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Hi Gregory,

Did you get any further with your query above? I am considering implementing the same thing...

Thanks,

Dan

Thanks Both,

Pretty much confirms our thoughts here and yes Eddie - it appears to be a smash and grab job.

Dan

Hi Guys,

Have just taken on a new client (.co.uk domain) and during our research have identified they also have a .com domain which is a replica of the existing site but all links lead to the .co.uk domain. As a result of this, the .com replica is pushing 5,000,000+ links to the .co.uk site.

After speaking to the client, it appears they were approached by a company who said that they could get the .com site ranking for local search queries and then push all that traffic to .co.uk. From analytics we can see that very little referrer traffic is coming from the .com.

It sounds remarkably dodgy to us - surely the duplicate site is an issue anyway for obvious reasons, these links could also be deemed as being created for SEO gain?

Does anyone have any experience of this as a tactic?

Thanks,

Dan

Thanks Rob,

This is more or less the conclusion we arrived at.

The locations are all in the South of the UK apart from one but are all in separate towns/areas and each location is optimised as such (We're not targeting multiple locations on one page).

Hopefully we may see an up-turn over the next weeks if the A/B testing theory is valid.

I'll post again if I notice anything further.

Dan

Hi Robert thanks for your reply,

It's only one site that seems to have been affected and I've checked all the usual signs, no site changes have been made of any note.

Rankings had actually notably improved over the last few months and now all of a sudden seen some dramatic changes in the last few days.

Main changes have occurred on location pages - Google appears to have opted to use the home page now to rank for the target terms which is strange. My first thought was that Google had dropped the organic listing for the pages as the same URL appeared in local results, but there seems to be no real pattern of this occurring and is inconsistent with competitor rankings.

Dan

Hi,

Has anyone seen any major fluctuations in local and organic rankings over the last week?

I'm recording some significant changes, cannot fathom why at the moment other than Pigeon is still maybe rolling out...

Dan

Hi Monica,

It's a custom report in GA.

Dan

Hi Guys,

Been having a problem recently with a custom report I have set up...

I want to find out number of sessions, bounce rate, session duration etc for different dimensions on my site - store area, store name, product type etc but I cannot seem to get the data to filter through to the report I have set up when 'Session' scope is selected. If I set it to 'hit' then I do get the data but this will only record the first instance of a dimension being triggered (from what I can gather) rather than all dimensions that might be triggered during a complete session.

Has anyone experienced similar problems?

Thanks,

Dan

Thanks for your quick reply.

I was told this by the dev guy who built the site after I requested the offending content be displayed as an image (or some other way) because I was concerned about duplicate content issues across the site.

There isn't masses of it - just thought it could potentially cause a problem.

I've had this discussion many times and it occurs frequently across sites - what would you do with said content? It's about 300 words I guess...

Hi Guys,

Just after some clarification - I have recently been told that by placing content in

<aside></aside>

tags spiders will ignore the content. Is this the case? I always thought that content placed in these tags was to identify related content.

To put the query into some context, we have the same content on multiple pages on a site, which is relevant to the main body copy - but could throw up duplicate content issues...

Thanks in advance.

Hi Guys,

Just after some clarification - I have recently been told that by placing content in

<aside></aside>

tags spiders will ignore the content. Is this the case? I always thought that content placed in these tags was to identify related content.

To put the query into some context, we have the same content on multiple pages on a site, which is relevant to the main body copy - but could throw up duplicate content issues...

Thanks in advance.