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Hi,

The difference between results from Google UK and Pages from UK is this: Google UK - The Web will display all the sites that rank in the UK no matter where the site originates from. For example - If I start a website and host it in South Africa but I receive a whole bunch of links from the UK for a term, it will be possible that my site will rank in "Google UK - The Web" for that term.

However, "Pages from UK" will only display sites that originate from the UK. So my site from South Africa wouldn't appear on these search results no matter what I do (unless I try hosing the site in the UK and I don't have country specific URL such as ".co.za".

1. I'm not 100% sure but I do believe that SEOMoz will track results from "The Web" and not "Pages from the UK".

2. I don't know of any statistics about this but my guess would be that there aren't many people choosing "Pages from the UK" compared to "The Web". (Please try confirm this though)

I hope this helps!

Shaun

Hi,

You can identify the keywords that people are using to land on those pages by digging into your analytics. I'll explain the process assuming that you are using Google Analytics:

Once you are on the correct profile in analytics click on the "content" tab, then click on "site content". You will now be able to click on "all pages" on the "site content" dropdown. In the filter box type the page url and press enter on your keyboard. Click on the correct URL in this filtered list. Just above the list you will find a tab called "Secondary dimention", select this and then select "Traffic Sources" and then "Keywords". This should give you a list of all the keywords that have been used to find those pages.

As for the links, instead of selecting "keywords" under traffic sources, you can select source and it'll give you the domains that the visitors are being referred from.

Tip: When looking for links you can use advanced segments to only include referral traffic

Please let me know if this works or if you have more questions.

Hi,

If Google Analytics says that the visits are direct then these visits did not result from a link on a different website. A direct visit is from a person either typing in the URL directly into the browser, or clicking on a PDF (or word doc) link.

You might have some promotional material, a white paper or someone is just typing in the URL. Use your advanced segments to double check and make sure that the visitors are not landing on your site from referral links or organic search results.

If you really, really want to make sure that these pages are not ranking you can link your Google Analytics to your webmaster tools then check to see if there are any impressions for those pages. If there are no impressions then those pages have definitly been de-indexed.

For more info on how to link GA to GWMT visit http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1120006

If you get stuck just give me a shout! (You can get hold of me on Twitter - @shaungambit )

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