Try applying this Advanced Segment, which will segment out your metrics showing only the traffic which originated from America:

https://www.google.com/analytics/web/template?uid=XGA6--mISZqq4AT60sJBRQ

Once the advanced segment is applied, you can look around on various reports and try to see if you can find anything which seems out of whack.

Could also create two Advanced Segments, one showing traffic only from Safari, the other showing all traffic except from Safari, then compare the metrics to see how the Safari traffic differs from that which is not Safari (assuming it does).

You might want to try escaping the question mark, so:

/?specifications

The syntax of the GA ecommerce tracking code would be the same on different pages of your site.  When the documentation refers to 'multiple trackers', it's talking about if you want to log the ecommerce transactions into 2 separate GA accounts.

So for your question, same JavaScript code on all receipt pages is what you want.

Sorry about that, I misread your question.

I wasn't really sure of the answer once I reread your question, but I did find this link from Google Support after digging around a bit: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1213138

This is because of Google's (fairly) recent change in reporting of search referrals within Google Analytics.  If the user who visits your site is using Google under SSL (so with a https prefix), their search term is hidden and shows up in Google Analytics as (not provided).  So when you look at the list of search queries in GA, you are only looking at the queries that people searched for when they weren't accessing Google through SSL.  Everything else gets lumped into (not provided).

In Webmaster Tools though, you're able to see ALL of the searches, even the ones from HTTPS searches.  That's what creates the discrepancy.

My opinion would be that DIV-based markup is the better choice here.  As you said yourself, it's not really tabular data, so in using DIVs you can use semantic markup which is a positive for SEO.

You could improve/cleanup the markup of that data though, by:

• Use

  ,

  ,

  tags.  Even the bolded text in the lefthand column are basically headers for the text in the righthand column.

• You should remove the empty class="hr">tags, which I assume are in there to create the horizontal lines.  It's nit picky, as if you remove them, you'll need to add a 'wrapper DIV' surrounding each row, so you won't really be cutting down on the code used that much.  But having empty tags that are only there for presentation purposes is generally frowned upon.  You could create the same visual effect by using a border or by using a background image (if you want the line to not fully extend across the row).

That's all pretty nitpicky coding stuff though.  For SEO purposes, I think the only thing that might have an affect is using the <hx>tags.</hx>

I would handle this situation using the URL parameters screen within Google Webmaster Tools (shown in the attached screenshot).  You can add URL parameters into the screen and set them to have 'no effect', which means when Google indexes your site, whatever URL parameters you're set to 'no effect' will be ignored by the spider.

webmaster-tools.png

If the partner site would allow you to add code to their thank you page, you could have them just add your existing Google Analytics tracking code to that page and then page views of thankyou.html would start showing up in your Google Analytics.

The problem with that though is that it will show ALL page views of thankyou.html, not just the page views that originate from referrals from your domain.  So this would only work if you are sending traffic to a page on the partner's site that is exclusive to your domain.

You could actually set up a custom report in GA to show only page views of thankyou.html where the referrer is your domain, but you'd have a bunch of additional page views mixed in with your data that have nothing to do with your site.

You might also want to consider using Google Analytics virtual pageviews and custom events for tracking of interactions on your site which are not tracked by default.  This would include things like:

• Download of PDF or other 'non web page' files.
• Social media interactions ('likes' and 'shares')
• Clicks that show/hide content elements with CSS and/or JavaScript

Tracking these interactions in Google Analytics will lower your bounce rate, though obviously you would not actually be improving the user experience of your site.  I think though, that having your bounce rate be affected by meaningful user interactions on your site like these will give you a better sense of what your 'true bounce rate' is (meaning, the percentage of users who come to your site and literally do nothing).

I have a similar situation on the site I manage, with tons of links in the footer that lead to this warning.  I've been considering using an iframe to separate out the code of my footer into a different file (i.e. footer.html) and then blocking Google's access to that footer file in my robots.txt file (note that blocking Google's access would only make any sense if all of those links are available elsewhere on your site than the footer).

Ah, nevermind.  I found this other threads discussing the exact same thing.  Should have searched...

http://www.seomoz.org/q/will-using-https-across-our-entire-site-hurt-our-external-backlinks

Hi All,

I'm dealing with an internal IT staff that is trying to change an entire site to run on HTTPS instead of HTTP.  The way they want things configured, all links pointing to HTTP URLs would redirect to the HTTPS.

I'm assuming this would adversely affect page rank/domain authority, etc... am I right there?

Thanks,

Ben

Hi Miriam,

Thanks very much for the comprehensive response!  Very helpful.

Ben

Hi All,

I am the Web Marketing Manager for a small, yet global, company.  I've just started working at this company and I am focusing a lot of attention right now on link building, as the company is not great there in comparison to competitors.

So right now I'm submitting us to directories.  My question is whether submitting to things like Yelp and the Google Local Business Directory make sense for a global company.  I want the inbound links available from those sources, but I just want to make sure I'm not missing something in regards to this.  i.e. a pissed off customer could leave a negative review about the company on Yelp.  That doesn't worry me, because if a customer is pissed off and wants to vent online, they'll find somewhere to do it.

Is there anything else related that I might be missing?

Thanks,

Ben Alvord