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I must be overcomplicating this. I have a website with a blog structure that includes year subfolders, so:  website.com/2019/blog-title, website.com/2018/blog-title, website.com/2017/blog-title, etc. I want to create a segment that I can apply in Site Content > All Pages to get quick stats for all blogs, regardless of year. (Pageviews, time on site, etc.) Unfortunately, Content Drilldown doesn't work well here as it is grouping by each year. I have tried setting up a segment using regex, but am getting a mixture of all pages, not just blog pages.  I have set up the segment the following way:

Advanced > Conditions > Page, Matches Regex, /2019/(.*?)/

Advanced > Conditions > Page, Matches Regex, /2018/(.*?)/

Advanced > Conditions > Page, Matches Regex, /2017/(.*?)/

Am I going about this all wrong? Is my regex wrong? Any advice is appreciated!

Side note: glaringly obvious that now is the time to clean up my URLs. But I'd still love to see the data in its current URL state.

Thank you!

From a UX perspective, having an interstitial like that can turn off many visitors, especially if it's coming off a search result. They're expecting to get to an article about whatever they just searched, and instead they see a thought of the day plus an ad. While it generates revenue for the domain, it can have a longer term effect of diminishing return or regular visitors.

There was a great article here a couple years ago, identifying customer satisfaction as a primary SEO factor. http://moz.com/blog/seo-satisfaction

We've had the same issue. Many phone calls and hours later Google had to manually do it...it seems to be a glitch that they don't care to fix.

I think industry partner links are fair game. These are also probably your heavy hitters meaning removing them will probably be the most hurtful.

Its not a bad idea, but it might not be the best idea. By doing so you're limiting your product description to a short one, and if that's the only thing describing the product it might not be enough to attract the attention from the search engines. As for the technical answer, the meta description and short description won't count against each other.

If you want a page or url not crawled then you should use the robots.txt file and robots meta tags. Then, in WMT, make sure those same pages are actually not being crawled

Hope that answers your question

Check this guy out, he's one of the leading experts

http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/

http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/definitive-local-search-citations/

Proximity will get your business more targeted in a local sense, and that's still a hard case to make because the site you're getting the link from has to be set up in a way where they've geo tagrgeted as well. Don't forget to get the business listed on the well known places https://moz.com/local/search.

Hope that helps

Take a peek at this

http://moz.com/blog/the-international-seo-checklist

It probably has to do with their language and geo tags. I'm not too familiar with international SEO but that would be my take on it.

Local results usually get trumped by sites like Yelp, Lawyers.com and even Facebook. There are so many factors at play that it's hard to say what exactly would be affecting it. It does seem like you've done your work with on site SEO. If your competitors have better back link profiles that's still the number one factor in Google's rankings.

Hope that helps

Meta descriptions are NOT a must, however they have been correlated with higher CTR. Here's a way to check if you should add meta descriptions.

Do the search site:(insert your site).com or site:www.(insert your site).com, if the metas that are being shown make your happy then Google is delivering a good description.

Many times what Google comes up with is crap. Also meta descriptions are great for you marketing message.

It has to do with cookies, and serving dynamic content. Returning visitors get identified as returning and then a certain message is displayed. Hubspot has a produc that deals with this, there are a few others which don't come to mind right away.

If you're very technical you can use PHP to ID a returning visitor and then spit out targeted messaging.

Have you tried some local SEO stuff? Moz has a crap load of info on that. http://moz.com/blog/top-20-local-search-ranking-factors-an-illustrated-guide

Our personal experience with overlays/popups have been that they create massive bounce rates and people run because these methods have been associated in the minds of consumers as spam.

Think about the customer, will a pop up enhance their experience with the site? If not why do it? Also from a organic perspective having "handcrafted" in your text might be a benefit?!

Each back link checker has it's own crawlers and therefore they will show different results. Majestic Seo shows 0 links for the site, another example of everyone having their own link index database.

Google webmaster tools usually only shows a sample of actual links.

This might seem like a super simplified answer but just google the terms you're concerned about and that should answer your question as to how google is treating certain KWs. Use an incognito window to do so or read up more technical ways http://moz.com/blog/face-off-4-ways-to-de-personalize-google. De personalizing will allow you to see a better picture of how the terms get treated.

Once you have your google local pages setup try getting reviews, it's a long run type approach that may allow you to outshine others locally.

We've had the same issue. Many phone calls and hours later Google had to manually do it...it seems to be a glitch that they don't care to fix.

You can use OSE (opensiteexplorer) or Majestic SEO to see any recent sites that have linked to your site.