Yeah they all work for me too.

So this remains one of the weirder topics on here but for different reasons than I first suspected. ..I'm really not sure what to tell you. Sorry.

that's weird. what are the domains let's see if I can access them?

Wait are you saying this is just for your clients' sites? You can access other sites just fine? That's how you posted this question?

Sorry i'm confused.

Your internet and/or router is down..? Yeah I'd power-cycle the router and modem and try again. Or contact your cable company.

No offense but this is one of the weirdest Q&A posts I've seen here. I'm having a weird morning though so it totally fits.

If the server isn't actually returning a 404 response then those links are still actively pointing at your domain. Just because you point them at a custom 404 page doesn't mean it returns a 404. In fact, in your case it's clearly returning a 301 which passes link juice.

A 302 does not pass link juice and might be the better option, but I'm not sure that even will be your best bet. Your best bet is to delete the pages in their entirety and re-create them with different URLs.

Well, your best bet is to remove the poison links but trust me I know how impossible that can be.

Anyway.. Hope this helps.

Nevermind it totally worked. I just tested it out on a dummy page and it tracked the event.

Thank you all incredibly much for all the help. This is fantastic and is going to make me look like a rock-star.

How bout shidiot? ...this thread is degenerating I apologize.

Mark,

Thank you for this. May I ask if I'm doing this correctly? I have a quick jquery tag in the header that reads:

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
// Track submission events.
  $('#quote-form').submit(function() {
        _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'R4Q', 'Form submission']);
  });
});

Where "quote-form" is the form id of course.

Is this correct? Thanks again

haha yes I couldn't agree more. "FIDIOT?!" hilarious

Thank you everybody for providing the answer I was seeking! This is exactly what I thought was the case and now I have more opinions/links to back me up.

The thing is our submission doesn't yield a unique Thank You page. Instead it wipes the form and reveals a Thank You message in the form's place. For whatever reason this is how my boss wanted it done and I disagree and want a new page to come up (even if in a new window) to ensure an event's triggered and analytics doesn't lose it.

Mark - Is there any sort of "event" that I can trigger which won't load a new page or affect anything the user sees per se? I feel like my only option here is to do as EGOL is saying. And to be honest, that's what I want to do anyway. Why would a user want to stay on the page they were just on after filling out a form? What use is that page to them after they've filled it out and are waiting for a response?

Bah! I swear 80% of my job is convincing site owners that they're thinking is backwards and having to essentially "argue" (for lack of a better word) with them about it.

Anyway, thanks fellas.

Here's the Question:

If a person clicks a PPC ad and hits the landing page, and the landing page has a form to fill out embedded in it without having to click, does that count as a bounce if the person leaves the page immediately after filling out and submitting the form or does the submission negate the bounce tally?

Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance.

301 Redirect one to the other. That's it that's all.

Well I don't know anything about this "SEO College Tutor" but it sounds fishy to me.

You can have the "key info" in the title and still have it be readable. Also, at the very least you should take me up on my suggestions for capitalization. It currently looks like it was written by a 5th grader. No offense. But you capitalize the first few words, stop doing it, and then go back to capitalizing at the end. Looks amateurish and reads horribly. At the very least fix that.

I'd encourage you to grab some impartial observers (a mom, gramma, aunt, uncle, somebody not good with computers you happen to know) and ask them to look at the SERPs you are targeting and choose a site to visit. Or maybe even ask them to run some random searches and watch how they react to SERPs and what pages they choose to click on. I think that you will find the title tag to be the difference maker (beyond placement of course). What you are doing is stuffing keywords to encourage placement in the top of the SERPs. That's what the "SEO tutor" is having you do. That is not necessarily going to work. There are plenty of ways to rank well and still have an attractive title for your end-user.

I've seen it work both ways. I've seen a page sit at number 1 for the desired keyword results and get no clicks. Why? Only answer I have was a terrible Title.

I'm glad you are going to test both methods. That's a great way to approach things.

Keep in mind with your SEO Tutor.. You need to take every factor into account with SEO. There is no perfect way of doing things. My way isn't perfect, their way isn't perfect. You need to find your own truths somewhere in between. You seem to be working towards that so you should be alright.

But boy I have to say my gut tells me that this alleged Tutor has a few things mixed up...

Well maybe a mobile version. But from the desktop I can't seem to get to it. Anyway if the site can be recreated in HTML with the same look and functionality, why does she want the Flash site? Mention the speed factor to her as well... Site takes far too long to load.

I know I've told you this before and I'm becoming the Title-Tag Police around here but you can do so much better with that. There are several things that drive me crazy from a users' perspective with your title:

1.) Keyword stuffed.. Seems like a robot wrote it; not human

2.) Capitalization. Sometimes you capitalize the first letters like a title would and sometimes you don't. This inconsistency makes your page look amateurish and drives my OCD grammar-police brain crazy!

Just trying to help... Good luck!