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Isn't the tag results page only showing the links to the articles. Example: http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/2-pain

Remind me what is creating the "?highlight=WyJyZWQiLCJmbGFncyIsInJlZCBmbGFncyJd" ?

Should I add this to my robot.txt?

Disallow: /tag/

In order to prevent SEs from indexing these type of URLs:   http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/2-pain

The Joomla tag system was a selling point for this site's functionality.  So I can't remove it.

The url parameter was configured Apr 14, 2014.   I thought that the URL parameter was the solution.  How long should it take?

The other question is if I set the URL parameter to Crawl=No URLs and assume that google will not index these pages and therefore not get dinged for duplicate content, then will Moz analytics also stop warning me of duplicate content?  I don't see a URL parameter for Moz analytics.

Moz Analytics is showing Joomla 3 tag pages as Duplicate Page Content because many articles are tagged with multiple words and therefore show up on the same tag-pages.

example URL:  www.domain.com/tag/tagID-tagname

I already added "tag" as a URL parameter with Crawl=No URLs.

Is there anything else I should do?

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Jane,

The page source shows that the GA code is on every page.

Since this is happening to all 14 sites I am managing in GA, many that have had the same GA code for years, I have to assume it does not have to do with the installation.

GWT shows the same weekly cycle of impression from 1500 on Mondays to 900 on Saturdays.  There is no additional drop on March 1st.

the ability to remove the index.php is built into the stock joomla .htaccess file.

In the joomla backend, global config / site tab/ seo settings > enable "Use URL rewriting".

This is a critical issue for me.

Is there anyone here that can help me resolve this server wide decline?

Or help me track down why GA is showing the decline but AWstats is not?

I am using the latest version of sh404sef (4.4) and I am still getting a duplicate content issue.

What about using URL parameters in GWT to fix this?   If so, what settings do I use?

I see 1,035 urls monitored for "start" on my website.

Should I set the URL parameter to "Representative URL"?

What would cause all the sites on the same VPS to show a decline in visits on GA but not on the servers AWstats?

However, when looking at the visits using AWstats I do not see the sharp decline on March 1st that I see in GA.

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I am going through all google analytics for the sites that I manage and are all hosted on my VPS at siteground.

These sites also had a decline on March 1st.

• http://admarneuro.com
• http://heartland-designs.com/
• http://www.lawofficesofdanielkaminsky.com/
• http://www.ocjoomlausergroup.org/
• http://www.primocraft.com/
• http://www.modernmagic.com/
• http://azbaa.org/
• etc.... I'll stop here since it appears that all are affected.

Now, I think we are getting to the root of the problem.  It probably has to do with the host since every site shows the decline starting on March 1st.

Do you know what could make this happen on a VPS Cloud hosting account?

1. per GWT there is only 473 indexed from the sitemap.  How do I gauge if the 1000 is accurate.  When I search for site: transitionconsultants.com I see "About 7,300 results". Am I doing this wrong?

2. Is there any harm in resetting the URL params?  Seems like a lot of URLs being monitored. Did you see the screenshot?

3. Since I am the new webmaster, I am not sure what the ranking was before or what key phrases they were ranking highly for.  How do I figure this out?

The previous webmaster had possibly set up all these URL parameters.  I do not know if I should reset these as they were in place before the migration but maybe the parameters have changed and these are now dropping pages from the index.

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1. Sitemap appears to be ok

   |   | http://transitionconsultants.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&view=xml&tmpl=component&id=1 | Sitemap | Apr 10, 2014 | - | Web | 487 | 473 |

2. "No manual webspam actions found."

3. Yes, new content has been added.

4. No new link-building.

5. OSE:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/x1nlz93ghrrxmu1/Screenshot 2014-04-11 11.08.59.png

I just ran it through the Screaming Frog SEO Spider app and all 467 URLs are 200-OK.

All pages show the same decline from the same date.

And pages like this went from 400 pageviews to 0 on March 1st:  http://transitionconsultants.com/practices-for-sale/dental-practices/

This site was upgraded from Joomla 1 to Joomla 3 and launched on Feb 27th.  The SEF structure has not changed.  The extension sh404sef tracks the 404s and there are only a few dozen from mistyped urls, so I have to assume the historical ranking has not been affected.

How can I figure out why there is such a decline on March 1st from 4400 to 1500 visits?

Is it coincidence after the new launch or did something happen with google on March 1st?

http://transitionconsultants.com

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