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Roman,

Awesome! Glad to hear you tackled the issue!

Let us know if we can be of any further assistance!

Trenton

Hello Jim,

I understand that comparing these two data sets can be rather frustrating, especially when you're trying to do quick comparisons across multiple data sets.

Unfortunately, there is no way to retroactively filter this data within the Google Analytics reports. But you can create a filter to handle this issue moving forward. 
To do this, go to the specific view that you wish to change this data in, select the 'Filters' option and then select 'Create new Filter'. Then after naming it as you please, choose 'Custom' as your Filter Type and then select the 'Search and Replace' radial option. Under the Filter Field drop-down, select 'Request URI' and in your Search String enter '.php$' and leave the Replace String section empty. (This is a regular expression; therefore, the beginning \ escapes the '.' variable & the '$' defines that this should only happen when the string ends in '.php')
Then at the bottom of the page you should see an option to verify this filter. Do so and ensure the change being made makes your desired effect. Be sure to check that no anomalies are created through this process.

Now that you have created a filter to handle this issue moving forward, the best way to handle this is to manually export the data and sort the URLs by alphabetical order, unless you are fluent in using the Google Analytics API. Then you could use the API to pull this data into Google Sheets & have it automatically clean up the data, but I would not recommend this solution if you haven't previously used the Analytics API.

While I know this is not an ideal solution, this should handle the issue moving forward.

Let me know if you have any further questions!

Regards,
Trenton

Hello Roman,

This is an interesting issue. I'm going to need a little more information before I can fully answer this question.

Are you using any plugin for SEO on your WordPress site? Such as Yoast SEO?
When you go to the actual page of the site & view the source, do you see the title & meta description elements in the code?
Is this a problem on every page of the site, or just specific set of pages?
Are you blocking Bing's crawlers in your robots.txt file?

Feel free to link the specific page here (if you feel comfortable doing so) so that I may look into this further!

Thanks!
Trenton

Hey Darren,

While I guess you could say that this is a personal preference, it is not without reason for using this specific tracking manner.

The main advantage here is that you'll be tracking form completions, not when someone begins to fill out the form, so it's a more accurate means of tracking. Another advantage is that you'll handle both Google Analytics & Google AdWords tracking in one fell swoop. While you still need to 'import' the conversions to AdWords, there is no need to use the AdWords specific tracking code. Once Google Analytics & Google AdWords are linked, you'll simply just select that specific goal and then import it.

What the raventools link is saying is to put that bit of code in the actual code on the webpage(s) of your site, specifically in the submission section of the code. That way when the 'submit' button of the form is pressed, the code will execute triggering the event in your Google Analytics.

Let me know if you need any further clarification or help here!

Regards,
Trenton

Hey Darren,

I'm assuming you want to track form completions as Adwords conversions here? I have a way for you to not have to use AdWord's conversion code that is relatively simple, but before we get to that I think the site may be having an issue that might be the reason for you not being able to verify the conversions as of yet.

When I went to http://www.gtwstorage.co.uk/ on both Android, Chrome, & Edge I wasn't able to get any of the forms to properly load. So I think there's a very real chance that this could be a reason for you to not be able to verify the conversion pixel.

Assuming that gets fixed, the best way to track form completions in AdWords as conversions is to implement event tracking in Google Analytics on all form submissions, then create a goal based on that specific event happening, and finally import this goal to AdWords (assuming the AdWords and Google Analytics profiles have already been linked).

If you need help with any of this:

• Here is the Google documentation on linking AdWords & Analytics
• Here is a link to a great tool from Raventools that makes Event creation easy to add to forms
• Here is Google's documentation on creating goals within Google Analytics, including event goals
• Here's some more information from Google about what events are & how they function
• Finally, here's how to import goals from Google Analytics to Google AdWords

While this is a good bit of reading, I promise you that it's worth your time. If you have any further questions on this feel free to respond in this thread and I'll help you through it!

Regards,
Trenton

Hey Emeka,

Short Answer:

You're correct. Effectively what Google is saying here is that they don't have enough statistical confidence to definitely tell you that the variation is outperforming the original at a 95% confidence level, but they do at a 93.8% confidence level.
Quick Note: 95% is the lowest setting in GA Experiments.

Long Answer:

The math behind this statistical significance calculation is:

Full credit to vwo.com for their A/B Testing Significance Calculator & doing all the work here.

Link to Image One - This is simply the data of the Control vs Variation & the Conversion Rate & Standard Error Rates

• Conversion Rate is: Conversions/Sessions.
• Standard Error is: √(Conversion Rate*(1-Conversion Rate)/Visitors)

Link to Image Two - Confidence Levels, Z-score, & P-value
To find if something is truly significant at a specific confidence level, we need to calculate the Z-score then use that value to find the P-value and from there we can determine the confidence level.

• Z-score is: (Control Conversion Rate-Variation Conversion Rate)/√((Control Standard Error^2)+(Variation Standard Error^2))
• For the P-value, we need to calculate the normal distribution of the z-score with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1. The easiest way to do this is to use an online tool, here's a link to your specific example.

Finally, we take the Confidence % expressed as a decimal (i.e. 0.90, 0.95, 0.99) and 1 minus these values (i.e. 0.1, 0.05, 0.01)
If the P-value is greater than the Confidence % or less than 1 minus the Confidence %, then it is significant, otherwise it is not. Let me explain that using our example:
at 95% confidence, our P-value needs to be <0.05 or >0.95. Since our P-value is .05799, it doesn't fit either of those requirements and such is not significant at that confidence level.

I know that's a lot of math, but this is why Google Experiments is saying that the result is not statistically significant.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions on this!

Trenton

Hello Paul,

Update

Google Analytics Specialist just confirmed to me that my initial response was correct in that you cannot change the default model used for non-Multi-Channel Funnels reports.

Original Response

Thanks for your question. This is unfortunately something that cannot be done. As you mentioned, Last Non-Direct Click is the default model used for non-Multi-Channel Funnels reports. To my knowledge, and based on the Google documentation & their live-support, there is no way to change this. That said, an Analytics specialist is supposed to get back to me in 24 hours and I will update my response with any new information they provide.

While you cannot change the default model, you can narrow down the Model Comparison Tool to the goal or goals you're wanting to dive further into. This combined with changing the primary & secondary dimensions along with using the conversion segments should allow you to find the information you seek, though likely not as efficiently as we'd like.

Sorry for the bad news, but hopefully you can use the Model Comparison Tool as a workaround.

Trenton

Here are some additional resources on how to create your own attribution models.

John,

I'm in agreement with Netzkern on this matter. If those pages currently have little to no value, I'd personally noindex those pages that provide no content. To answer your question, for them to be re-indexed, it would simply just take a new crawl. If you have your XML sitemaps setup correctly, resubmitting these when a page is no longer a 'noindex' should expedite this process.

Even if you do not take the above step, I would caution you not to change the Titles to include that there is no content at that specific location. Keep in mind that title tags serve to tell search engines what content is found on a page & to communicate the same for users when they see your page in a SERP. This would likely tank your CTR on any pages that had no content, which could pose a problem.

Hope this helps!

Trenton

Hello Kirmeliux!

Josh is correct. The redirect is likely causing your issue, especially if you are only seeing the issue on mobile traffic.

One fix would be to create two versions of your ad, one targeting the Desktop Right Column & Desktop News Feed with your desktop URL & another targeting the Mobile News Feed with your mobile URL. GA will still combine these data sets into one campaign assuming those UTM parameters match.
Also, check to make sure you're using Facebook's new URL tags feature at the bottom of the ad creation page to ensure your tagging is correctly appended.

Hope that helps!
Trenton

Hello Alicja,

Andrew is correct. Becoming a Google Trusted Store is intended to, "help customers easily find merchants who offer a superior online shopping experience." It seems that your case & company would not qualify because the actual transaction is not taking place online.

To answer your question, if you were to use a system such as Shopify to allow for online transactions, then you could look to apply. Unfortunately, until that time you'll be unable to be a Google Trusted Store.

Full Eligibility & Restrictions

Hope this helps!
Trenton

Hey SirMax,

AdWords reach numbers have been known to be a little wonky, for another good example of this look no further than Central Park, NY (Zip code 10024, AdWords Criteria ID #9004077) which says the reach is 10MM, but we need to realize that there is much more than just census data factoring into this number. Google also uses:

• Number of accounts used per person
• Number of temporary visitors to a geographic location.
• Length of time each person spends on a website.
• Number of signed-in users.

(Full Documentation)

So using the above + census data is how Google came to the 7,220,000 number.

It's also important to realize & remember that positive location targeting has 3 options:

• People in my targeted location
• People searching for or viewing pages about my location
• People in, searching for, or viewing pages about my targeted location (Default)

Remember these and use them to more accurately target your campaigns.

TL;DR: I wouldn't sweat the size of your 'reach' number. Monitor the campaign, specifically on the Campaign>Settings>Locations>View location reports>Where your users were (user locations). This will give you a feel for whether your targeting settings are where they need to be.

Hope that helps, let me know if you need any additional information on this one.

Trenton

Hello CheapTubes!

There are two independent issues taking place here. Each is contributing to your issue. I'll address each and how to fix each, but it's important to note that these are two separate issues. I'd recommending deciding which to attack first and then address the other after that.

302 Redirects

To specifically answer your question, you're getting the majority of these 302 redirects because you're using absolute linking as opposed to relative linking. Here's a link to an article explaining the difference, but TL;DR: you're defining the exact (or absolute) URL you're trying to link to as opposed to using the URI (relative linking/pathing). For a concrete example, on your homepage you have an image and text (Graphene Oxides) where the a href is: Graphene Oxides 
Since you explicitly (absolute) defined the URL, including the HTTPS, the browser then calls this page on your server. However, the content is actually housed at http://www.cheaptubes.com/product-category/graphene-oxide/ So the server tells the browser, "Hey, that file isn't there... but I'll help you out. It's actually over here" Where here = http version of page. This is exactly where the 302 takes place.

If your goal is to solve the 302 issue, all you have to do is go through and change all of your internal linking architecture to relative calls as I mentioned earlier. To continue our above example, this means changing the a href for this specific element to: Graphene Oxides
As Dmitrii alluded to above/below, you can see this for yourself via the Chrome Inspector (Ctrl+Shift+I on windows; Cmd+Opt+I on Mac).
First, go to your homepage and after opening the inspector, navigate to the 'Network' tab and check the 'Preserve log' option. Then click your 'Graphene Oxides' link and you'll notice the first line that appears in the console will have a 302 Status code. If you click on the 'Name' of this (in our example, it'll be graphene-oxide/) you can dive in further and see that 'Request URL' & the 'Location' are not the same. With the former being https and the latter being http.

If you're still unsure that this is correct, navigate to the 'Elements' tab within the Inspector and right-click the aforementioned 'Graphene Oxides' link on the actual webpage. This will highlight the exact location of the code in the Inspector console. Then right-click the a href call within the Inspector console and select the 'Edit as HTML' option. Change the a href to be Graphene Oxides and then click anywhere else and you'll notice that the element is changed within the Inspector console. Click over to the 'Network' tab again and click the clear button (looks like a circle with a line through it to the left on where the 'Preserve log' option was. Once this has been cleared, click the on-page link again and you'll see that there is no longer a 302.

htaccess Issue

I'm a little less qualified to advise you on this one. However, I can point you in the right direction. While Moz is great and amazing, for these more technical site issues I'd recommend checking out http://stackoverflow.com/. But after doing this, I'd recommend coming back here to make sure that you've got all your ducks in a row for the HTTPS transition. That said, I did some research for you.

I believe Dmitrii is correct again that the https rules should be higher than any other rules. Here's a link to a Stack Overflow article that addresses exactly your issue. And here's an article from SSL Shopper on doing the redirect using Apache's mod_rewrite functionality. 
There's not much to add to what these two articles discuss as they're pretty thorough resources!

I hope that helps! Let me know if you're having issues or have any follow-up questions!

Have a wonderful day!

Trenton

Hello LoonyToons!

Yes, unfortunately there is a one to one relationship between YouTube and Google+ accounts. I have a few tricks that might work; however, I'm not certain that these will work for a business page. I'd recommend looking to see if these options are also available for your pages. Links go to relevant Google documentation.

You can hide a personal Google Profile in the settings menu under the 'Profile' heading. You can also hide a Google Profile by adjusting 'Target Audience' under the settings menu of G+ under the Audience heading. Select Custom under the drop-down menu and change the global setting to No one. The previous link also explains what 'hidden' means.

Google states in their documentation that these setting changes do not change the way in which spiders behave so they will still crawl your content and it can be found in search. These just help to minimize exposure. To my knowledge there is no way to get around this issue.

That being said, if I were fighting for a single YouTube channel here are some questions that I'd want answered:

• Will these YouTube channels have different, unique content?
• Which channel will be the 'Primary' channel that is tied to the 'Primary' Google+ Page?
• Will the channel that is only used for advertising purposes attract subscribers? If not, why not leverage the news subscribers? (I don't think they do, but if they mean AdWords advertising, I'd be curious as to why they want a dedicated channel.)

Obviously I do not know that the details of your exact situation, but I hope this helps out a bit. Try this out and let me know if it works for you! If not, reply to this comment and I'll see if I can help anymore.

Best of luck,

Trenton