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Another cause which is specially common in display networks -not too much in adwords- is that some of the pages which are serving your ads are showing your site with popunder scripts. This allows the site to create the affiliation cookie without the user noticing it. In your case, if it is based only in 17 visits can only be the natural reason: people are not interested in your content for that keyword and leave too soon, as Ryan says.

I thought they took the affiliate site down a couple of years ago. I signed up and a week later it was removed with a redesign coming soon.

Thanks Dirk!

I thought so! Thanks, Patrick, have a good weekend.

Hi Whittie, Just to confirm: by "the website itself is on a 303", do you mean that the URLs you're using in Google AdWords 303 redirect to the rest of your site? If so, that can definitely be the issue. Google AdWords tracks with URL parameters, so if those aren't being transferred to the URL that Google Analytics is tracking, things won't track correctly. Like Louis said, if this is the issue, you'll probably have other issues in GA. Is all of your traffic showing up as direct? Best, Kristina

Okay so if you have one root domain you can only have one robots.txt file. The reason I asked for an example is in the case there was something you could put in the robots.txt to differentiate the two. For example if you have thisdomain.com and thatdomain.com However if "thatdomain.com" uses a folder called shop ("thatdomain.com/shop") than you could prefix all your robots.txt file entries with /shop provided that "thisdomain.com" doesn't use the folder shop, Then all the /shop entries would only be applicable to "thatdomain.com". Does this make sense? Don

That's about as comprehensive an answer as I could have hoped for. Thanks Ryan, really appreciated.

Donna - good advice. I think that's the way to go. Thanks very much for the help!

Jeff - I am referring to destination URL only. Thanks Linda - Good find, I will give it a try. FYI - It's a one page site, we're trying to break up where possible. Thanks.

Hi Alex! Thanks for reaching out! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Moz Help team! Sorry to hear you're having trouble with your Custom Reports! I want to respect your privacy, so can you email help@moz.com and let us know which campaign/report is giving your grief? We'll look into things further from there! You're totally right about the missing campaign stats! We're planning to give that section of the app a facelift, which is why it looks a little empty for the time being. I hope that helps, and I look forward to seeing your email! Cheers, Erin

Thanks very much for your feedback! It helps a lot.

If you added in mobile advertising then that could have definitely given it an uplift, but making changes sometimes inspires a new assortment of changes. How are you doing so far this month? Are you seeing the same issues? Have you dropped your CPM & Daily budget?

Great thanks for that donford. I've noticed a well ranked competitor is using 302 redirects to do what i'm after. Would this benefit me at all?

Hi, I've found a solution, however thought i'd share. Within the .htaccess file, i've added # 301 permanent redirect all .html to non .html RewriteCond%{THE_REQUEST} \.html RewriteRule^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L] Thanks

Thanks for your answer on this, I think this will be the right road to go down. Alex

Thank you for your responses. Just to update you all to say after the rankings dip, they're more or less back to where they were, fingers crossed the rise continues. Regards