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Have you considered asking your employers if they would mind you using one of the additional campaigns for your own site, that is they do not use all the campaigns themselves. Or do multiple people access the Moz account?

I think this depends on your budgets, if you have the money then like hemblem5 said, companies like Distilled are a possible place to look into, however if you are running on a shoe string or have the ability to do it internally, I would suggest performing the out reach yourself, after all you know your own market better than many companies on the oustside who may claim they can get you lots of "great authority" links.

By Performing the out reach and link building yourself you will be able to regulate the speed at which you build up your new links (slow and steady) and also with additional research have better insight into the kind of relevant good quality content sites you wish to approach and be associated with.

Thats my thoughts anyway, hope they help!

Tim

PR sites are a bit less used compared to a few years back as I believe Google made some algorithm changes based around PR sites. (correct me if I am wrong on this) so tread carefully with where you choose to place any PR.

As for linking on PR articles Google I believe treats any links back to your site as advertising, so although it is good to link to your site for brand awareness, this is all it should be used for. Place a rel="nofollow" on any links back to your site to enable you to use this PR as advertised article. Google thinks it should kind of be a paid for link.

Hope this helps.

Hey all,

I have GTM set up on a site and I am trying to enable the Ecommerce tracking functionality.

My problem is this, I have access to the basket variables all they way through the checkout funnel to the payment page, but they are then lost on the payment completed page. Does anyone know how I can pass the value of the basket across to the payment completed page so I can mark the transaction completed with an actual value present. I cannot post hidden input fields or change the url get variables as the third party system that us used fails.

I have thought maybe javascript calls, but not managed to get to work as yet. Can the Google session pass and hold them in the cookies that are set?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Tim

Agree with Alick3000, broad match modified keywords would be far more attractive, and as per link values, nothing would be driven by this process.

Using broad match allows you to match a series of keywords to any longtail phrase. Providing the +keywords you use are present, then your advert/adverts will potentially appear.

As per +summer +dresses - from Alick300 - this would match both of your longtail ideas and more.

e.g.

Top 10 highest rated summer dresses Popular dresses for the summer weather.
Where can I buy spring/summer ladies dresses blue summer dresses size 10 dresses with a summer print
etc

As you can see it gives you a much wider target whilst still being specific to your needs.

I hope this helps.

Tim

I too have been having this for a while now... I tweeted Moz about it a couple of weeks back... personally I don't mind I'd be happy to be aboard

For me, go for more links on relevant football related sites / fan forums / US sports colleges, places where your products will likely be seen and have genuine interest in rather than directories, as per Oleg also maybe have an alternative en-us site.

If you are truly looking to broaden your horizons and eventually have a presence in the US, I would suggest developing a series of useful export partnerships with key members in the US who can advocate for your products and link to your site, then once you have a foothold, maybe look to introduce shippers and use them as the address for local us services.

If and only if this takes off, it may be time to have a US base/office for committing to the US market.

I too agree with the others, SpyFu can give you some great insights to spend as will SEMRush. But if you want to be in depth you will be on a paid for subscription.

Cheers Tom, this does look like what I am after - will feedback if I get it going

I am sure I read somewhere, although quite some time ago that having your domain name in the title is a good thing and at the end of the title tag is best. Based on your above comments I do feel that you are following the correct format and structure. Just remember to try and get your pages main search terms in the title that are relevant to the page.

You mention that on a lot of the other pages you are planning to use "Buy and sell paintings | Maleribasen.dk", Although a good title I would only use this once, possibly on your home page. Using the same title tag on muiltiple pages is a negative factor in my book. I would advise you to make each and every title tag unique and relevant to that individual page.

If you Articles page is made up on paginated pages also add rel="next" / "previous" to help with structure.

Hope that helps. I am sure others can also add more?

Tim

I think Amelia's comment could hit the nail on the head... and I have to agree after taking a look at your twitter account. It is a tad repetitive. It might be worth hand picking the best and most valuable articles to tweet about rather than everything.

Have you considered performing a survey to see what people would like to hear about?

Absolutely as seoman10 stated, you may get a few links back, however if there are a few dodgy links now would be a good time to look into having them either redirected or elect for them to considered a 404 and request that the urls be removed from the index.

If some of the 404s have a relevant page on the new site, consider redirect  the old link via 301 to a similar new page.

redirect 301 /oldpagelink /newpagelink

Providing your Analytics script or TAG manager is still using the same code then the tracking should remain in place and always be available. A drop would indicate as per Gaston's response that the code was inaccurately implemented or missing.

Did they change the analytics whilst in development, was it missing when going live?

A good way to check your analytics tag is implemented correctly would be to run the following plugin for chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tag-assistant-by-google/kejbdjndbnbjgmefkgdddjlbokphdefk

I've personally not heard of them myself, but their site looks like a legitimate business. They probably have been doing some metacrawling of search engines which send searches to the major search engines to determine a sites rankings which they are collating or maybe even creating there own index data like moz.

As it is a free to paid service it is probably a way to get people on board, e.g. you have been digging into your analytics referrals a bit more and now might try their service.

I have also done a quick search and there appears to be a few blog/reviews of the service. Maybe give it a try!

Here is a review from back in Sept 2014.

Absolutely!!!!!

If you think about it logically, what does a CMS do. It uses templates and stores content  which is then output to the page - this webpage is HTML and is the basis of pretty much all webpages. Just because a site is HARD coded in HTML without the use of a CMS that compiles  it for you does not mean it cannot be optimised.

If you ever look into the source code of a page output via CMS to the browser, you can see all the components usually utilised to give your a strong well optimised site, however if HARD coded you can probably go even further depending on your skillset to provide even more optimisation on a more bespoke level.

Don;t delay get stuck in

I tend to agree.

I too do not like it when you see the same copy, over and over again. Although on the other hand I do feel that reposting some content still does have its benefits providing it is done sparingly and not in a repetitive fashion (normally months apart). I try to consider any new followers and sometimes, providing the content is useful, may try and highlight a particularly important or time relevant article again.

Flooding people with the same content all the time will lead to a healthy number of lost followers and potential influencers leaving your social channels.

As per Eric, it has indeed been turned off. To be fair I had not used it for a while due to it being unmaintained and I wasnt that sure if it was accurate anymore..

Other solutions that I have used for authority signals are developed by MOZ. I would suggest installing the MOZ toolbar extension and also take a look over the opensiteexplorer. You can get some information you want from there like Page Authority and Domain authority. plus spam score and more.

I have been an avid fan of Buffer which has a LinkedIn connection for automating and scheduling posts to the platform. One of the best things about Buffer when first starting out with automating your social posts is that is free.

You can connect multiple accounts too - FB, Twitter, Instagram, FB Pages, Pinterest, G+ and more.

For me if the other site has very few quality /relevant backlinks that will help and you are not planning on using the domain for brand purposes then there is very little need to link it up. I would instead look to concentrate on improving your own pages with the best content you can muster.

Having an exact match domain that is not being used as the primary sites URL will not likely add any value. I believe EMD don't really hold any value like they once did and it is more about the content, although some may disagree.

As it is a .co.uk however, you could still buy it to hold on to for the sake of a few pounds and possibly use it for a campaign URL used in adwords or on printed flyers.

Have you considered leaving the product page in place for people still searching for the item.

Providing you clearly state it is no longer for sale, you could have some similar product cross sells. That way you still have a bite at the apple when customer land looking for these products from search engines. This could be beneficial especially if it was a popular product.