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Hi guys

There are two main issues we have with Google Analytics, and I'd really appreciate if anyone has the time to give an answer to that.

1. We completely miss organic traffic data before 7/22/2013 although our account is active since 2005. Any thoughts on that? Is it the not provided move that swiped out all data or something else?

2. Even for the data we do have there is lots of inaccuracies, and we are thinking on switching or at least adding a new analytics software, any recommendations? (FYI, it turns out we do not keep access logs on the server for more than 2 months, and we might fix that for future references, but now we are looking for external solution).

Any help will be much appreciated

Thanks

Lily

Thanks, guys!

The tool Shaharyar suggested was exactly what I need.

Cheers.

Hi

Thanks for adding up. My question is more about a tool which will list all pages which employ the noindex, not to check them one by one individually.

Thanks

Hi guys

I am checking my website for possible technical issues and was wondering if there is a tool or other way to see which of my pages employ the head noindex tag if any. Do you happen to know?

Thanks

Lily

Doug,

That was splendid add up! Thank you very much for the time and effort you've put to help us out. I will do all the things you suggested.

Thanks

Lily

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your tips. We did that yesterday, now we are waiting for Google to update its index. We are also paying closer attention to our competitors now, checking what kind of content they develop and publish, and I am now researching their link profile.

You guys are great help!

Thanks so much

Lily

Ron,

Our target is not local and we do not consider local SEO for now, although I am very much interested in local search.

Thanks for adding up!

Hey Karl

Thanks so much for your tips! I will definitely prepare link analysis and emphasize on our Google+ presence.

Anyone else would like to add up?

Hi all

We are server and website monitoring company for over 13 years and I dare to say our product evolved and mastered over the years. Our marketing not so much. Most of our most convertible traffic came from the keyword "ping test" with our ping test tool page, and for the first 10 years we have been positioned 1-3 in Google.com so it was all good. The last two years we have been steady on positioned 8-9, and since 7-30-13 we are on the second page.

We have launched a blog in 2009 at http://www.websitepulse.com/blog, and post 2-3 times a week, and are working on new website now, and my question is what is your advice in our situation?

Aside from providing fresh content and launching a new website is there anything specific we could do at this stage to improve our position for "ping test"?

Thanks

Lily

We have implemented meta tag for AJAX crawling. We did that on 4 pages and they were indexed through Twitter the same day, and now are out of the index again.

What we currently struggle with is finding a tool or way to check what Googlebot actually sees when crawling the site and we have the metatag set.

Can you help?

Hi there

We have already discussed this internally. Our issue is that we prefer not to go with rewriting the URLs yet again, this time with the #! and looking for alternatives which still work with Google.

Any thoughts?

Hi guys

We have started to rewrite our website http://www.edamam.com on AJAX, and the idea is to have all the website on AJAX in the next few months. Although it would probably be difficult to index even with the Google Crawling protocol, and some other issues might appear, the engineers insist that from technology point of view this is the best way to go.

We have already rewritten the internal search result pages, e.g. http://www.edamam.com/recipes/pasta and last week we set the Google Crawling protocol for AJAX to some of the individual recipe pages to test it.

I'd like to ask for you opinion on whether the rich snippets we have in the search results will be affected by this change? Are there specific actions we need to take to preserve them? What other hot tips you have for dealing with AJAX on any level of the website?

Thanks in advance

Lily

That's  a great explanation, Julian! Thanks for adding up.

Yes, the main idea is to redirect them at some point, that's why I want to be 100% sure they won't harm the rankings.

Lily

I was looking more for how to spot shady link profile. A tool for that. Anyway, I guess there isn't such tool. Thanks, guys!

Yes, they are for email spam blacklist.

That was a great idea for checking on traffic behavior compared to the algorithm updates! Thanks, David.

However I am asking if I do not have access to Analytics and GWT. If the domain is expiring and I consider buying it. Any ideas for that scenario?

Lily

If we think to buy expired or otherwise dropped domains, what tools or techniques you would recommend to check if there has bad SEO history?

We could of course, check with Google itself if the site is indexed and ranks, but I am asking if there is a particular tool out there that would provide more information if a website had been shady.

Thanks so much, guys!

Lily

Thanks, Kane, will do that!

Hi guys

We all know domain age is a big win in domain authority, although I am thinking - does it make sense to buy a domain to be used later on for one of our future product lines? We can publish some content on it, link it from a few sites, however use it heavily after a year?

All help will be much appreciated!

Lily