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Ideally, absolutely. But I'm not sure I can get buy-in for moving the whole blog right now, which is why I'm considering moving just a couple of pages, if it would be worthwhile.

We have two subdomains on our site: blogs and *www. Our most important and competitive pages are on the www subdomain. I have some pages on the blogs subdomain that have valuable backlinks. Would it be helpful to our SEO efforts for the www subdomain to move and redirect those pages on the blogs subdomain to the www subdomain?

I'm not sure whether I'm using Rank Tracker or Campaigns. How can I tell which one I'm using?

I have found some links to my site that go through a single 301 redirect to get to my site.

Should I contact these websites to ask them to update the link, or is that not worth the time?

Yes, that's the only vaguely plausible explanation we've come up with too, though it's not very satisfying and it's impossible to prove.

Thanks for the suggestion, Moosa!

If you use Google to search georgefox.edu for "doctor of business administration", the first search result is http://www.georgefox.edu/business/dba/ - I'll refer to this page as the DBA homepage from here on. The second page is http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/sfs/grad/tuition/business/dba/ - I'll refer to this page as the DBA program costs page from here on.

Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=doctor+of+business+administration+site%3Ageorgefox.edu

This appears to hold true no matter what your geographic location is set to on Google.

George Fox University is located in Newberg, Oregon. If you search for "doctor of business administration" with your geographic location set to a location beyond a certain distance away from Newberg, Oregon, the first georgefox.edu result is the DBA homepage.

Set your location on Google to Redmond, Oregon
Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=doctor+of+business+administration

But, if you set your location a little closer to home, the DBA homepage disappears from the top 50 search results on Google.

Set your location on Google to Newberg, Oregon
Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=doctor+of+business+administration

Now the first georgefox.edu page to appear in the search results is the DBA program costs page.

Here are the locations I have tested so far:

First georgefox.edu search result is the DBA homepage

• Redmond, OR
• Eugene, OR
• Boise, ID
• New York, NY
• Seattle, WA

First georgefox.edu search result is the DBA program costs page

• Newberg, OR
• Portland, OR
• Salem, OR
• Gresham, OR
• Corvallis, OR

It appears that if your location is set to within a certain distance of Newberg, OR, the DBA homepage is being pushed out of the search results for some reason.

Can anyone verify these results? Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

I want to see in Google Analytics whether or not people are viewing my website on a TV, such as with a smart TV or other device connected to their TV.

These are the only ways to do this that I have found so far:

Operating system: Google TV, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox

Browser: Nintendo Browser, Playstation 3

Are there other data points that I can reliably use to segment these users?

Thanks for the regex insight, Mark.

I haven't been able to find a common denominator yet, but I'll keep looking.

Since June 13, 2013, the number of organic search queries containing a plus sign (+) has gone up over 1,000% compared to the previous period on my site in Google Analytics.

These plus signs appear to be taking the place of spaces in these search queries (i.e. "word1+word2+word3").

This appears to be almost (or completely) Google organic traffic, not other search engines.

Since I highly doubt searcher behavior would change so suddenly, I'm trying to figure out why Google is replacing spaces with plus signs.

Is anyone else seeing this? Any ideas?

I'm not sure whether I'm using Rank Tracker or Campaigns. How can I tell which one I'm using?