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Hello, my friend.

I have been asking myself the same question you ask here

Well, i have done very scientific statistical research on a corner of newspaper while i had my morning coffee And the results I got weren't surprising at all. The conversion rates on traditional advertising are way lower and much more expensive.

Now, as to the question you asked. The only(!) way to do this properly is to run only one(!) type of advertising at the time, for somewhat significant period of time (i'd say at least three months, plus another three months to track "snowball" results).

So, this is the way I'd do it (requires lots of time, money and several clients who are ready to be lab hamsters

1. Let's say you have 4 non-seasonal-type-of-business clients, without any advertisement/marketing running at the moment. Track their conversion rates for three months, traffic spikes, growth over this time and all metrics like this.
2. Then start only one type of marketing per client. Let's say first client gets internet marketing, second - TV, third - radio, fourth - billboards/outside display marketing. Let it run for three months, see how their metrics are relatively changing (or not changing). Also dont forget about post-advertisement snowball period (may another 2-3 months).
3. Compare impacts and ROIs - now you gonna have somewhat "scientific" results.

While running all those experiments, it'd make sense to use promo urls for non-internet marketing channels, e.g. domain.com/nameofradio - this way you can promote your website with certain landing page and track visits to it.

P.S. Of course, three months is short period of time to see good results. Extend it to 6-12 months if it's possible Also, if you do it on 4 different clients, there is gonna larger margin of error. So, in perfect world you'd do it on the same client

Hope this helps and good luck

Hello, my friend.

Very interesting! I'd like to hear more about what you accomplished so far and results, so, if you don't mind, can you private message me or make a oublic article/case study or something.

Now, concerning the question. No, I never done anything like that. I have an idea though:

• I'd look into cookie-based solutions. Not sure exactly how to implement, but idea would be to set the cookie for the session, read when it gets expired, therefore deleted, upon that event open new active tab.

P.S. The solution I would use for myself (only if that survey popping at the END of session is SUPER important) - write your own exit intent algorithm. The problem with all existing exit intent popup providers is that they all are not personalized. If you define exit intent based on your specific website, after research on exit behavior on your specific website, you should be able to come up with pretty accurate prediction of exit intent event.

Hello, my friend.

It looks like those pages was not blanks at the time, it looks like these are session based shopping cart pages. Meaning that while you are on the website and add something to your shopping cart, you get that url with identificator of what exactly you have in your cart. After you leave the page, that id page either being saved (then it shouldn't be blank now) or get deleted if you make a purchase.

So, check how your functionality works, most likely there is some type of bug. If there are no any bugs and all those page supposed to exist and be blank (weird...), just canonicalize them all to domain.com/cart.

Not putting canonical on NOFOLLOW pages makes all sense in the world, because if page has NOFOLLOW, then bots WILL NOT FOLLOW ANY links on it, including canonical link.

**P.S. **If your question has been answered, please mark it as answered to prevent trashing the forum

Hello, my friend.

If we put a ROBOTS rel=NOINDEX on all pages of the subdomains and leave the canonical (to the corresponding page of the company site) in place on each of those pages, will link juice flow to the canonical version?

Yes, link juice will flow, no problem. And agent page won't be indexed, correct. make sure to remove whatever blocking from robots.txt though.

Another thought I had was to place the NOIndex tag only on the category pages (the ones that seem to change every day) and leave it off the product (property detail pages, pages that rarely ever change).

The answer to this question depends on if you want those category pages rank? if not whatsoever - go ahead and noindex-tag them.

Hello, my friend.

You want everything from everywhere right here and now on a silver platter with a golden rim. Such things don't exist

However, Most of what you ask for is in Google Analytics. The only stuff GA doesn't have is dom related things like load times, waterfalls etc. For that part I use webpagetest.org. The have API, as well as GA does, so, you can combine them into one.

Oh, I see

I'm confused a little

If you are going to be using only one domain, you don't have to use hreflang whatsoever.

If you do decide to kepp both, then you don't have to use hreflag or rewrite rules either, just do backlinks to whatever domains you need and that's it.

You can use full keyphrase in page tilte/content/h1 tags and so on without keyword stuffing.

There are lots of good posts and whiteboard fridays about that. Here is one of them: https://moz.com/blog/keyword-targeting-density-and-cannibalization-whiteboard-friday

Yes, I have been talking about click to call correlation of 90%, not time on a page to call Sorry for a confusion.

"B" option is way to go.

Just optimize and use those terms in natural way, don't keyword stuff and you will be fine.

1. We use click metric to track calls from mobile devices for all our clients. It's decent metric (not good, not bad), simply because if I clicked on phone number, it doesn't necessarily mean that i gonna call it - it might have been a mistake, or i just changed my mind. So, It's a metric to get overall idea how many people are at least interested. From experience, those numbers (clicks to actual calls correlation) are pretty close - about 90%. The only other options there is (as far as I know), is call tracking, but that's what you are doing already and trying to stop doing

2. I don't see any reason why it would be bad from Search Engines point of view. The only negative part i see is extra action from user (which you already mentioned) and that crawlers wouldn't be able to see those phone numbers if you do showing through javascript.

Hello, my friend.

I have noticed the same thing happening to our website and our clients' websites. As you said, we see lots of bad/spammy links to our competitors and they rank high (not always higher though). Well, I asked this question here: https://moz.com/community/q/spammy-backlinks-are-working

After reading all that + just using common sense +  a bit of hope for intelligence of Google updates, I just didn't have enough guts to risk the rankings we achieved so far and reputation of the domain.

So, as it's said in responses in that discussion, if you're willing to see your website get messed up in case everything goes south, you're more than welcome. Just write a case study/research after that for curious minds like me

Well, let me rephrase my answer then

No, there are no exact matching software like Google Analytics. But here you go:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+analytics+alternatives

Internal links from the page to the same page? 0.o

Common sense tells me that there is no any common sense behind that Again, internal links are for informational structuring mostly! Dont be that "one guy" from this video of Matt Cutts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ybpXU0ckKQ

So, to sum up: Google doesn't pay much "ranking" attention to internal links, it uses them to get structure of the website + a little bit for deeper understanding what page is about, not how to rank it. It's bad UX also. So, no, there is no any SEO value.

If you have some data to prove me wrong - I'll gladly change my mind

My suggestion stays the same - "either combine two domains in one, or use two and do double work on SEO and backlinks"

If you do decide to combine them, i'd use .com

Hi there.

The benefit of any anchor text is to "tell" search engine bots what that page is exactly about. So, if you have link with "cats" as anchor text, linking to page about persian super white and fluffy cats - there is no much benefit, because Google can understand what pages are about in general without any help from anchor texts. However, if you use "persian super white and fluffy cats" as an anchor text, linking to that page, this is where the difference comes in. Even though google understands that that page is about cats, you might help search engine bots to understand the specifics of that page.

Just do go overboard! Anchor keyword stuffing is as bad (or even worst) as page keyword stuffing.

here is a whiteboard friday on this subject: https://moz.com/blog/all-about-anchor-text-whiteboard-friday

Hi there.

I'm not aware of any tools like that. It's pretty specific requirements you ask for.

Actually, there is one "tool" . It's called Google Analytics API

Hi there.

My suggestion would be to go to google structured data testing tool and check your page. If Google says it's all good, it is all good

From my experience - I hate wordpress automatic markup. It gives many mistakes and has a lot of extra unuseful info. I usually delete all automatically added schema and add my own where it's supposed to go. It's pretty easy if you've worked with WP code and schema coding before.

Cheers!

- I am not too interested in looking at the UX side for now

Bad-bad-bad-bad idea

- I feel the .com is not ranking as well on google.co.uk because google favours .co.uk offer .com.it will still be ONE website.

Ok, .com is not gonna be favourable to local google domains, because it's "international" as Kate said. And still, the juice is not gonna be redirected from a link, just if you 301 it for en-gb locale. As I was saying before, link is "tied" to whatever domain it's linking, unless it has hreflang.

So, my suggestion is still the same: either combine two domains in one, or use two and do double work on SEO and backlinks.