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Rich,

Because responsive design inherently only uses one html file, what you're describing isn't so simple. Obviously, you only want to include 1 GA tracking code, but you COULD include some logic that fires a different one on page load depending on detected screen width. I think your best bet is to just use the standard GA code in your HTML, then include some JS that detects which of the layouts are displayed on load, and sends it in a custom variable. Alternatively, GA, by default, will capture screen size as a data point, so, as long as your responsiveness is working properly, you can just create segments in GA based on those and view site behavior accordingly.

Mike

The data comes direct from Google Webmaster Tools, which only displays data back 3 months. I can't recall if GA stores the data for us so it holds further back, though. Still, this seems to be pretty common. Oh well.

301s will preserve the referral data, so it should not be the case that it's being stripped out.

Hey Lisa,

I was just reading a post about Google News errors and I remembered your question.

This part might help?

Unknown publication name – an error that I frequently come across in troubleshooting Google News issues is an “unknown publication name” error for the Google News sitemap, which is reported in the Sitemaps section of the site’s Google Webmaster Tools profile**.** This error is triggered when the publication name used in the <name>tags in the Google News sitemap is not an exact match to the publication name in Google News’ database</name>. To determine the correct name to use do a [site:domain] search in Google News and see what publication name is displayed for the indexed pages**.**

Source: http://www.adamsherk.com/seo/the-most-common-google-news-errors/

Lisa,

Tough one. Sorry for the delay, had to ping a few folks.

As for the naming error, is it possible that the site was registered in Google News originally with a slightly different name? In the application form, the name of the publication is a pretty important step, and any minor difference might raise a flag. The Sitemap calls the publication "Mother Nature Network". Perhaps it was registered with something slightly different?

Another thought: Considering the site is showing up when you do a Google News Site Search, is it possible that the traffic hasn't disappeared overall, but it's just not being properly attributed in Google Analytics anymore?