Looks like a pretty spammy site. Sometimes a spam site can rank for a time using black hat tactics, but is eventually discovered and taken down. Rankings also can fluctuate naturally for many reasons-- SEOs usually see a "honeymoon period" for new pages, where they rank really highly when they are first published, before dropping in rankings after Google sees how the page performs in the SERPs.

It likely means the page that the link was discovered on is now redirecting to another page. For example, a few of the links in your screenshot are from Google+, which no longer exists (all pages now redirect to a shutdown notice).

Lots of people speculate that website usability impacts search rank, but this hasn't been conclusively been proven. Improving your website experience is great for conversions and something you should definitely work to improve, but if you want to improve search ranking it's still important to focus on content & links.

Interesting. Do you know if Google Analytics is installed properly? Is the code in your header? Are there any javascript errors on your page? Do you have multiple analytics scripts installed?

May be some kind of tracking issue there.

I would go with the canonicals. If there are any links going to these duplicate pages, that will prevent any "link juice evaporation" from links which Google can see but can't crawl due to robots.txt. Best to let Google just crawl the page and see the canonical so that it understands that it is a duplicate page.

Having canonicals on all your pages is good practice anyway, as it can prevent inadvertent duplicate content from things like query parameters.

Crawl budget can be of some concern if you're talking about a massive number of pages, but start by first taking a look at Google Webmaster Tools and seeing how many of your pages are being crawled vs the total number of pages on your site. As long as this ration isn't small, you should be good. You can also get more crawl budget by building up your domain authority by building links.

Not really. Google only shows referrers as (direct) when there is no referral data present, and that's an issue with the referrer, not your tracking system. Referral data can be lost for many reasons:

• The user is getting to your site by typing the URL directly into their browser
• The user is getting to your site via a bookmark or browser favorite
• The user is using iOS6, which doesn't pass referrer data properly for search traffic
• The user is clicking on a link from an e-mail client which doesn't pass referrers (common if you have mailing list)
• The site that is linking to you is using HTTPS, and you are using HTTP
• Traffic is coming via a mobile app that doesn't pass referrers
• The user is using IE and they clicked on a Javascript or Flash link
• Etc.

You may be able to get around this to a certain extent by using URL parameters (utm_source, utm_campaign), but those would only be for links that you have some control over.

That's very frustrating! I've never had a problem with HMA specifically, but that script usually works.

You may want to try searching for things like "break out of frame proxy" or "break out of frame php" to see if anyone out there has come up with a better solution.

Interesting. Google is usually smart about not indexing proxies, but here it looks like it's doing exactly that.

You can try using Javascript to break your site out of any frames when a visiting your site. This will break the user out of the frame if they come via the proxy, and may also help prevent Google from indexing the proxy frame:

What query are you searching for? The website comes up fine for me.

Make sure you have the canonical tag in the header of all your pages. It helps Google tell what is the original source of a page:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

Also, check in webmaster tools to see if your site has a manual penalty, being penalized can cause other sites to show up higher than you in the SERPs for your content.

Just add the following code to the footer.php file:

YOUR_LINK_HERE