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Google Analytics and WorldPay - Tracking Sales/Conversions
The "idea" is still valid. You need a "Thank You" page that actually sends the transaction details to Analytics. Users must be redirected to that page after completing the payment, and I guess the return URL is just a variable you set while sending the order details to Worldpay (look into their docs for that: return url). Then, in the "thank you" page you trace the order and create the analytics ecommerce call (with any programing language) depending on the version of Analytics you are using, it could be the ga (ga('require','ecommerce','ecommerce.js'); and then the rest of the transaction details) or the older _TrackTrans() (after the rest of the transaction details). Hope that helps!
Paid Search Marketing | | FedeEinhorn0 -
Instagram # not working
Facebook and Instagram both have filters of sorts that won't allow the visibility you'd like. Has to do with trust factors and the sheer volume of people posting. Idk how new or old your clients instagram is but that may make a difference. Also if you're not on top of what facebook has been trying to do it the world of cutting back on free impressions you should read up on it. Sorry for not having an article to post
Social Media | | SoleGraphics0 -
Site Speed for Magento Site
Hi Rachel. Before you spend money hiring a Magento Expert (the good ones aren't cheap) you can try do the follow: Move your site for a Magento optimize server. I use and recommend Simple Helix. (they will even move your site for free). Use cloud flare pro as your CDN, they have very nice options that will optimize your website code in the fly. https://www.cloudflare.com/features-optimizer Install the GT Metrix Magento Extension. (they have a very nice feature to optimize all the images in your site). Those steps should be enough to bring your load time to 2-3 seconds, I did myself in many magento sites with speed issues however if after that you still having problem you might need hire a magento expert. Felipe
Web Design | | Felip31 -
Negative SEO from Spammers Killing Client Rankings
If you've removed these pages from your site then this will remove the links in Google's eyes. (More info: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2296653/Removing-Unnatural-Links-by-Removing-Pages-on-Your-Website). It can take some time for this to be reflected in the algorithm. You may be able to speed that process up by using the URL removal tool to remove these pages from the Google index. It's also a good idea to run your site through sucuri.net to look for malware as often these hackings go hand in hand with malware. If Google has detected malware on the site then they'll give you a warning message in WMT. Google detecting malware can definitely affect rankings. If you're not sure if you can remove the pages that these bad links are pointing to then you can add the domains to a disavow file and file that. But really, removing the pages should do the trick.
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | MarieHaynes0 -
Duplicate content when changing a site's URL due to algorithm penalty
Hey Masoko - In the past, I've had luck with 410ing the previous site and putting a link from it saying that we've moved. This way, you keep any direct traffic by referring them, but you also don't redirect your pages via 301. Penalties pass through redirects. You don't want to keep both sites and duplicate content. I'd kill off the old site (it's only 6 pages, so that's pretty easy) and take the chance to, as has been said, refresh the content. Also, think about adding more pages to the site so you can rank for more longtail terms. Good luck.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | dohertyjf0 -
How can I Style Long "List Posts" in Wordpress?
Cool, you bet - thanks for following up and letting us know it worked out
Technical SEO Issues | | evolvingSEO0 -
Advertising to competitors fans
You can only target to fans of pages you're currently an admin for. Assuming this isn't the case, there is no way for you to do this as easily as "Target fans of page [competitors name]". There are lots of other targeting options available on Facebook. If you can somehow figure out who your competitors fans are (i.e. e-mail address, phone number, or Facebook ID), you could reach them with a Facebook custom audience.
Social Media | | john4math0 -
Customer Experience vs Search Result Optimisation
Also if I do combine the 2 pages should i 301 the compare page to the other? Thanks Ash
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AshShep10 -
Why did I fall off the SERP for my url query? Im i being penalized?
I cant pinpoint the date but it has been in the last 3-4 weeks. We have never purchased links in the past. As for the Panda algorithm we were ranking as high as third for the term with all those slim content pages so i dont think that is it, but ill look more into it. We have two versions of the site, a paid and example. So it shows 2x the pages when a site: search is done, the HTTP and the HTTPS. That is something we are working on fixing. Thanks for you help and if you have any other idea what could be causing this please share. I also added another picture showing the drop, maybe its more helpful
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Nicktaylor10 -
Can you use multiple keywords for on page for ranking?
One of the ways that we have created new pages is by building a landing page system, where we did have separate pages that targeted each of the groups of consumers that we wanted to use. We created these pages at domains that were not on our main website, allowing us to target our home web page to all of those consumers and draw users in by targeting them specifically with the landing page. If you would like to hear more about our system check out the blog post we wrote about it at https://www.jtechcommunications.com/blog/blog-detail-11
On-Page / Site Optimization | | JTsem0 -
What is the ideal URL structure for a multi-language site?
Hi Jaan Yes that's right, you can use hreflang on the homepage also. I would recommend to use the links I provided to make sure the code is exactly how Google describes. I'm not sure what you mean by your second question but I would keep your category structure as follows: Category URL: http://dispak.ee/en/paperbags/ Product URL: http://dispak.ee/en/paper-product/ Doing it this way keeps the URL shorter and removes any issues with duplicate products under several categories. If you cannot do this then there is no major issue having the category name in the URL also, I just prefer to keep URLs short. I hope this helps.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | adammason1 -
My g+ picture stopped showing up on my rankings. What do I do?
"AgentRank is coming by end of 2014/beginning of 2015. Google is testing this and was forced to reduce the amount of authorship they show in the SERPs. High Quality, Shared Content will be the only posts that have authorship show up going forward." That's my conspiracy theory... carry on.
Technical SEO Issues | | DarinPirkey0 -
What if your content is getting social shares but no links?
I agree with Aaron here. Both elements are important. If there were quite a few more social shares then it would be easier to ignore the lack of links. Do a test for a couple months - rather than posting weekly, post every other week and make the content more substantial - longer form text, lots of good formatting like h2/h3s, bullets, photos, etc. Target a higher value term. Also consider running a small Facebook ad ($15-25) or Twitter/LinkedIn featuring that post, and targeting it towards the exact type of demographics you want to see it. I think you'll get a lot better return from this type of approach.
Content & Blogging | | KaneJamison0 -
Google Places for Business for a national company?
There are no problems at all. Google+ Local's ranking factor is a bit different from Google organic rankings. If you actually link building for local citations, you will also find a variety of link building opportunities for your organic ranking as well.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | TheeDigital0 -
Losing traffic - What are we doing wrong ?
On top of Dana's answer, it's worth looking here - http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change - to see if your traffic started dropping again after any particular updates.
Link Building | | Alex-Harford0 -
First campaign stalled...
Hi There, It sounds like you may have run into some server or browser issues. Can you try refreshing the page and creating the campaign again? If that doesn't work, can you clear your cookies/cache and restart your browser? Generally, one of these two tasks will fix what's going on. If you still run into issues after performing these two things, please send a ticket into support with the URL you're trying to set the campaign up with and we'll take a closer look at this for you. Thanks! Sam Moz Helpster
Technical Support | | SamWeber0