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Hi Samuel, in short, Google Analytics is accurate enough, and here are a few suggestions to address your discrepancy concerns: 1.  The number of visitors you mention is not large enough to make conclusions about the accuracy of this or that tracking system. 2. Google Analytics might not track  visitors if they don't have java script set or if they block Google Analytics. As a result, Google Analytics reports on a fewer number of visitors. 3.  Your affiliate stats, on the contrary, might track not only java script but also robots that index your website. As a result, your affiliate stats reports on a larger number of visitors. Happy ranking!

When I put a 10+ word phrase from your website in quotes and search Google, I'm seeing at least two other sites with the exact same text. I also see that you have some information straight out of Wikipedia. Have you focused much on your content yet?

Hi David, I've tried to find something for myself sometime ago, but most of them won't deal with you if you don't have a specific turnover. The one I've tried for instance was http://www.cj.com/ What I've ended up doing is to program an affiliate module for my own system, which I have launched recently. It allows visitors to sign up as an affiliate - you then accept them and they can copy code for the banners, links etc. and paste them on their website. They can also access their click reports and any conversion etc. You can try it here: http://www.corewebsitepackage.com/affiliate.html Site is pretty new and I've just started doing SEO on it.

It depends a bit on the scale - if you have a massive amount of affiliate links, they could get devalued, so some people have masked them in the past. The 302 does that, in a sense, but it also blocks the link-juice (or most of it). The 301 redirect would pass the link-juice, but there's a little more risk. If you're talking about 1000s of affiliate links and that's 90% of your link profile, I'd be careful. If it's just one part of your link-building strategy, it's probably not a big risk. As Istvan mentioned, the canonical tag is another option. Visitors would still see the affiliate URL (which may or may not be ideal, depending on your own business model), but search engines would pass link-juice to the target page. In that case, I'd make the canonical page match the landing page (the home-page might not be a good bet) - it's a bit situational. This post is a couple of years old, but it covers the basic options: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022446.html

Thx Nakul, the product is for printed products such as banners, so breaking it down via nitch maybe able to narrow down the options for the customer when looking for such things as a wedding banner and we would of course have no duplicate content, titles, etc .....

Thanks everyone, for your responses.  Got 14 domains coming up for renew, you just saved me $$.  Thanks!

If all you want to do is track your Adwords campaigns then link your Google Analytics to your Adwords account and you should be able to track them easily.

Chris, One way or another, unfortunately, your data will have to end up in Excel for you to get everything you want. Custom reports are powerful, but I suspect getting it all together simply will be impossible. So, the issue is now: the pain in the ass that is re-downloading tons of .csvs everytime. Ultimately, you'd probably best just hiring a GA API expert to build out what you want. But if you want to give it a go on your own, I think where you might get a lot of help is from an Analytics Excel plugin like Excellent Analytics. It can be a bit cumbersome getting the data out that you want, BUT the real benefit is that once you do have the queries in place, you can click update and the new data will roll in (see about 3/4 of the way down on their how-to page: http://excellentanalytics.com/how-to/). I can imagine a scenario where you have a few queries that pull raw data, then some a bunch of references in your master table of data. Also, they're not the only ones with a GA/Excel plugin. Good Luck Mike

Adam, I think as long as you are up front about it to each, it is a good way to build links. As a footer link, it won't have near the strength as if you said just above the footer for example. For the reseller, I would try to get it in the main content and above the fold if at all possible. Give it a go.

No, the only reason Adwords can have somekind of an impact on Organic is when people become aware of your site and search it later using it's name. Beside that, there is no link whatsoever between Adwords and Organic. Maybe .. Maybe if your landing page or site has a problem the Adwords Bots will report it to some team at google, but if it's the case, Googlebot would spot it some time around ... So which one did it doesn't have this much of importance.

I am not an AdWords expert. I suggest possibly going to the AdWords help forums and asking there, where you'll find a few more experts than you might here, and possibly someone from Google themselves will step in. Also, as Gary suggested, give them a call.

I would suggest not deal with affiliating on your company website, but concentrate on making conversions for your services. BUT! There are tons of ways to make it work great. It depends on what kind of website your company is running. Example: You sell products for pregnant woman and after your conversion on your "Thank you page" show several offers like books or video-courses for new mothers Another way if you want to be in internet marketing - set up a separate website for that in a related niche as your company + you will get a good hompage link in the future Serge

Thanks Chas!

Took us about 2 weeks I think - perhaps post something in the Google Webmaster forums? Andy

hi blurbpoint wow, thanks for your in-depth thoughts about this and the helpful references. So it seems that adding parameters to the linked-to url will be a signal that the link is paid for? Makes sense. Only one thing I didn't understand: what do you mean by "saving the website's image while leaving some link juice"?  I didn't quite get that...

Definitely go for the one domain approach in a bid to create a larger digital footprint, I too used to have multiple single domains targeting a keyword or two and now after the last Google Panda update these keyword rich domains aren't as effective as they once were.

Hi Vladimir Our Client is an end to end HR service provider like staffing, payroll, compliance, corporate training and executive search. Lead is someone filling out their contact-us form and contacting them or someone chatting with them by using the Live chat option which is available on their site. Either one of them is what they consider as leads.