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"I suppose this can be done in   Traffic sources > All traffic sources. Am i right ?" sounds about right or in other words, yes

"I really, really would like to know what specific tweet traffic was generated."
each time you make a new tweet where you want to link to an article on your site, you should run through steps 1-7 and then use the link generated.

If I were you though I would read som tutorial on URL's and query strings to get the know how behind what your doing. that way you won't be shooting in the dark and will be able to write those URL's by hand.

When doing SEO, SEM and SMM its a good idea to have a basic understanding in HTML/CSS and how URI/URL's work. And know Analytics/adwords tool set by heart.

To be a good SEO: you should be able to read and write HTML, CSS and Javascript + have a basic understanding of DNS records and domains.

To be a great SEO: You should be all of the above and be able to write some basic PHP/ASP/ASP.NET and have at least a basic understanding about servers.

Hope it helps. If there is something you need me to elaborate please tell me what and I'll try to do so

actually google has the answer, right here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75712

I always try to do what google recommends even though something might work just as well.. just to be on the safe side

you can't submit a sitemap in GA so I'm guessing you mean GWT

Whether or not you put it in the robots.txt shouldn't be a problem. since in each sitemap, the urls would look something like this:

Sitemap 1:<url><loc>http:/yoursite.coim/somepage.html</loc></url>

Sitemap 2:<url><loc>http:/yoursite.dk/somepage.html</loc></url>

I see no need to filter what sitemap is shown to the crawler. If your .htaccess is set-up to redirect traffic from the TLD (top level domain eg .dk .com ex.) to the correct pages. Then the sitemaps shouldn't be a problem.

The best solution would be: to have a web in web. (a folder for each site on the server) and then have the htaccess redirect to the right folder. in this folder you have a robots.txt and a sitemap for that specific site. that way all your problems will be gone in a jiffy. It will be just like managing different 3 sites. even though it isn't.

I am no ninja with .htaccess files but I understand the technology behind it and know what you can do in them. for a how to do it guide, ask google thats what I allways do when I need to goof around in the htaccess. I hope it made sense.

If you don't care what tweet the visitor comes from then you can just see it in GA. But if you want to know what specific tweet traffic was generated by, the yes, you need to do something like what the article stated.

You need to build a new url for each tweet or you won't be able to track the specific tweet.

I hope it made sense else ask me to clarify and I'll do so

you could use an url shorten-er like bit.ly but GA can tell you this whitout the use of all that, so why not just check the trafic sources in GA?

I would suggest both, since someone might be searching for it while on a trip or visiting the family during the weekend and hence might not be geographically in the town at the time of his/her search.

True as a european I would have loved to go.. but it would have been a very time consuming not to mention expensive trip for us Europeans.

I see no need to use robots.txt for that. use Google and Bings webmaster tools. Here you have each domain registered  and can submit sitemaps to them for each domain.

If you want to make sure that your sitemaps are not crawled by a bot for a wrong language. I would set it up in the .htaccess to test for the entrance domain and make sure to redirect to the right file. Any bot will enter a site just like a browser so it needs to obey the server. so if the server tells it to go somewhere it will.

the robots.txt can't by it self, do what you want. The server can however. But in my opinion using bing and google webmaster tools should do the trick.

as far as I understood the law when it was voted on back in the day. It's not illegal to use cookie but you must ask the end user for his her permission first. But here is a little trick: you are not allowed to store a cookie on a clients computer. You are however allowed to store all the data you want (not true but close enough) on the server.

Enter the session cookie! here you can do whatever you want.

Another thing you could do is (if it's a community or equivalent) make your conditions of use include the rights to use the cookie.

If your doing e-commerce there is no real reason for you to store data on your shopper's computer a session cookie will do just fine.

actually when you think about it the law isn't as dumb as it first sounds like. It's there to protect the consumer not to make your life easy (and it doesn't we can agree on that

for keyword targeting, the short answer is: yes.

Tthe longer answer is: Yes but be careful with too long URL's

It's not something for the faint of heart you need to know how to program some server side language and javascript. But armed with that knowledge (or a good front end developer) you should be able to do it. For more technical bable on making a snapshot see this page (not that it's talking about ajax and not what I mentioned but the technique is the same)

http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/html-snapshot.html

I spoke about this subject in a previous thread, but basically you need to make a HTML5 website and check the browser for html5 support, if support is present show the site, if not show a flash version.

what they are saying is that they are working with adobe to make the google bot better at crawling flash sites. but I would refer to googles help pages on this subject. On the other hand I would make a HTML5 snapshot of the site, and serve this to google and to iPad/iPhone users. that way you'll make google happy and not use the i-Phone/pad people.

But yes there are technologies out there, that you can use to help google crawl your site. But my guess is that they are doing exactly what I mentioned above (just only for google).

yes and no.. you have to keep bounce rate and stuff like that in mind (pandas are out there) the ideal situation.

a site where clients visit a few pages there before heading to your main site.

ahh what your talking about is a bit different from what I thought you meant, but ok lets focus on your question now that I know what your talking about.

I would make the http://cheshireweddingphotographyblog.co.uk into a landing page of some sort and work allot on usability and design and have the content focus on weddings.

if you use the frame forward you'll risk creating duplicate content and all sort of other problems. frame forwards are the worst thing that was ever invented and google hates them, allot. since your able to cheat Google's clients.

No! 2 things speak against it. 1stly your in danger of creating duplicate content. 2ndly frames are hard to crawl for the bots, stay away from them, unless you really know what your doing there is a good chance you'll screw up your indexation.

I would use the domains for something constructive like landing pages or something that will generate traffic to your site.

I haven't read your previus questions but here's my two cents: Whatever you do, DO NOT do that!

it will make it very difficult for the robots to crawl your site and some won't even do it.

I would advice you to find a new host. and move all of your material to the new blog.

A iframe solution is one of the worst solutions you can make.

just re-read your question and it seems that I didn't read your question properly before asking.

So I'll try again: When ppl open an email and click the link, the only way Google can tell where they are coming form is look at the referrer. Meaning if the user comes from an email, lets say he opened it in outlook, google can't see where he comes from. It will track a visit such as this as a direct visit. if the opened from a webmail (gmail, hotmail ex.) the webmail client will be the referrer. But that could just as well have been a link he was send from a friend. Or a commercial in another newsmail from an affiliate site.

Without GA installed Google is as blind as a bat and can only track traffic to the site from google search or other google programs/products. What and how much data it tracks from chrome I don't know (haven't researched it, besides what they tell the public and what they might do are two very different things, they have been naughty boys before.)

I hope that answered your question.

when using google analytics you can easily trace your news mails by doing something like this: when you link from a news mail, you add a query string to the end of the URL, to look something like this:

check out our new site here

or if your referring to a specific article (in old/bad CMS's they can already contain querystrings at the end of the URL, then you just add the following.

check out our new site here

doing that you can easily track the news mail links in google analytics. Measure bounce rates exc.

since it's very onlikely that your CMS is looking for a var called newsmail this method will not effect your site and will give you an easy way to track the hits from your mails.

1stly Google might notice some hacked pages and flag them as potentially harmful. But your main problem is these:

• potental client will most likely not come back if they tried once and failed
• google might have tried to access a page and had looong loading times or a server error when trying to load a page
• when a client loads a page and the server is under a DoS or simular attack the server will slow down and the page load speed will do the same resulting in bad loading speeds.

All of the above and more that I probably forgot will harm your SEO efforts and end user experience, harming trust.

some of the above you should be able to see in GWT and GA. in particular the loadtimes and HTTP error codes, bounce rates ex.

page 1 points to page 2 that points back to page 1.. this or simular situations will make fubar for Google

you can actualy do the same with 301's but it's wayyyy easier to notice.. the rel is allot harder to notice if you do something wrong since it only affects google/bing