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Maybe add things you can do to improve performance?

Well, since google is obsessed with speed and it's likely that the "handshake" -- I won't get that deep.

https:// and http:// are two different links. We all know that. .TLDs don't matter.. HTTPS:// doesn't matter. It's all the same. However maybe you can run a test: www.google.com/websiteoptimizer and see if the user engagement is better.

How fast is the site? Add: _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']);  to your google analytics ( right after your _trackPageview ) and see how everyone else is handing it.

The bottom answer is: No. It will not effect your SERPs however if your sites not fast then thats something you should think about. I just installed: http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/ on my server and that does help a bit.

EXACTLY what I was looking for.

Yea I have woopra going right now and google analytics real-time shows 48-50 (active visitors) woopra shows 18. it's so weird. The live chat thing is cool.

How do I set-up alerts that shows me when we're getting more traffic than normal from a x site?

Actually this looks really cool. I never heard of it. Do you know if you can do this in google analytics? woopra looks pretty awesome though! I'm going to sign-up.

I know that with the new version of google analytics coming out we're going to be able to see live data. My question is this.

• Is there a way that I can set something up where we're getting more traffic from some source we haven't got before and it's sending a lot of traffic.. I get alerted?
• I would also like to know if we're loosing or increasing traffic from a source by % percent that I get alerted.

When I say get alerted I mean: Something in the dashboard or somehow do this with GA or some other way?

You also need long tail and branded links. Don't stop building links to justify the change. You should see a change back in the SERPs in about 3 weeks. I did the same thing.

yea me too: Listening to Matt Cutts here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/rel-canonical-html-head/ If you want to fast forward to: 1:30 and it seems to me that hes saying that you can have a canonical from what I understand: anywhere. Hearing that and wondering how the search engines REALLY interpret iframes ( as they want to read a site more like a human ) how will they handle the canonical.

Sure not 100% of the site actually us a duplicate but the main stuff is. It makes me wonder. I'll really know if I see a backlink from eBay in OSE. ( not saying that that is the goal but the content is ours and if the shoe was on the other foot and we getting penalized..)

My client is generating templates for his eBay template based on content he has on his eCommerce platform.

I'm 100% sure this will cause duplicate content issues. My question is this.. and I'm not sure where eBay policy stands with this but adding the canonical tag to the template.. will this work if it's coming from a different page i.e. eBay?

Update:

I'm not finding any information regarding this on the eBay policy's: http://ocs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?CustomerSupport&action=0&searchstring=canonical

So it does look like I can have rel="canonical" tag in custom eBay templates but I'm concern this can be considered: "cheating" since rel="canonical is actually a 301 but as this says: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html it's legitimately duplicate content.

The question is now: should I add it or not?

UPDATE seems eBay templates are embedded in a iframe but the snap shot on google actually shows the template. This makes me wonder how they are handling iframes now. looking at http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/search-engine-simulator.shtml does shows the content inside the iframe. Interesting.

Anyone else have feedback?

Yes -- I have the @ in my title.

Thats a good question! I can't honestly say but if that is showing correctly then you don't need to worry about it effecting the rankings or your CTR.

How does the magnifying glass look that takes a snapshot of the page? If that looks fine then remember what the search crawler actually sees: http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

If you're blocking /scripts and your CSS is in there then yes - you are blocking it.

I work with a dating agency and I see this a lot now where google would actually take the content from the site and display what they think is relevant to that search term. They change where the description would be..  with your page content. It's actually helped us. I actually haven't seen this case in the title but I imagine its the same kind of thing.

In another note: Did your meta data change recently? If so you would need to wait for Google to re-cache.

I imagine they are going to release it when they release social monitoring tool. Did you notice today the new dashboard for the "pro"?

Multiple sitemaps help! There is a really good article here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/multiple-xml-sitemaps-increased-indexation-and-traffic and I think this is where you're going to need to start.

One thing you can do is help google with pagination: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

In google webmaster tools under site configuration there is a section for URL parameters. I would look at that too.

If you want to fix all of the url parameters like: ?profession=RN&speciality= then maybe use $_POST instead of $_GET or set up landing pages for all of the different types of pages.

What does: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20034082-crawl-diagnostics say?

A good way to check is go to google.com and type in your full URL like this:

site:www.domain.com

Then you will be populated with your sites pages of course. Now there is a link there that says: "cache" and you can see what it cached.

I think they may be getting better at knowing what's in a iframe. Look at how many sites use facebook comments on the blog and how do you think thats ran? iframes. Do you remember google and adobe working together at reading .pdf's and flash.

The little magnifying glass has some cool technology behind it that I'm sure helped them know whats really on the site. Without getting to far off track I do feel like they are better at reading iframes. Just my .02c in this thread.

Sure we all know about oDesk or textbroker but is there a place people can go to hire higher quality writers?