I agree with you that the answer is quite generic. Altho Google is able to know where the traffic is referred from. Via HTTP Headers you could already easily find out where a page will refer to, like I did with this case when using a 301 redirect. While Google isn't probably using this option it is possible as you see.

I especially like your reference, because a couple of months later the guy who replied invented the wheel again and is implying in this article the opposite in my opinion.

To get some more information about your question, did you sent out recently some email campaigns or started up some SEA/ PPC campaigns?

Hi Lou,

I can't make this answer any longer: Your answer could be found within this help article of Google Analytics. To make this a bit more efficient: "If your site uses redirects, the redirecting page becomes the landing page's referrer."

So according to this, this is not causing the increase of your direct traffic.

Hope this helps!

Hi,

For the technical part the best would be to read the information on the microformat hCard itself. Which could be found here. To speed up your process and implement it within your clients Web site you might also want to check out he hCard creator tool. Which outputs the microformat(s) for you in the right way.

Good luck!

Hi,

Cool question, because a similar question around the definition of one of Google Analytics metrics was discussed last weekend at the Q&A. The difference between this two metrics lies in the fact that one is related to a specific goal and one isn't:

Total Goal Conversions: "The number of goals completed by visitors.".
Total Goal Completions: "The total number of visitors who have completed all elements defined for this particular goal.".

As you can see, the second definition is clearly for the completions of 1 specific goal. The other one is for all the goals combined. I have to admit that it's a bit tricky, but with this definition next to you hopefully it will help you any further!

Happy analyzing!

Hi,

Eventually the answer to your question is No. Google doesn't have an operator to search within the source of a document/ Web site. As far as I know, those and a couple of others are the only ones available within Google. I also checked Bing and Blekko. But they both also seem not to provide an operator like you would like to have.

Hope this helps!

Vjay,

For the other two accounts you definitely don't have the administrator rights, because this would have give you access to the EDIT actions which show in the other 3 accounts. For my own account this is exactly the same, like you can see in my screenshot here. For the first 5 accounts I've got the administrative access. For 2 other account I'm only a "user" which don't give me access to the User Manager and the EDIT functions shown on the right side.

The best way to do this is to ask the account owner to give you administrative acces, because this is clearly not a bug within Google Analytics itself.

Hi Vjay,

It looks like you're looking in the wrong place ;-). You're currently looking at the overview of your accounts. But this page never had the ability to click trough to the User Manager. If you click on one of the accounts the profiles for that specific account will appear and also give you the ability to share one of your accounts. The User Manager will appear on the bottom of the page.

Hopefully this answers your question.

Hello,

Most of you heard from the launch of the new format for microdata: Schema.org and my question is about the different types of Schema they provide. Our websites provide an overview of courses, visitors can search/filter training courses and most important: read peer reviews.

Until now we formatted (the source) of those courses with the schema type "Product" because it allows us to provide search engines with metadata about reviews via the "Aggregrated Rating". Recently we updated the information about courses, to also provide start dates and locations to users, just like the schema type for: "Events".

Because we would like to provide search engines also with both types of data I would like to know your opinion. Schema.org looks like not to support the Aggregated Rating for Events and vice versa for Startdates/Locations for the Product type. And combining the two Schema types also does not looks like an option because we can't put them on the same level like it should be.

So what would you recommend to use for kind of schema type(s), are we able to use the 'Product' type next to the 'Event' type and so to combine them?

Thanks a lot!

For our company/websites we used different methods of submitting our sitemaps, but until now I prefer submitting the XML sitemaps after a couple of weeks/months (it varies with the kind of website). For us this had a couple of reasons, these were the main ones:

• Insights in your ("natural") crawl stats: By waiting a couple of weeks/months with submitting your sitemaps to Google we were able to see the "natural" crawl stats of our websites.
• Analyse the differences: This also applies to the reason I mentioned above. If you wait you are able to see the difference in your crawl stats after submitting your sitemap to Google. You are not definitely sure if this is directly correlated to you submitting your sitemap of course. But at least you could have a look.

But there are sure also reasons for directly submitting a sitemap: you are directly able to segment your urls, so you can see which segments of your website need to be optimized. And the number of pages crawled vs indexed.

I would like to know your own answer to the question. Why do you prefer submitting a XML sitemap right away?