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Google is now involved via their forum. Here's the thread and other complaints, should anyone care to add anything or follow the issue.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en-US#!msg/analytics/MuuHK4z-MDQ/fRLErjRCvKAJ

Doug,

I appreciate the response and yes I've checked into the up-time, server logs, etc. I can't see any irregularities with the pages being served and we had 98.6% up-time over the past 7 days. Plus we're a start-up company with our faces in here every day and the moment anything on the site doesn't work, one of the team members invariably spots it. I wish that were the answer, as I'd have something concrete to go off of.

Is anyone else experiencing an issue where it seems GA failed to track many of their visitors?

This is why I think it's something on GA's end and not mine (and not natural):

1. No changes were made, site wasn't down, tracking code is correct and is "receiving data"

2. Referral, Direct and Organic traffic all dropped at about the same decline over the same period

*3. Pinterest Analytics shows me being sent over 10 times more traffic every day than GA shows me actually receiving. In the screenshot, Pinterest shows 584 uniques while GA shows 43 for Sunday.

I figure if something was broken, I wouldn't be showing ANY traffic and if it was natural, it wouldn't have happened on the same decline across all traffic mediums and Pinterest Analytics wouldn't be so far off.

I saw a few people mentioning similar things on Google's forums and wanted to ask you guys if anyone noticed any issues?

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Certainly no issues for Bing, they're actually hitting us more than Google.

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Mike,

I think that actually did give me some pretty good insight which I hadn't thought of when I was initially considering methods to answer this question.

After digging into the index with some filters, what I'm seeing is that Bing is clearly lagging far behind Google regarding the speed in which they're picking up on changes. I'm looking at piles of things that were changed and re-structured weeks (or even a couple months) ago and it hasn't picked them up at all.  I don't think it's a problem on my end, because Google clearly has no problem crawling me. I guess I'll need to double-check the server logs and see what Bingbot's habits are.

I've always assumed they would be equal in how long t takes to update their indexes, etc and that they'd simply have slightly different algorithms, but looks like Goog/Bingie may differ much more in operation than I thought.

I should have mentioned, I setup Bing Webmaster Tools originally and have kept up-to-date sitemaps in it for the past 3 or 4 months.

I've always noticed Bing to kind of lag behind Google, but I'm really surprised to only see ~500 pages indexed. I was once hired to do the SEO for an auto dealer who had dirty SEO and keyword stuffing all over his poorly structured site and I remember Bing being much more responsive to their site than they are to ours, even though they didn't even have BWMT setup prior to my involvement. Weird.

Dear MozSquad,

Can anyone check our site and let me know if there's anything super apparent that would cause Bing to treat us like a bum on the street? I recently made some structural changes which really helped with Google, but Bing didn't even budge. It's a lot harder to keep up with all the SEO initiatives I have in mind with it being a small start-up where I'm responsible for planning the entire Internet Marketing campaign, giving constant input on UX and site design, etc on top of 900 other things, so I figured it'd be a good time to use The Moz to help a brother out. Ideas?

Domain: homeandgardendesignideas.com (yeah, I know it's a little long =P)

Takeshi,

I appreciate your response! Having someone validate my thinking definitely helps cure my indecisiveness. I'll implement this structure and see how it performs.

Thanks again and take care,

-Zach

I've read all the URL structure posts out there, but I'm really undecided and would love a second opinion.

Currently, this is how the developer has our professionals directory working:

1. You search by inputting your Zip Code and selecting a category (such as Pool Companies) and we return all professionals within a X-mile radius of that ZIP.

This is how the URL's are structured...

1. Main Page:

/our-professionals

2. The URL looks like this after a search for "Deck Builders" in ZIP 19033:

/our-professionals?zipcode=19033&HidSuppliers=&HiddenSpaces=&HidServices=&HidServices_all=[16]%2C&HidMetroareas=&srchbox=

3. When I click one of the businesses, URL looks like this:

viewprofile.php?id=409

I know how to go about doing this, but I'm undecided on the best structure for the URL's.

Maybe for results pages do this:

find-professionals/deck-builders/philadelphia-pa-19033

And for individual pro's profiles do this:

/deck-builders/philadelphia-pa-19033/Billys-Deck-Service

Any input on how to best structure this so that we can have a good chance of showing in SERPs for "Deck Builders near New Jersey" and the such, would be much appreciated.

I've recently gone through setting up a lot of affiliate integrations. I personally favor Commission Junction and Amazon for products.

Commission Junction and Amazon both have very intuitive API's, so you can automatically pull over products to stock up your site with inventory.

I don't believe Linkshare had a nice API, which is why I chose not to use them. But they are a reputable company and I've known others who had good relationships with them.