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Hi Mark,

Can you store the details in a cookie that you can retrieve later? Can you load Google Tag Manager in SquareSpace? I know they're a bit limited but I'm not totally familiar with all the possibilities.

Martijn.

Hey David,

Depending on if you're using a custom template or not, you might want to look into this blog posts which is talking about that you can basically register files & styles to be inserted but they don't always have to have the version number: http://wpcrux.com/blog/wordpress-enqueue-functions-version/ . I've dealt with this once before, although it's a super tiny issue that is usually something that I would put on my roadmaps ;).

Martijn.

Hi Alan,

I would try the WordPress community itself, there are usually a ton of developers out there who would be able to understand the complexity. Do understand that most of the time things can be more complicated then it looks like from the outside. I used to work for one of the biggest independent WordPress installs and installing 'a plugin' wasn't a matter of just some drag and dropping compared to what it can be for easy setups.

Martijn.

What specific feature are you looking for? There is a lot of what you can do on Bing too.

I can't think of a better alternative then the one you're already using. It depends a bit on your use case, if it's just about links you might be able to get some historical data from Majestic but that's probably not matching your intent.

Hi Neil,

Think a bit bigger, Google basically has hundreds of millions of users on Android from which they receive location data. That's one of the insights that they're using for this type of data. If you're in a certain polygon (a tiny little area) then you can be targeted as having been there. I'm an avid Swarm user (Foursquare gamification engine) and they do an awesome job of targeting me at a certain location albeit me not checking in there. Google should be able to do the exact same and connect that kind of data to Adwords for you to target.

So yes, your use case might be possible. Although it might be a very tiny segment of people.

Martijn.

Hi,

You probably want to start reading this: https://moz.com/blog/seo-split-testing-a-b-test-changes-google, it's a great post by Will Critchlow explaining what you should be thinking about if you really want to set up valid SEO experiments. I would always advise to run your SEO and UX experiments separately. You analyze them different, you bucket in a different way and the changes that you make for SEO don't always have to influence UX.

Hopefully this will get you going. Let me know if you have more questions.

Martijn.

Hi,

It depends, if they're affecting the current visibility + indexation on the site then yes they will. Otherwise they won't as they're just there. It would probably be best to check your servers log files to see if these files still get any visits from Google. If they do/don't that will be the answer on if anything is being influenced. How you wrote it down in your original question, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Martijn.

What I'm guessing is that Sameer has a significant amount of URLs that have a ton of shares. So some numbers around social share counts might be off due to that. Anyway, what you could evaluate is if you can change the OG urls for only new articles. In the end HTTPS is also the new reality for you, so you might just best suck it up and change it to HTTPS. Likely the impact will be low.

Yes, as the redirect is something that you handle outside of the SSL certificate.

Yups what Nigel is saying, you can't use a SSL certificate for another site. So you should make sure that you buy a new one in order to set up that redirect.

Hi,

It's not really a SERP destination feature, it's basically an extension on the knowledge data that Google has. If you Google for example: seo software you'll likely get a similar setup with a carrousel with the top software for SEO. It's incredibly hard to get as it seems to be information that Google is saving themselves and not directly getting from another site.

Martijn.

Hi Jamie,

Are you sure that there was a crawl since you've made the changes?
In addition it would probably be useful if you could tell us where we might see the changes so we can help you debug a bit more.

Martijn.

Maybe I don't get it, but why wouldn't you want your users to find your login page. Apparently that's what they're looking for. That's why I'm having a hard time figuring out why you would want to no-index that page.

Hi David,

Messing up, Changing or Updating, Deleting a Sitemap is not necessarily something that will decrease the number of ranked or crawled pages. It usually is used a signal to find new pages and figure out if old ones are deleted. But the chances that your sitemap have had a significant impact in what kind of pages went down is something I would find unlikely. It could happen though that you'd see the opposite, an increase in pages indexed/submitted/crawled after you submit a sitemap.

Martijn.

Use a variable that you can put true/false depending on if it's currently back up or not and change/show the no index based on that. Otherwise I'm going to agree with what Nigel is saying, don't ask for something if you can't fix it anyway.

Hi,

It would usually be best to exclude these kind of domains from a search engine to make sure they don't end up as becoming duplicate content.

Martijn.

In addition to IP address you should likely read into Fingerprinting technology. The differences between a incognito browser and your regular window are quite minimal using that technique.

Hey Taylor,

You can do it from a incognito window, that would probably be slightly better then actually comparing it through a logged in window but probably won't make a big difference. In the end you're then still giving away a ton of signals about your browser and who you are (basically the same between the two). Probably better would be to use a random rank tracker who can do this, in that case you'll have less personalized issues.