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ok great thanks !

Good tip thanks Keri !

Thanks for your comments Nishadha !! I would deifnately do so for different languages but keep seeing and hearing seo/social peeps say that for both seo & social reasons you should set up country specific social paegs such as Twitter and FB So i still welcome peoples opinions as to which ones ?

Hi Dan,Bitly is a great URL shortener, but probably is not the best to customise your links.here are some of the limitations you may find in the free version:1) Changing the destination URL2) Connect more than one custom domain3) Keep your data for more than 30 days4) Make your links private5) Easily and automatically add UTM parametersRead more here: https://support.rebrandly.com/hc/en-us/articles/227131707-Alternatives-to-BitlyFull disclosure: I'm the founder of Rebrandly (https://www.rebrandly.com)

Thanks Tommy Its just a .com at the moment but language versions will be on subfolders .com/us and .com/uk with hreflang handling the rest of the internationalisation in conjunction with webmaster tools etc All the dupe content is on the .com cheers dan

ah yes ! i was looking for a delete button within the campaign dash itself, thanks Peter

Thanks Dan !

Absolutely! Add your subdomain in the field and check the box below to "exclude subdomains".

Danarchism raises a good point. Is there a place where crawl impacts are noted? Given the respect that your metric has earned and the number of questions it raises when there are unexpected fluctuations, it would be really helpful if Moz shared their observations. Also wondering (like Danarchism) if that's already available and I too have missed it. If that's the case, please share. Lastly, was this a one-time anomoly that's now fixed?

Hi Dan Could you send us an email with more information and your account details so we can take a look? help@moz.com Pro will be discontinued this year and there are no feature enhancements for pro that will be supported such as social data as that part has been rebuilt from scratch for Moz Analytics.

Thats great thanks Phil !

No worries. Glad to help.

A fantastic answer, as always Tom !! Many thanks for clarification All Best Dan

many thanks Erica

Thanks for the good info Chris !

Thanks John I do use SensorTower, really looking for a service that combines all, a hybrid of appfigures and sensortower is desired Will check Appcodes when get a chance Thanks for all your comments

Thanks for your comments but im looking directly into subfolder option (since TLD not an option and sub-domain considered bad practice from what i can gather after many days research on Moz etc As a result this is what ill issue to a clients development team in this circumstance is as follows for where sites preferred structure is sub-folders/directories: Implement IP sniffing on the home page ONLY Then have Sub-Folders named after the official country abbreviations which will create a better user experience than both country and language i.e. domain.com/us/ as opposed to domain.com/en-us/ or domain.com/en-gb/ etc etc. This way it will only manipulate the homepage crawling and not site-wide indexing issues. 3) Target these folders to the correct countries in Google’s and Bing’s Webmasters Tools. Use the official country and language codes in the Hreflang mark-up as per point 4. Set up site maps for each subfolder and rel="alternate" hreflang= according to Google guidelines. Here's a great tool to help with correct implementation: http://www.themediaflow.com/resources/tools/href-lang-tool/ Specify the content language/country by adding the 'country-language' meta-tags in the html head 6) Link between each country/language version in a crawl-able and visible manner (for SE and Users) 7) Create individual profiles in GWT & Bing Webmaster Tools for each country/language sub-folder and geo-target accordingly Create individual profiles within GAnalytics for each country/language version and configure to track internal activity between different versions 9) Localise content so has US currency, contact details, spelling etc 10) Other localisation techniques ( such as marking up contact details with schema places code) Note RE: HrefLang & Canonicalisation: An extra advantage of using hreflang is that it will provide a degree of canonicalisation. Should canonical tag be employed in the future never so across language versions if site expand into non English versions. More info here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igbrm1z_7Hk