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Thank you for your response. Yes our URL stays the same, so it is dynamically served content.  The problem is the content that is displayed on mobile is purely a listing of our product catalog.  The on-page seo content that would display on Desktop is removed on mobile.  Since MFI wants to index our mobile version, is it better to try and update our mobile content to match desktop content, or to remove the mobile content altogether and have the Desktop version display on phones until our new site is launched?

I don't see any difference in mobile bounce rates

Gosh some really great input here. Would the server ever write a redirect - I suppose if the htaccess told it to do so ...? I have a few pages on my site that were first changed to include the / then changed back to without the / then changed back again. This actually caused some loss of page authority. What can I do to at least stop this madness and unnecessary redirect writes on my server.

"they'll often let a site with a stronger link profile win when there are two sites with the same piece of content" I agree with Kristina that the stronger site is usually the one that Google ranks better. Your question is one of copyright infringement.  A few days ago I gave a detailed response to a similar question here.  My response is "what we do"... the process might work for you or you might want to modify or develop your own method.. https://moz.com/community/q/competitor-using-our-product-descriptions

Thanks for the insight!

Thank you,

The majority of the out of state mobile traffic has the Network Domain listed as (not set), but most of the data is shown as coming from large cities within the out of state locations. Google said: We also take different factors into account in AdWords (e.g. mobiles can use various signals, such as GPS, etc.), while Analytics strictly uses IP, which can be very different from actual location. Even so, I'm with you; 48% is bananas and there is no way it can be that far off...at least, I hope not. We did check order and phone call reporting data and we only have a few customers coming in from outside of our market; nowhere near the volume Google Analytics suggests we should be seeing.

Hi Brit, Interesting question! So I'd frame my answer in two parts: It would be an idea to deploy Google Analytics code to both domains to give a better idea of what people are actually doing on your site, rather than seeing lots of bounces. If the login portal isn't being tracked then there is the potential that those are actual bounces and not log ins. Tom Capper wrote a post about setting up multiple domain tracking here. If what you are seeing _are _logins then that shouldn't be affecting search traffic volume. Google monitors for users going to your site, then immediately going back to search results and clicking on something else, as a sign that they weren't satisfied with your site as a result. Google can't monitor what users do on non-Google sites and even if they did the fact that some users are going straight to somewhere else isn't necessarily a sign that your site isn't giving them what they want (in this case you're potentially giving them exactly what they want). On the other hand, if what you are seeing as bounces are actually users leaving your site and going back to search results then that could impact search traffic for the reasons above. So rather than considering domain moves, a good first step would probably be tying up those Analytics properties so you're tracking movement the same way your users are experiencing it, that way you can tell if you actually have a problem. I hope that helps, do come back if you'd like more information

I appreciate the input!

Yes, the best article you can read at internet is: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1136920 It will help you a lot!=)

To your first question, have you looked at adding utm_ parameters to your ad URLs? You might be familiar with utm_ parameters from AdWords. They can work in exactly the same way for Facebook ads (but of course note that auto-tagging doesn't work for Facebook, so there's a little more work involved). For example, if I was advertising the Moz.com home page in my Facebook ad, I'd change the ad URL from https://www.moz.com to: https://www.moz.com?utm_source=facebook&**utm_medium=cpc**&utm_campaign=summer_sale&utm_content=ad_variant_1 You can use Google's URL builder to get an idea of this, but if you need to add lots of these across a large Facebook campaign, you'll be better off with Facebook's Power Editor. As long as you set the utm_medium to 'cpc', as I have above, Google Analytics can start to record these as paid traffic, rather than "Other".

Hello Amanda, Speaking to issue #2, it sounds like a cross domain tracking issue. These resources should help you resolve the issue: Self-Referrals - https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6350128?hl=en How to Fix Self Referrals in Google Analytics - https://threeventures.com/how-to-fix-self-referrals-in-google-analytics/ Hope these help! Best, Joe

Hi James, thanks for the answer.  Sorry for the misunderstanding. I run a retail e-commerce with my own manufactured products. I also have a wholesaler program so small retailers can sell my product line along with other items on their retail e-commerce website. Those retailers use same photos and descriptions from my retail website. It`s not duplicate content if they use the same picture and description?

Thanks Matt, I do have Search Console, sorry for not making that more clear in my question. I've experimented with if I can ask it to crawl a page I know Google knows (it allows me to) but I couldn't see any evidence of it doing anything with that index. Are you suggesting then that asking it to crawl a page already in its index does have an effect? If that is the case or if that is all I can do then perfect

Hi Shani! Do these responses help to answer your question or are you looking for more information? If you're good to go, please mark this as answered. Thanks!

Howdy. Not really. Answer box is different from snippets and knowledge graph (which is what schema is used for). There is an awesome Whiteboard Friday Episode about the answer boxes, check it out: https://moz.com/blog/how-to-appear-in-googles-answer-boxes-whiteboard-friday

Gaston,  This is a good discussion question and EGOL has given much of what I think. I think the overarching idea with Moz has always been it was high quality advice and no one was doing anything overt to make it about marketing themselves or their companies. Having been on Moz a long time I can tell you that the comments to someone purposefully trying to market themselves generally tend to quell repeat offenders.  So, the soft sell is the approach most use in Q&A if they are doing anything beyond truly helping, discussing and learning. Good question though, Robert

Hi Meier, This is possible. You can see your DA and the history on https://analytics.moz.com/links/competitive-metrics/4215297.961982?metric=domain_authority#domain_authority The number here represents my own membership so for you this would be different. An easy way to get there is go to your dashboard and click on Domain Authority. P.S It will only show the history since the date you joined Moz. Good luck! Tymen