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Google for privacy reasons have stopped passing the keyword for organic search.  There are some ways around this and MOZ have done a White board Friday on it: http://moz.com/blog/100-percent-keyword-not-provided-whiteboard-tuesday

If you have Google Webmaster tools you can see the clicks and impressions for keywords in that.  You can also use landing pages report in Google Analytics (with an organic search segment) to give a clue to the keywords used.

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They are called site links and I'm sorry to say you can't control if they appear. Google gives them to popular sites. See Google info on it if you need any more https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en

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Unless your domain is really strong on car keywords I would include car in the URL, assuming the URL is not that long. Although Google is moving away from exact match into symantic search it seems to be happening slowly and we have certainly seen improvements in ranking by having some exact matches.  So I think as longs as you don't have the exact same phrase in all places on the page there isn't much danger. However, the best pratice is to test and learn, make the change and see if it improves the ranking.

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We've also found putting the google+ button on the page helps to get it indexed faster.

I suspect Google have lumped it in with Iraq and/or turkey.  The next level down from country is city, so you might be able to work out the traffic from Kurdistan by summing the cities traffic.

Hope that is of some help.

Some of the social media icons can slow the page load down which is a conversion rate optimisation no no. So it is best to put at the bottom in my experience, so that it doen't hold up above the fold content loading. This is particuarly true as, unless you have uber cool content, don't expect too many interactions.  I would certainly include google+ though as you may get some SEO benefit.

Hi, An advanced segment is good but then that means you will have a sampled report unless you have GA premium. A filter will let you remove the problem going forward and you will have to use an avanced segment for historic data. There is a blog on how to do it: http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2013/09/05/filter-bots-google-analytics.

I find the Rank Tracker tool really useful for this. Put in the keywords you are interested in then tick "track history". It make take a while for things to change but you can see what has happened. You are also not restricted to the weekly ranking update so you can do it now and capture the current rank of your old site before launch.

This often happens if there is a redirect inbetween the sites and so the referrer gets lost which would account for that difference. It could also happen if you have a 404 or slow page so no GA visit is recorded but that would lead to less of a difference.

I would suggest adding active tagging to the link and as above reply, ask for a free extension. By active tracking you just need to add the following 3 query parameters with meaningful values such as: ?utm_source=DirectoryZ&utm_medium=PaidLinks&utm_campaign=FooterLinks

The traffic would then be tracked accurately and you can see it in the campaigns report.

What are peoples thoughts and ratings on SEO agencies in London. There are so many of them it is hard to understand which are the best.

If you want to copy a view there is a text link in the bottom right of 'View setting' called 'Copy View'it is next to Delete View.  If you can't see that you might not have the correct permissions or you might have to scroll.

Let me know if you find it.

You might have to wait till MOZ crawl again. Google crawls a lot faster.

I would certainly say keywords.  Maybe shortening the folder name or whatever it is that is making it too long.

If you have set it up correctly to track across subdomains a common cause of subdomain referrers is if you have pages that don't have the GA code on. When a visitors lands on one of these then navigates to a page that is tracked their referrer will be the subdomain.

Also check the tracking across subdomains is working by using the “Navigation Summary” to make sure there are visits that show “Next page” as a different subdomain.

Lastly there will always be some but as long as it is less than 5% of all referrers it is probably just the fact that web analytics tools are never perfect.

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Have you tried adding a text link to the page from your home page? You could have some SEO links at the bottom to "popular" pages you want Google to take more account of. We have seen small improvements when doing that. A few external links to that page would help event more. We've also had sucess with social sharing of pages, particulary on Google+.

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If you are willing to pay then Hitwise is useful it also gives you the sites users go to after searching that keyword.  It also gives a split of paid and organic for the keyword.

With big screen mobiles the old mimimal m. designs are less important but it is still critical to have fast page load times. If you have GA you can page load averages by browsers so you can see if mobile browsers are a lot slower. A slow site may well affect your bounce. There is a great blog post on the impact of site speed on mobile traffic at http://blog.kissmetrics.com/loading-time/

Also note that page speed (at least to first byte) affects search ranking see http://moz.com/blog/how-website-speed-actually-impacts-search-ranking so always important to optimise this.

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I've just done a quick test and it does look like it comes through as if it is direct.  One solution would be to add the source tracking to the URL before shortening it, such as Domain.co.uk/URLtoShorten/utm_source=Tweet&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=post123

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Try _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/external/confirm.html']) it might be that you have put in an invalid URL so Ga just ignores it and uses the actual URL.