Reliable Tracking of Campaign with Subdomain and Subfolder

[ValerieSchmidt]

Hi,

i was wondering if i can rely on the tracking for a campaign like

subdomain.example.com/subfolder/

The idea is to measure all the data regarding e.g. one specific language within a subdomain and use the tools based on this data.

Thank you in advance.

[Mike.Goracke]

When you create a new campaign, choose:

"Subfolder

Track a specific subfolder.  Note that the subfolder path must resolve or we will not be able to crawl the content of that folder.

Examples: www.seomoz.org/tools, guides.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization"

From your example and the second example in the quote above, you should be able to do the subdomain.example.com/subfolder structure.

Hope this helps.

Mike

[ValerieSchmidt]

Thank you, Mike.

The Crawl Diagnostics data of a sub folder is always a substitution from the Crawl Diagnostics data of the root domain, *.example.com/ right?

What about having the same language for 2 countries in different sub folders? Does it distort the data?

[Mike.Goracke]

Correct. When you setup to campaign a subfolder, you will only get crawl diagnostics and reports for that particular subfolder.

SEOMoz Help states, "The PRO Web App crawls, grades and checks rankings only for pages found on that domain or subfolder. When tracking a subfolder, we will only crawl pages that exist in that specific folder. We will not crawl links that go to other folders."

If you were to create 2 campaigns:

subdomain.example.com/USA

subdomain.example.com/Canada

And both pages are in English, you will get different crawl diagnostics and other metrics for these campaigns.

Does that make sense?

Mike