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I don't know if you should be worrying much about the change in accuracy of the Google KWTool, in my opinion/experience that tool was not very accurate anyways.

I don't think your site is under a penalty, if it were, you would not see any links in the search result.

It is weird, especially since the query "bestprice.gr" and "www.bestprice.gr" (no "site:" ) bring up the root domain as the first result.

Thanks Ryan

It does sound like a silly question but bear with me a little...

I recently installed on my Joomla website a module that automatically creates rel canonical tags for pages that contain lists that can be sorted by different criteria: (price, alphabetic order, etc...)

I know that a proper canonical tag should look like this:

However, the module I'm using creates the following structure

Will this work?

I mean, will it be "understood" by the bots?

To see what the module actually does, you can visit the following link

http://www.quipeutlefaire.fr/fr/index.php?sort=price&sort_direction=desc&limit=10&limitstart=0&option=com_auctions&category=240

In the source code you will see that the canonical tag is

Which is the original "unsorted" page.

Thanks in advance for your help

I see it across all keywords, some have a % of new visitors that's pretty low (20% to 30%) and some have a slightly better figure: 50%.

Were talking about tens of visits per week for each of these keywords (there are about 20 of them in total). While this might not ruin my business, I do find it annoying :).

99% of my visitors come from France (It's a French website :)) and 100% of paid traffic comes from France too

Hi David

No, I don't use my brand name as a keyword.

Hello Cafe Press

Thanks for your reply, I agree with your comment:

"For example, someone clicks on your ad the first day and leaves your website after browsing it for awhile.  They come back the next day and perform the same search and click on the same ad (maybe because that's how they remembered you) - that would make this person a returning visitor and NOT a new visitor."

It seems to me that some of my visitors are using my ads as a "bookmark". Has this ever happened to you (or to any of the readers of this question)?

Additionally, lets say Joe visits my site today by clicking on an Adwords ad. Joe likes the site and bookmarks it on his browser. A couple of days later, Joe comes back to my site,

I know that Analytics will count Joe as a new visitor the first time and a repeat visitor on the second , but the question is What will Analytics consider as the SOURCE of the SECOND visit? "direct traffic" or the ad that brought Joe to the site the second  time around ?

Cheers

Hello

Three days ago launched an AdWords campaign (text ad) designed to bring people to my site (www.quipeutlefaire.com).

I've been tracking the visits using Google Analytics and I find  that 67% of Paid Traffic visits are new visitors (see attached image).

I find this very weird, I was expecting that people who come to my site through adwords to be completely new visitors (100% instead of 67%) . What's happening? are people using my ads as a sort of "bookmark" to come back to the site?

Thank you for your help

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I once had an SEO "expert" offer me the following deal:

For a small advance fee, she would work on optimizing my site for certain keywords, and she would ONLY be payed when those keywords were on the top 10 SERP for Google (Google.fr), there was a one year minimum engagement and i believe that she was asking for 120 Euros (about 162 dollars US) per keyword per month in the top 10.

Maybe you can work something out like this with the people who will work on your site's SEO.

Keep in mind what EGOL says: there is a lot of upfront work in an SEO project so you will probably be unable to escape the upfront fee.

Whatever you do, choose your keywords carefully, traffic does not equal conversions/sales, take this into consideration when negatiating the terms of your agreement with whoever does your SEO.

I had a similar issue with my website: there were many ways of sorting a likst of items (date, title, etc) which ended up causing duplicate content, we solved the issue a couple of days ago by restricting the "sorted" pages using the robots.txt file. HOWEVER, this morning i found this text in the Google Webmaster Tools support section:

Google no longer recommends blocking crawler access to duplicate content on your website, whether with a robots.txt file or other methods. If search engines can't crawl pages with duplicate content, they can't automatically detect that these URLs point to the same content and will therefore effectively have to treat them as separate, unique pages. A better solution is to allow search engines to crawl these URLs, but mark them as duplicates by using the rel="canonical" link element, the URL parameter handling tool, or 301 redirects. In cases where duplicate content leads to us crawling too much of your website, you can also adjust the crawl rate setting in Webmaster Tools.

source:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359

I havent seen any negative effect on my site (yet), but I would agree with SuperlativB in the sense that YOU might be better off using "canonical" tags on these links

http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/...?view=l

http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/...?view=g

http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/...?view=m

I don't know if you should be worrying much about the change in accuracy of the Google KWTool, in my opinion/experience that tool was not very accurate anyways.

I once had an SEO "expert" offer me the following deal:

For a small advance fee, she would work on optimizing my site for certain keywords, and she would ONLY be payed when those keywords were on the top 10 SERP for Google (Google.fr), there was a one year minimum engagement and i believe that she was asking for 120 Euros (about 162 dollars US) per keyword per month in the top 10.

Maybe you can work something out like this with the people who will work on your site's SEO.

Keep in mind what EGOL says: there is a lot of upfront work in an SEO project so you will probably be unable to escape the upfront fee.

Whatever you do, choose your keywords carefully, traffic does not equal conversions/sales, take this into consideration when negatiating the terms of your agreement with whoever does your SEO.