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Hi,

I would change the Wordpress settings and setup a 301 redirect from non-www to www using htaccess (if you're using Apache, see e.g. http://enarion.net/web/htaccess/redirect-www-and-no-www/ for instructions how to do this). Updating the sitemaps file and resubmitting it to Google Webmasters, and manually fetching the www-version of the website with the Google crawler in the webmaster tools would be my next steps. Google and the other bots will use this signals to update their databases.

Best regards,
Tobias

Hey Jason,

I wrote a tool myself years ago (phpSitemapNG in 2005) but haven't used, supported or further developed it since than.

What would be your requirements for the perfect sitemaps tool?

Tobias

Hi Jason,

This sounds interesting. How do you generate the video sitemaps file - manually or by a tool?

Thanks for your feedback and input,
Tobias

Hi Jenny,

Thanks for your input. I forgot about the seminar. I even registered but wasn't online when the webinar started.

Tobias

Thanks a lot for the link.

Thanks for your feedback. Do the priority and the other optional values of the sitemaps file have any impact?

Hi,

Are you still using XML sitemaps today? If yes, does it bring any benefit to your website like faster indexing of webpages or better rankings? Are you using special features like video sitemaps or sitemap index files?

Best regards,

Tobias

Yes, this is right and should be working. I am not using Bing ads, so I cannot test it. This shouldn't affect your ads, and you'll see the result within 2-4 hours after implementing the change.

The difference between link and form is as following: on the form, the user stays on your website, interacts with the 2nd parties website in an iframe and can click on the menu on the left - this causes the referral.

I don't know how much you know about it - maybe the following can help you:

Have a look at this page: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55532 - this describes the basics regarding tracking of 3rd party websites.

More details can be found here: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingSite.html

Have you tried asking the question on the Google Analytics Google group? I haven't used this feature by now - maybe there are some ppl that could help you easily.

clear - this is because the user is leaving the page and doesn't continue on your page after tracking the link to the external domain.

Does the user continue on your page after submitting the form?

Use the custom GA tracking for campaigns to do it, creating a special campaign for paid bing traffic.

Have a look at this article: http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1288-Integrating-Yahoo-Search-and-Microsoft-Bing-with-Google-Analytics - this provides a good solution.

The article also mentions that you can use the Bings adCenter Desktop tool ( http://advertising.microsoft.com/support-center/adcenter-downloads/adcenter-desktop ) to setup the campaings.

Sure. But would you like to track these page views on your domain, or on the 2nd domain? If for the 2nd, you need another (new) tracker object initiated for the 2nd domain. If not, you could potentially use event tracking ( http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html ) - but unfortunatelly you cannot use this for funnels. If you need to track the sales on your 1st domain and with pageviews you might track virtual urls like e.g. "/__actions/sale/step1?xxx" - they can be used for the tracking of goals and funnels.

Try if you can use the sitemap file of the old website (or e.g. from Google Webmasters / Analytics) and keep as much urls in the same format as possible (e.g. setting them via a script in the db of magento).

I normally create a .htaccess file containing the necessary 301 with a script or notepad++ (using regexp). But depending on the number of urls this might not be an option.

I guess, http://www.bookingengine.com is not your domain, right? Why do you need this tracking in the javascript function SubmitReservationForm() - is this that your partner can track the sales? The _tracker - object you are using in this function looks like your own - so this is tracked on your domain. If you not need the tracking, just comment it.