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Of course. You can see one of mine here at http://linkbuilding.inetseo.co.uk. That started to rank after less than a week of it going live. -Andy

Hi Donatas, The best practice will be use canonical tag pointing to one main product.  Whether you want everything to /product or /superbrand/product, so as long as you have the canonical in place, it will avoid the duplicate content issue. I would suggest using a more simple url as the main canonical URL such as /superbrand/product instead of /superbrand/woman/product as keyword effectiveness in URL decreases as it gets longer. Hope this answers your question.

Hi Xoffie, Google passes around link juice based on the version of the site that Googlebot is served when it crawls your site. Googlebot has a few IP addresses (which will indicate it's location for your server to choose a version of your homepage), but most of them are in the US, so it's likely that Google will see the US version of your site. So the question is, is the US version of your site what you want Google to see?

Thanks, Martijn, The lawyer that is helping me put together the new privacy policy says I need to use this copy: "We also use third party cookies (such as DoubleClick) to run Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These cookies gather website visitor data (such as age, gender, and interests) to optimize website content and marketing and do not collect any personally identifiable information." I can't find where Google actually explains how the demographics and interests info is determined. The instructions, such as they are, are in the digital advertising section, so it may be possible third-party cookies are involved (?). Ah well, better to err on the side of caution - we can say that they are in use, and not get into trouble if they aren't...but if we do use them and don't say so, then we can get into trouble. --Janet

thx, Ashley. I can certainly track mobile vs desktop in analytics. My question centers on whether there is some research out there on time users spends on mobile site vs PC and maybe such studies give examples on different industries. My site's users spend about 7-8min from PC and about 5-6min from mobile……looking for some data to get a sense if my mobile is doing well or could be better optimized…..

Fantatic - thank you David & Frederico!

This could change in traffic be soooo many things without knowing your site's entire background. There could be a Panda/Penguin penalty in play (I have no way of knowing) so read up on those and make sure you're not a victim of duplicate/thin content and/or shady link building practices (even if they occurred in the past, use OSE to take a look). I'm not seeing the redirect from non www to www as an issue in terms of ranking but double check that you implemented that correctly.  I haven't heard of losing rankings over this tweak before but I suppose it's possible that it takes Google a some time to figure that out (though I dont see why it would hurt rankings in the interim). Other sites outranking you for your own article is actually quite common if you're not on a strong domain otherwise.  3rd page sounds rather harsh though.  Are you engaging in any questionable link building practices? Without knowing more it's really tough to say what your site's problem might be.  I think I can rule out the 301 redirect from www to non-www if implimented correctly.  Sean is correct in checking your robots.txt file as well. Hope I answered your question if not solving your greater problem for you!

Hi Nick, It is pretty normal to see discrepancies between data from different sources. Google and Moz have different crawlers with different datasets, so it is often the case that you will see different numbers - I've never seen them match up! I very much doubt that crawl errors like this would be causing big fluctuations in your rankings. Google have gone on record saying that crawl errors are very unlikely to directly impact rankings. Having said that, it's still best to try and fix errors wherever possible. As pointed out below, you can use a tool like Screaming Frog to verify the data that is being show to you by Moz and Google and then go and check those pages. I hope that helps! Paddy

I suspect Google have lumped it in with Iraq and/or turkey.  The next level down from country is city, so you might be able to work out the traffic from Kurdistan by summing the cities traffic. Hope that is of some help.

Hi Carl What to do now when Google have banned the site.. all the keywords is on page 6, is it possible to get the site back on the track again!!

As Jeff mentioned, it could very well be Google running a test - they run small tests like this quite often.

thanks alot - the issue is now solved so everything is back faster and better than ever.

Hi Kevin, Good thoughts from Kevin Ramirez regarding content development and Richard Horvath regarding ensuring that the content you develop is unique! The challenge here is that Google is biased toward physical location. Thus, an SAB (service area business) must typically plan to go after local pack rankings for its city of location and organic rankings for its location-less service cities. The type of content you will be developing is typically known as city landing pages. You can read more about this here: The Nitty Gritty of City Landing Pages

are you sure it's an http vs https, and not a www vs non-www issue? Thanks again

You are not alone. I don't understand as well and would love to hear an answer on this!

Well, the way I see it is it gives you two bits of info: It tells you if the homepage is the strongest URL on your domain. If it's not, you have a big problem. It tells you which pages Google thinks are most relevant as a search result for your domain. This is basically useless.  However, if you add any keyword to it, now it is 100% relevance for that keyword. site:mysite.com keyword That puts the pages on your site in order of SEO strength (for the most part.)  The list by itself acts (more) like: site:mysite.com mysite.com

Interesting... one of my clients has the opposite problem. Bounce rate is over 50% yet average pages per visit is over 4 and average time per page is over 3 minutes. Peter's suggestion seems to be a very good one. Check individual pages to see who needs fixing the most. Put more oil on the squeaky wheels.

With that sort of sample per month you should be able to get some interesting data from tracking the clicks from links that have a title and comparing to links that don't. Peter