is that I was able to detect some real shady links (link network) around 200 which I never created such as: http://gasolinereinbows.tumblr.com/. Because those represents the worst links ever, I tried to find contact info of these websites and of course no information was found. So at this point I am thinking to disavow them but this article http://www.e2msolutions.com/blog/google-penalized-dont-disavow-your-links/ says I shouldn't especially for the Impact links type of penalty. So I don't know what to do? Any thoughts on how should I tackle this?
Thank you!
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RE: Can a localization web design update hurt SEO?
Thank you for your response!
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RE: Unnatural inbound links message from Google Webmaster Tools!
Thanks for your answer Marty!
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Unnatural inbound links message from Google Webmaster Tools!
Hi Everyone,
I just got this message from GWT(image below)
This is probably a penguin Penalty. What is clear is I have to find the best and most efficient way to tackle this issue. We will probably lose tons of traffic in the next couple of weeks so I would like to get the best suggestions and maybe a guideline on how to do this in the most effective way!
Thank you!
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What is the best type map for local SEO?
Hi mozzers,
Can someone tell me which type of map is best when embedding it into your service pages? or any map is good enough? Why?
Thanks guys!
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RE: How do you get this?
Hi Keri
When you click on Moz (red box in attached image) it is linked to wikipedia. I don't think it has to do with site/folder name in places of URLs.
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RE: How do you get this?
Hi Amelia,
Are you sure that particular knowledge graph feature shows up because of a breadcrumb rich snippet?
Thanks
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RE: How do you get this?
Hi Gianluca,
So one of my clients has a wikipedia page and I am wondering where in GWT do you ask for this knowledge graph feature?
Thanks
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How do you get this?
Hi Mozzers!
What is the process for getting this Wikipedia Branded name appearing next to your organic results (image)?
Thanks mozzers!
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Can a localization web design update hurt SEO?
Hi mozzers,
Me and my team are having a major website refresh and update for one of our client's. The structure of the website can be divided into 2 types of pages: corporate pages(representing the core services of the company which rank nationally) and microsite pages(representing each and every 30+ franchise locations ranking locally).
Right now when you visit the Seattle microsite page you have localization feel but the main nav(of corporate site) remains at the top on top of the subnav(orange under map) which is customized for the location where you are in. My colleague who is the main person in charge of this website update would like to create a better localization experience for users in specific cities by having one main navigation instead of 2 displaying exactly the same pages displayed on the actual subnav (actual microsite) (images are below of actual and potential look of the website). FYI: URLs will remain the same.
I really like this idea of a more personalized experience but I am afraid that the local seo strategy we have done so far may be jeopardized because of this new design but i am not sure. Am I right? Are we going to lose national and/or local rankings? Will this fresh design hurt the SEO we have been doing for the past few years?
It would be great to provide me "best practice" tips to follow for this case as far as what are the steps I should be paying attention...
Thank you guys!
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RE: Linked my adwords account to GA and vice versa and still paid search is getting recorded into organic traffic??
Thank you Paul
But it has been auto tagged properly since few months ago. That is why I am really confused since it is still showing under organic.
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Linked my adwords account to GA and vice versa and still paid search is getting recorded into organic traffic??
Hi Mozzers,
I have linked properly my adwords account to GA and vice versa and somehow I can see 3/4 of this paid traffic recorded to organic search. The most confusing part is that I can see 1/4 of the paid traffic under the "paid" metric.
At this point I don't know really what should I do?
Thank you guys in advance!
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RE: Is this type of navigation SEO friendly?
Thank you guys for your contributions! Much appreciated!
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Is this type of navigation SEO friendly?
Hi mozzers,
I wanted to know if this type of navigation SEO friendly. Is it better than the regular drop down menu navigation?
Thanks!
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RE: Need REGEX help
Hi Kristina,
Would you rather do it a different way?
Thanks
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RE: Need REGEX help
Hi Kristina
I would love to share this infor but I can't do it here. Can I get you email or so so I can send you the detailed titles.
Thanks Kristina
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RE: Does this tactic fall into the Local SEO best practice?
Thank you Guys for all of your responses!
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Does this tactic fall into the Local SEO best practice?
Hi Mozzers,
I have a client who serves the entire San Francisco bay area but has only one physical location.
He asked me if he should get different addresses by renting out offices in different cities so he could use that for a better localization of his business.
Thanks for letting me know!
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RE: Need REGEX help
Hi Kristina,
the difference between them is that one is about spring cleaning and the other I would like to capture traffic is in Spring texas.
Regarding the page title, they are pretty similar but not identical. Do you think I could use that option? If yes can I include 11 page titles (since I am trying to track all the Spring Texas location pages) ? If yes how would I add this type of filter?
Thanks!
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RE: Need REGEX help
Hey Kristina,
Do you need more information or it enough?
Thanks!
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RE: Need REGEX help
Sure Kristina,
Don't want to include:
example.com/....-colorado-springs
example.com/..../spring-cleaning-....
include:
....
Thanks Kristina!
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RE: Need REGEX help
Hi mozzers,
the question is little tricky but if someone knows any useful resources, it would be great share those instead.
Thanks guys!
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RE: Video Sitemap Error
Thanks Federico!
Do you think that this error would prevent the rich snippet from showing up in the SERP? Because before I implement code into the page I tested the snippet on http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets an no errors was showing up!
Other question: since this video is a youtube video do I have to add a video sitemap line in the robots.txt or not?
Thanks!
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Video Sitemap Error
Hi
I am using a Video snippet and this error was generated about the duration tag. Can someone tell me how to fix it? and will this error prevent snippet to work on the sear results?
Thanks Mozzers!
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Need REGEX help
Hi Mozzers,
I have multiple filters in one of the GA accounts I manage. I just created new pages that have URLs containing the keyword "spring" (location in texas) and wanted to filter out spring in the GA Spring profile(screenshot) .
My issue is it will filter all the URLs containing the kw spring and the website has multiple blog post containing the same kw (spring).
So what I need is a Regex formula so I can make sure I track only the Spring tx traffic and not the blog posts.
Thanks for letting me know how can I do that!
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RE: CSS Issue or not?
Hey John,
So how can I judge if there is a CSS problem? Should I go through all the CSS code? Can you give me an example. A screenshot would help.
Thanks!
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RE: Does moz Ranking report canadian rankings?
Thank You Tim!
Do you know if it tracks kws for mobile version as well. I am asking because I have a client who has a desktop version of website and m.example.com version and somehow the mobile one doesn't show any kw rankings?
Thanks
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RE: CSS Issue or not?
Hey John,
I realized I never answered you sorry about that! Thanks for the help!
One quick question though: "If you want to see how a page looks to search bots, view the source of the page, don't disable the CSS."
View page of the source and identify what exactly?
Thanks John!
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RE: Why Pre roll Youtube video ads are being recorded into Organic Traffic?
Thank you for do more investigation Phil!
This is really frustrating getting skewed Organic data because of Google's lack of involvement into this!! Please feel free to share some hacks if possible!
Thanks Again
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What are partial urls and why this is causing a sitemap error?
Hi mozzers,
I have a client that recorded 7 errors when generating Xml sitemap. One of the errors appear to be coming from partial urls and apparently I would need to exclude them from sitemap. What are they exactly and why would they cause an error in the sitemap.
Thanks!