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Hi, Do your images appear in your sitemap? Generally, there isn't a lot of difference between what Google and Bing look at, but they may both have different scores they associate with various aspects. With this in mind, make sure that: The image is well optimised and not too large The file is named accordingly Has good descriptive ALT text (but not spammy) Outside of that, it will also help if you build external links to that page and as with any SEO campaign, if you have pages that you wish to be more prominent for the search engines, remember to do some internal linking too. I hope that helps a little. -Andy

I tried SEMRUSH and they are a great tool, but's very limited for the free version.

Yes, I have been having an issue in the Campaigns screen for months now. When I go to Acquisition > Campaigns the results display rows 1-10 by default and my total sessions is 421. However, when I change the rows to 25, the total number of sessions changes to 210. Also, each campaign line has a number and it changes as well. You can see my screen shots here: ROWS 1-10 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B06xisveKSCoamw3NktSaEpNTGc/edit?usp=drivesdk ROWS 1-12 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B06xisveKSCoUE5oMUlMLUFQUzQ/edit?usp=drivesdk Just wondering if anyone else is see this as well? You can view the help thread here: https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/d/msgid/analytics/dea4e899-7384-4b0f-a4e0-a380e9b40c6d%40googleproductforums.com

Hi It will be the same as putting on the main domain.  It will get crawled as part of the main site.  Blogs tend to site on sub domains, so start with www.blog.xxxx.com  or the shop could be www.shop.xxxx.com Bruce

I, also, would like these reports for all my clients, however I can't seem to set it up for more than one account, when we have like 30 in our Analytics. I know how to create and schedule custom reports in analytics itself - the OP's Snapshot picture is completely different than that. The Analytics Web Performance Report (formerly Snapshot) seems to be a 'Google thang'. In Analytics, click the gear icon and go to "user settings". There, you can set your communications settings. To receive this report,  tick the radio button to receive "Performance Suggestions and Updates". If you attempt to navigate to any other account within analytics, you can't access "user settings" for that account - only for your parent gmail account. So far, the only way I see to set this up is to set up each client with their own gmail account, add that to the parent analytics account, and set each client's new analytics communications settings individually within their account using the "user settings' under the gear icon. Has anyone found a better solution?

Hi Tom (great name) I work in an industry where security is paramount.  From what I have seen for a region where we made the switch to all https (after doing what you have done beforehand as well), I can tell you that it has been very well received.  It's actually a bit of a selling point for us - we're able to say that every part of our site is SSL protected and customers like that, it gives an extra layer of security for them.  And, so far at least, we've not experienced any negative connotations with the move, with people being put off or confused by the switch. I actually think we're on our way to a more secure web and more HTTPS being the norm.  SEO wise, there's even been talk of SSL sites being seen more favourably than non-SSL sites, although I'd say we're a long way off from that. I would make the change if you think it will be beneficial to your clients - which I think for the most part it will.  Make sure you take care of the necessary SEO steps like canonicals/redirects, but it sounds like you're well ahead on that front. Hope this helps Tom

The best way, that I know of, to identify the demographics is to use the Google Analytics along with Google Adwords. Spending a certain amount of money, on certain areas using geotagging, you can use all that data on Google Analytics and get a good impression of the demographics. The only thing you have to find out for yourself is what amount of data you need in that region and for that particular field that you are targeting.

Thanks Robert, appreciate your input.

Will do! Thanks.

thank you for taking the time to help David

I bet content on that topic would be good linkbait.

PageRank is a pretty outdated way of looking at a page's worth, especially because it's updated irregularly, and often fudged / inaccurate. Google realised a while ago that people used PageRank as a metric to buy and sell links, meaning that them making it very accurate was helping fund an industry they very much didn't like. That said, 2.5 years with no internal PR showing up on any URL seems slightly odd. Do the pages show decent Moz metrics, like Page Authority? Does the site sit on HTTPS URLs exclusively? At least a little while ago, that used to stop toolbar PR from showing up but it didn't mean that pages wouldn't rank. It's also possible that the site receives few or no links from elsewhere, meaning that there is not much authority to be passed through the site from the home page or any other target page. Does this seem likely to you, looking at the site's links? As others have said, there could also be internal linking problems that halt the flow of authority, but 2.5 years is a while to show no internal tbPR whatsoever.

Depending on the size of the company, it might be better to leave subdomains out of it. Subdomains are like brand new sites, so you'd be working a lot harder to get things ranking if you went that route. You don't have a ton of pages per category, so everything might be more manageable under the single domain with good URL structure. Websites that aren't AT&T need all the help they can get, and keeping things in subfolders instead of subdomains will help keep all your authority under a single domain. So, site.com/business, site.com/personal, etc.

that sounds DELIGHTFUL. haha I'd like to give that a try....or maybe test it on one of the interns

Hi, If the duplicated content urls are already in the google index then excluding them with the robots.txt will not remove them but just stop the google bot from crawling them again. You could do a bit of conditional logic on your head.phtml template file to check for the relevant url part and output a noindex,follow meta tag on the pages you don't want indexed. This is a more reliable way to make sure they are removed and not indexed in the future (be sure to test first!).

No worries on the delay.  It gave me time to research it all more I believe the issue is related to slow load times on low bandwidth connections & too much processing time on older computers.  This made it so people with faster machines and better ISPs liked my site while slower connection and older machine visitors hated it....that's my guess anyhow. I'm redoing the site in bootstrap and have greatly reduced load and processing time. I'll share the results when I have them.

The word your looking for is content personalization. It's the new thing with CMS providers, especially e-commerce sites. Most platforms with this feature are commercial, but there options like http://wordpress.org/plugins/siteapps/. I haven't used that plugin but it looks promising.

Well we had to leave the urchin code as we cannot figure out how to get the new UTMZ cookie into our code.  We did however put back the new UA that we need so results did start to appear again. Thanks for all the help.  If anyone has info on the UTMZ cookie please let me know.

Hi, Can you grab the IP addresses of the visits, e.g. from server logs? It could be automated scraping - Googling some of the IPs will shed some light on that if that is the case, as folks will have posted about this on other forums and cited some of the IPs. If it's a scraper, it might identify itself via an ISP name as well, e.g. when Facebook crawls a page, it IDs itself and the crawl usually comes from Palo Alto or Menlo Park, California. Coming from solely Miami and Chicago sounds suspicious or at least like automation - if this was natural US traffic, you would expect more geographical diversity, even if there was something that particularly interested people in those towns about your site. Andy is 100% right about images too, at which point you can move the images to another file location.

Hi Yoav, I doubt this impacts your SEO as long as it isn't being seen as manipulative. I doubt that though, since the set-up is very transparent. If you want to exclude URL.com as a referrer, check out this guide.