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I've checked and haven't seen anything on my end.  GA is also showing ppc ads landing on the cart page and I know we don't have the cart page set as a destination URL in any campaign.

Hey,

Google Analytics is reporting visitors landing on pages that I know do not receive visits from organic, paid, or referral sources.  For example, the cart page of my site is the seventh most popular organic landing page on my site.  Also, various log in pages appear to be popping up in my landing pages reports.

I have checked for inconsistencies in the tracking code placed on my site and have not noticed anything abnormal.  The same code that appears on product and category pages appears on the cart and log in pages.

I also understand that if a person does not interact with a page for 30 minutes and then clicks on the cart page this will be recorded as an entrance.  Would this be reported as a entrance from the source that the person originally came to my site from, or a direct return visit?

Has anyone else had a similar issue?  If so, were you ever to find a logical explanation for this or a solution to what could be causing this?

Thanks

If the main category is Digital Marketing then I would have the URL be /digital-marketing/.  I think its important to consider how you plan to use the category in the future and build for that so you don't have a funky structure in the future and/or have to do a bunch redirects to fix it.  I understand that's not always possible and things may come up you hadn't considered.

I would have your URL represent your site architecture.  If Digital Marketing is a subcategory of Marketing I would have the URL structure represent that by using example.com/marketing/digital/...

If you plan on adding more subcategories at a later date it will save a lot of headaches by just having your URL structure represent your site architecture.

It is true that you will most likely not be penalized for these pages, Google is pretty good at figuring out common canonicalization problems in my opinion and would most likely not penalize you for having duplicate content.  I would encourage you to dig a little deeper and see what additional problems these pages could create though.

Consider that Google will waste valuable crawl bandwidth crawling these meaningless pages, rather than focusing on the important content you want them too.  If Google is crawling them, you can most likely bet that PageRank is flowing through these pages as well, diluting the link equity of your site.

Are you using Wordpress?  There are a lot of great plug ins that can help you manage these pages.  You could control how Google crawls these pages with your robots.txt, by placing meta robots tags on the pages using a plug in, or by placing rel=canonical tags on the pages pointing back to the page that is the original source.

I crawled your site and didn't see the 404 errors.

I did notice that your sitemap in your robots.txt 404's so you may want to take a look at that.

Are you seeing these 404s in Webmaster Tools or when crawling the site?

If WMT where does it say the 404 is linked to from? Click on the URL with the 404 error in WMT and select the "Linked from" tab.

Crawl the site with Screaming Frog and your user agent set to Googlebot.  See if the same 404 errors are being picked up and if so, you can click on them and select the "In Links" tab to see what page the 404 is being picked up on.

I checked the source code of some of the pages on www.kempruge.com and didn't see any relative links which usually create problems like this.  My bet is on a site scraping your site and creating 404 errors when they link back to your site.

You are essentially cloaking a keyword rich H1 tag.  I would not do this as it is against Google Webmaster Guidelines.

Good luck!

I misunderstood you before, I thought you meant the old URLs had the anchors.

You are correct, technically the tabs are not unique pages.  You would have to redirect each of the previous pages to http://www.teapigs.co.uk/tea/matcha_shop rather than to the anchored URL.

Having content under tabs may limit your ability to rank for a variety of keywords.  For example, if previously there was a page ranking for "What is Matcha?", it may now be difficult to rank for this term because there is no longer a unique page dedicated to the topic.  You lose the ability to have a unique URL, Title Tag, Meta Description, H1, and so on.

Is the content technically on one page (ww.website.co.uk/product) and just being displays based on the anchor in the URL?

Has Google indexed the anchored URLs? In my experience Google does not index anchored URLs.

I'd love to see an example to see how it is coded; however, if they are just anchored URLs displaying content that is all located on one page, the products page, then the products page would be the only page you can redirect.  Technically, anchored URLs are not unique pages.

If the content is being generated with AJAX and your developers are using the hashbang method to serve a unique URL, I don't believe you would see the hash in the URL.

You have to copy and paste it, for some reason it looks like it's a relative link.

If your content is significantly different you will be fine.  There are a lot of websites using the same basic Word Press themes with minimal customization so I don't see how this would be any different.  Though Google is getting more advanced at determining the lay out and make up of a page, I'm not sure that theme and design elements are as distinguishable to them.

Sorry for the cliche response, but I would worry more the quality content than the length of the content.  Are your users going to feel fulfilled with less than 300 words?  Maybe for some topics.  I doubt there is a magic number to get links.

If you are churning out blog posts of an "optimal" length but they aren't engaging you probably will not see any benefit.

Long story short: Don't worry about the length.  If you are writing just to write, you probably shouldn't expect much in return.

I think alt tags are still relevant.  It's another way of helping Google identify what a page is about.  Are a few alt tags alone going to make or break your rankings? Probably not, but it doesn't hurt to optimize what you can.

I would focus on the singular version in title tags and URL, then in the copy of the page use both versions as well as synonyms.

You won't be penalized for it, but why would you need to?  I would think about if what ever is appearing above the H1 really needs to be in an H2 tag.

If the content is generated before the page is served to users and search engines they will see it like any other page.  Check out the source code of the page, if the content is in there you are fine.

I would look into installing a module called Global Redirect.  It should take care of this problem for you.  I used to work exclusively in Drupal and made sure this was installed on every site.

https://drupal.org/project/globalredirect

http://developerkarma.com/2008/04/22/step-step-guide-installing-drupal-module-global-redirect.html

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