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What are peoples thoughts and ratings on SEO agencies in London. There are so many of them it is hard to understand which are the best.

Hi Matthew

It's hard to tell without seeing the reports but are you looking at all visits in Google rather than organic search visits in the acquisition reports? I thought MOZ gets visits from GA so unless you have linked to a different GA account to the one you are looking at or picked a different time period I can't see how they would be different.

On the BItly examples I've seen although the link says bitly.com the referring has a domain of t.co. Have you looked to see if there are any from t.co?

I get the same. I assume it is because Moz are still running Moz analytics in a kinda beta. So they copied across campaigns from Pro but any new campaigns you create under analytics are not copied back.I like the new analytics so I just stick to that.

You could put the pages in a sub directory such as /lawsuit-loans/ which is neater than putting in the url. However if you use the words enough on the page and home page that link to them it should be OK with not including as long as your site isn't about lots of other things not to do with loans and lawsuits.

They are called site links and I'm sorry to say you can't control if they appear. Google gives them to popular sites. See Google info on it if you need any more https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en

Hope that helps?

Yes good idea to add code before going live.  Worth creating two views (profiles) one where you filter out the local hostname (domain) traffic and the other where you only include the live hostname traffic. This means you won't mistake testing traffic for real traffic.  Let me know if you need any other help on doing that.

Anyone come across a good small independent MVT/testing agency in London?  I've used the big companies before and I feel you get better value for money with a small agency, although it is harder to find a good one.

I just tried it and it worked for me, it got a Grade C with term in title, URL and H1.  Try it again and see what you get.

With big screen mobiles the old mimimal m. designs are less important but it is still critical to have fast page load times. If you have GA you can page load averages by browsers so you can see if mobile browsers are a lot slower. A slow site may well affect your bounce. There is a great blog post on the impact of site speed on mobile traffic at http://blog.kissmetrics.com/loading-time/

Also note that page speed (at least to first byte) affects search ranking see http://moz.com/blog/how-website-speed-actually-impacts-search-ranking so always important to optimise this.

Hope that helps?

Hi is there any advantage to using <cite class="vurls">goo.gl/</cite> to shorten a URL for Twitter instead of other ones?  I had a thought that <cite class="vurls">goo.gl/</cite> might allow google to track click throughs and hence judge popularity.

Sorry to revive a long dead post but a good book never goes away. I suggest reading something outside of the marketing community that will help with understand people more and so get the creative juices flowing for new marketing ideas.  Try David McRaney "You are not so smart" or anything by Robert B. Cialdini.

It could be a coincidence, have you tried doing it over a different time period.  Bounce rate and exits from start page are slightly different.  If you have interactions tagged on the page such as Events and the user triggers them then leaves it will not be a Bounce but will be an Exit. Also, if you are not using premium, GA uses sampling so expect differences.

In Web analytics tools in general I expect up to a 5% difference for the same metric in different reports, that's why it is all about trending over time and comparison rather than absolute numbers.

Hope that helps?

Some of the social media icons can slow the page load down which is a conversion rate optimisation no no. So it is best to put at the bottom in my experience, so that it doen't hold up above the fold content loading. This is particuarly true as, unless you have uber cool content, don't expect too many interactions.  I would certainly include google+ though as you may get some SEO benefit.

Hi, thanks for your responses.  It's been live for almost a month now.  I can't find words that rank in top 50 for this page. I was hoping it would appear somewhere with the content that it currently has and wondering if there is some penalty that is not showing in the Webmaster tools.

I have a page http://jobs.hays.co.uk/jobs-in-norfolk and it is indexed by Google but will not show up for any keywords I try. Any ideas?