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: Is an 85% bounce rate measured by Google Analytics a red flag? I am trying to understand the bounce rate concept in Google analytics.I have a blog focused on technical stuff (Java, Spring etc.)
I am trying to understand the bounce rate concept in Google analytics.I have a blog focused on technical stuff (Java, Spring etc.) and getting a decent amount of traffic (just 6-7-month-old blog).
I have noticed high bounce rate in the GA dashboard (close to 85%), here are my thoughts on this and need help to understand it in more clear way
High bounce rate is happening on the organic traffic as people land on a very specific page and seems to exist from that page.
Since this is a technical blog and focused on specific problems, is it expected behavior that people land on a specific page and 85% exist from the same page.
Should I consider such a high bounce rate as a red flag?
: Does using POST vs GET for AJAX affect whether or not Google sees the loaded content? I have a site that shows some content of its pages using AJAX with a POST method. Google is supposed
I have a site that shows some content of its pages using AJAX with a POST method.
Google is supposed crawls AJAX content for these pages, but when
I try to make "Fetch as Google" on Google webmaster tools or to see the cached version of my pages on Google, the page shows without the AJAX content.
Does it make any difference for Ajax method to be POST or GET?
Is there any special treatment I have to do to get Google to crawl the AJAX content as it doesn't show now in the cached version and in Fetch As Google?
: My two admob accounts get terminated because of invalid activity, can I create a 3rd admob account and to link with that playstore account? Last month my Admob account get terminated because
Last month my Admob account get terminated because of invalid activity and then I create new admob account which also got terminated because of invalid activity.
When I checked how my app was violating admob ads policy, it was because I had placed ADMOB BANNER very close to screen data. When a user clicked on the screen content then that banner would possible been clicked.
Now I have created another admob account and I have also fixed my app screen BANNER issue.
Will Google also terminate my this new account?
: Will Google index and assign keyword value to content in closed accordion sections? I currently have an accordion with my content in on my pages. I know Google is starting to crawl websites
I currently have an accordion with my content in on my pages. I know Google is starting to crawl websites in mobile and hidden content shouldn't be an issue at the moment but I'm mixing it up a little and wondering if Google will still read the content and give it SEO value e.g.
Top Accordion - Open
Rest of Accordion - Collapsed
Should all the accordion be open for now?
: What is the solution for "Submitted URL not selected as canonical" in Google Search Console beta? Google's new webmaster tools has a section 'Index coverage'>'Excluded'>'Submitted URL not selected
Google's new webmaster tools has a section 'Index coverage'>'Excluded'>'Submitted URL not selected as canonical'. I am getting 3 internal links in the section "Submitted URL not selected as canonical" of my website.
am not sure why these internal links are showing up there. I had updated canonical tags for these 3 links. (I am not sharing links cause may be my account marked as spam)
Google's help page has some information about it, but doesn't say how to fix it:
Submitted URL not selected as canonical: The URL is one of a set of duplicate URLs without an explicitly marked canonical page. You explicitly asked this URL to be indexed, but because it is a duplicate, and Google thinks that another URL is a better candidate for canonical, Google did not index this URL. Instead, we indexed the canonical that we selected. The difference between this status and "Google chose different canonical than user" is that, in this case, you explicitly requested indexing.
: In IIS 7.5, how do you redirect an HTTPS domain to the canonical domain? So I have a site configured with example.com:80 and www.example.com:80, as well as a certificate for port 443. When
So I have a site configured with example.com:80 and example.com:80, as well as a certificate for port 443.
When a user goes to the example.com:80 or 443, which has the SSL certificate configured correctly (the certificate is specifically for example.com, not example.com), everything is fine.
Additionally, if a user browses to domain.com:80, my application is able to redirect to example.com:443.
However, if the user types in "https://example.com", they force the load of the site, and the domain doesn't match the certificate. I'm not sure why URL Rewrite doesn't redirect in this case, since I put in "https://example.com" and it shows the correct test result.
Is there some other trick or method to get the redirect to work, or is it "impossible" because you cannot redirect across domains with the HTTPS protocol?
: Migrating (image) CDN subdomain from HTTP to HTTPS I am migrating one of my sites from HTTP to HTTPS. It is totally clear how to do things for my main www.myexampledomain.com, however I'm not
I am migrating one of my sites from HTTP to HTTPS. It is totally clear how to do things for my main myexampledomain.com, however I'm not sure some little details about migrating cdn.myexampledomain.com.
So what is the best way (from Google/SEO point of view) to 301 redirect my old http CDN links to the new https?
My first idea is to simply set it in the Amazon Cloudfront admin to force http to https. This way when Googlebot visits an old http link it will be redirected to the new one. While the previous version is for the already indexed links, I would also change the CDN links on the site to https.
After I did the 301 redirect, do I need anything else regarding to my CDN domain? Will Googlebot reindex the CDN links when detects the protocol change or it will be informed when I resubmit a sitemap for the main domain and indexes it again?
Can be an issue if the SSL cert of the main and cdn domain is different?
: Re: When changing page URLs, how do I include both old and new URLs together in the XML sitemap? I have changed the URL of some important pages within my website. In order to maintain backward
Having two URLs for same webpage is not a good practice. You must have shared the old URL somewhere on the internet, may be on social media, emails, comments and so on...
So when someone tries to access that URL, that is navigates through that URL they will see a error 404 page which is not a good sign in terms of SEO.
So if you want to utilize the full potential of the internet you better redirect the old URL to the new one. If you are a WordPress user, there are plug-ins for this.
Just install, activate redirect the old URL to the new one.
Benefits of doing this are
You get the link juice from the old URL from wherever the old link exists.
You can keep the traffic intact, even if you have to change the URL for quality or any purpose for that matter.
You are creating two separate channels through which you will be bringing in the web traffic. However this is logical correct, but both link will mean the same once the old URL is pointing to the new one.
Even in case of backlinks you can redirect users to new pages by this method.
: Re: How to handle sitemap with large amount of dynamic urls We are currently building sitemap for our website, and it is clear for me that we need to create a sitemap with ALL urls for each
You should only add urls to your sitemap if they actually exist and you have the page on your site with those urls.
: .htaccess permanent redirection with condition I want to redirect ONLY users from website1 pages to website2 homepage. The google bot and other crawlers must indexing and do not know about redirection.
I want to redirect ONLY users from website1 pages to website2 homepage. The google bot and other crawlers must indexing and do not know about redirection. Can you help me?
I know how to place the permanent redirect, but how to add a condition to be only for users?
Edited:
I want to redirect the whole website to another one with .htaccess. The redirect must be valid only for visitors without web crawlers and bots. I want the Googlebot and other crawlers to continue indexing and viewing the old website without being redirected.
For example, if I put:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^www.website1.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^website1.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ website2.com/ [R=301,NC,L]
In the .htaccess file, all visitors from website1 will be redirected to website2 homepage. Robots and search engines will continue to index without being redirected to website2?
: Google search console shows an extremely high number of URLs? My Wordpress Website has maximum 1,392 Posts, 67 Page, 33 Comments. While checking google search console it showing that Total Google
My Wordpress Website has maximum 1,392 Posts, 67 Page, 33 Comments. While checking google search console it showing that Total Google indexed status 262,356, while search by (site:domain name) operator showing 2,64000 results but only 24 pages showing others not showing.
So i want to know that -
index status huge, it's not possible. How can i remove the indexed link and know the link status?
: There is a copy of my web site running and indexed in Google, what should I do? I have just discovered that Google has indexed a copy of my site. Is there anyone who has experienced something
I have just discovered that Google has indexed a copy of my site.
Is there anyone who has experienced something similar? What do I do?
: How can I find which URLs were recently de-indexed in Google Web Master Tools/Search Console? When checking the Index Status for my site in Google Webmaster Tools/Search Console, I saw that the
When checking the Index Status for my site in Google Webmaster Tools/Search Console, I saw that the total indexed URLs in the previous day was 670. However today it is 655 (I can see this in the graph). So 15 URLs were de-indexed.
How can I find which URLs were de-indexed?
: Re: “Invented” URL parameters This is a question on the best action to take when Google is indexing pages that don't really exist. I have a pretty simple pagination system on a set of news
You must be running a script of some sorts that is generating data based on the page number given to it. The sad truth is that whoever designed the script did not take errors into serious consideration.
The script must be edited so that if the page number specified exceeds the actual total number of pages you made for your site (13?) then the output ideally needs to be an HTTP error 404 indicating a page is not found, but since Google already tried to index such fictional pages, then the HTTP error code needs to be changed to error 410 to tell Google that the page is not found and to stop scanning for that specific page.
If you have basic programming experience, then you will be able to correct this issue yourself. Otherwise, you will need to contact the developers of the script you're using of their problem and then you should get a new script that replaces the one you have that will work correctly with your website task.
I wouldn't recommend a redirect (301 or 302) for the fictional pages because no value is being offered and it also slows down the server as a result from search robots scanning the fictional page numbers as well as the new URLs they are redirected to, however if you believe a guest may be trying to access a fictional number, then you may want to include on the error page a link to a valid page.
: About Adsense Reactivation I have full approved Adsense. Then, I cancel it because I want to switch to business type. After that, business type seems not suitable for me. Once again I cancel
I have full approved Adsense. Then, I cancel it because I want to switch to business type. After that, business type seems not suitable for me. Once again I cancel my Adsense and reactivate my previous Adsense. Is am I violating Adsense policies?
: Google Anaytics 'Average time on page' has skyrocketed We have an online newsletter platform which consists of multiple interactive 'pages'. Readers read the newsletter through a web browser, and
We have an online newsletter platform which consists of multiple interactive 'pages'.
Readers read the newsletter through a web browser, and Google Analytics is installed in the viewer as our analytics backend.
The viewer is a single page app (SPA) and transitions between newsletter pages are done by Javascript.
We use the 'Average time on page' metric in Google Analytics to give our publishers an idea of how long their newsletter is being read for. It was typically around the 4 - 6 minute mark, which would be correct for the audience our publishers push their newsletters out to.
We then introduced per-page stats, where publishers can get an idea of how many 'views' each of the pages in their newsletter is getting. We use Google Analytics event tracking for this.
We set the event category to Page, event action to view, and the event label to the page ID from the database. Every time a reader clicks through to a page, it sends an event to Google Analytics. Then when the publisher wants to get their stats, our app queries Google Analytics to get the total number of Page views for each page ID.
The problem we have is after we introduced this event tracking, our average time on page has skyrocketed across all newsletters. It's gone from about 4 - 6 minutes to upwards of 1 hour.
I'm not really sure where to start fixing this issue, so I'm hoping someone will have some ideas.
Thanks
: Handling requests for deprecated RSS feeds The site I run still gets pinged frequently by RSS readers and services, even though we deprecated support for those feeds over two years ago. The
The site I run still gets pinged frequently by RSS readers and services, even though we deprecated support for those feeds over two years ago. The URLs currently return a 404.
Are there any good conventions for letting clients know that the feed is gone for good and that they should stop hitting us?
I'm considering redirecting to a single-entry RSS feed with a post explaining that our organization no longer supports RSS. Good idea? Bad idea?
: How do you do 301 redirects when you've changed platforms? A client is having problems with 301 redirects producing 404 Error messages. They previously had a WP site, but decided to change it
A client is having problems with 301 redirects producing 404 Error messages. They previously had a WP site, but decided to change it to an HTML one. They are using the same domain name, and hosting is with the same webhost - with a change from WP hosting to a VPS. The redirects in the .htaccess file are in this format:
Redirect 301 /double-glazing-information/double-glazing-resources example.com/how-double-glazing-works.html
The WP account has been deleted, together with the WP site files, so the pages no longer exist. We simply want to catch any bookmarking or linking to the old pages, and redirect them to the relevant page on the HTML site.
Typing example.com/double-glazing-information/double-glazing-resources (the old WP page) into my browser produces the 404 Error:
The requested URL /double-glazing-information/double-glazing-resources was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
What are we doing wrong?
Further info:
Both the old site and new site are/were with the same host (Dreanhost). We were advised that we had to shut down the old WP account, before the same domain could be included in the VPS account. So we closed the account, and deleted the files.
However, we DO have a Backup Buddy copy of the old WP site.
The .htaccess file reads like this. Only the first 6 or so pages are listed here due to a posting limitation of 8 links. My email is envirofriendly(at)gmail(dot)com if anyone wants the full .htaccess contents, or further discussion.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Redirect 301 /about ecohomesolutions/melbourne-home-show-double-glazing-showcase
Redirect 301 /about/double-glazing-showroom ecohomesolutions/melbourne-double-glazing-showroom
Redirect 301 /about/double-glazing-certifications ecohomesolutions/double-glazing-certifications
Redirect 301 /about/double-glazing-warranty-10-years ecohomesolutions.com.au
Redirect 301 /about/terms-conditions ecohomesolutions.com.au
: Re: Is there a perfect time at which to attempt to put google ads on your site I have been waiting for my new online shop to reach above 150 unique visitors per day before I try to apply for
From what I heard from some of my friends that it is kinda hard to get approved by Adsense these days. I think you should concentrate on your content for now and apply when you have as Stephen mentioned 50 pages. I think you should also wait until you get some decent number of visitors. The type of content also plays a big part on getting approved by Adsense. And even after that you dont get approved by Adsense then there are other ways to monetize like Affiliates and paid promotions.
I got my adsense approved with one page with nothing but a search box on it and with zero content, btw that was 10-12 years ago cant exactly remember.
: Re: Someone is duplicating/reproducing my site what can I do? Someone has created an exact copy of my site. At first, the code of his pages were identical to mine. A few days later he just
If the content is similar then it can hurt your seo. But people copy other websites all the time to be honest atleast the design. As a freelance web developer I have worked with many clients who wanted to clone some famous website.
This may come handy support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en
Then report a DMCA on google
: Website hosted on www domain but blog hosted on non-www domain. Does this hurt the website in terms of SEO? We have a company website that uses the www version using 301 redirects for all
We have a company website that uses the www version using 301 redirects for all non-www versions but our blog which is a WordPress site is on the non-www version.
i.e, all our main pages are www.example.com http://www.example.com/about-us ,etc.
except for the blog which is at example.com/blog
From an SEO perspective does this hurt rankings?
: How to prevent Google Maps from using an image of my webpage? I own a site with static content, from which Google Maps took images to show them when searching for the physical address of
I own a site with static content, from which Google Maps took images to show them when searching for the physical address of the company associated to that web page.
How can I prevent Google Maps from showing these images?
: Re: How can affiliate sales be tracked across a users various devices? Someone, with who I will have an affiliate link partnership, has put a link to my e-shop: http://www.example.com/?source=userA.
There's no way of knowing if someone using device B actually first found your website on device A. This is the fatal flaw of affiliate marketing, and the networks really have little incentive to do anything about it.... which they probably can't anyway.
I find it incredible that your are an honest web merchant who wants to honestly reward his affiliates. Wow, wonders never cease!! The trouble is that most merchants (and for that matter affiliate platforms) are only too happy to "lose" the contact with the "first click" or prime mover of an internet sale. In such cases either no affiliate commission is paid (great from the merchant's point of view) , or else the commission goes to the affiliate network (great from the network's point of view) as they "don't know" which affiliate to reward, so keep the full commission for themselves instead of splitting it with an affiliate.
The trouble is that this dilemma is in most cases insoluble unless the purchaser already accomplishes the first stage of a sale on the first visit, and then returns via a ticket number. Otherwise, except with some synced devices, there's no way of knowing if someone using device B actually first found your website on device A.
: Re: What are the making money option available if the Adsense, Affiliate Marketing not working because of country culture? I have a Sinhala(Main language of Sri lankan) technology blog with around
I'm afraid I'm not to knowledgable about your particular country and what networks are allowed or indeed publish in a particular language. But to name a few which are normally quite flexible :
chitika.com/ www.bidvertiser.com/ advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/bing-partners/sign-up https://www.buysellads.com/ ?
Have you tried direct advertising and reaching out to local companies that have a relation with your topic ? A banner ad or two would probably achieve your desired monthly goal with little to know effort. Direct adverts are often much more lucrative if you have an audience which is receptive to localised advertising.
There are plenty of ways to monetise a site you may just need to get creative with what's available to you. 9000 unique visitors isn't too shabby and I see no reason to shut down, how are your competitors monetising ?
: Re: Is it cloaking to use e.preventdefault on the link to the second page to make users register before continuing? We have a very voluminous site. We want to index around 50,000 pages. We want
I think with more research that is considered like "First Click free", this is a "white cloaking" for Google. As long as the user from Google can read the content he ask for (when he click in the link from google), this is ok !
Source Google : First Click Free
: How to add a few non-related pages without affecting SEO? I have a technology related forum. All posts are technology related articles. Currently there was a user request for adding a few online
I have a technology related forum. All posts are technology related articles. Currently there was a user request for adding a few online games to the site, and there was a huge amount of upvotes for that post. That means users would like for that...
So I thought to add a few open source online games for this. All those pages will be non-related to the current content.
How can I add those non-related pages without negatively affecting my entire site's SEO?
: Is "site:" returning pages that would not otherwise be returned? Today I attempted a search on one of my websites as I thought I had a page about this or that and used the following in my
Today I attempted a search on one of my websites as I thought I had a page about this or that and used the following in my search:
site:m2osw.com upload
I started looking through the results and could not find the very page I was looking for, but noticed that one of my website, we'll say "blah.m2osw.com", appeared in the results!
This was a big surprise to me because that site has had the correct canonical URL for a long time and it points to a different domain. Something like this:
<link rel="canonical"
type="text/html"
title="Home Page"
href="https://exdox.com"/>
I was thinking that whenever you had a canonical it would tell Google to go look over there, but now I have a doubt and am thinking that maybe these canonical do not work cross domain? I thought I read somewhere that was the best way to have a test site anywhere I wanted and point the test site to the real site so Google indexes the real site and not the test site...
Do you know whether that canonical looks correct from blah.m2osw.com or whether I would have to add something else (i.e. the robots = NOINDEX for example...)
: How do I block India from visiting my site? I want to avoid large scale content theft and plagiarism which mainly comes from India as they have no laws preventing Indians from stealing content.
I want to avoid large scale content theft and plagiarism which mainly comes from India as they have no laws preventing Indians from stealing content.
Is this possible via .htaccess or some other method? Or can I simply remove my domain from showing in Google's search results in India?
I just don't see any point in serving my hard earned work in India when a large percentage of content theft I experience comes from this country.
: Re: My Server is returning a 404 instead of 403 when access if forbidden - is it good or bad? via .htaccess, I forbid access to folders that have no index page inside (domain.com/images for example),
It looks like you probably setup the forbidden error document with 404 instead of 403. But unless you were to show us your .htaccess setup, it will be difficult for us to help you.
In regard to returning 404 instead of 403, I do that a lot. That's a way to not give away the fact that certain pages or directories exist. Say I have a "secret" path that only administrators can access, no one needs a 403 because no one except a very few people who can administrate the site and they probably need to log in before they can access that area of the site.
In your case, though, it may be less of a good idea. But the truth is that /images if not forbidden. It is just that you do not have a default index.html so returning 404 is probably better because a path such as /images/eiffel-tower.jpg would also be forbidden if the root directory is forbidden (at least with my logic.)
: Re: How can I alias a subdomain to an external site using DNS? I have a site hosted on Linode. I use Linode's DNS (with Apache) for things like mail, blog.mysite.com-type subdomains, etc. I want
I would use an A record in the DNS.
Say you have site linode.com at 10.0.0.1 and site strikingly.com at 10.0.0.3, the DNS entry would be something like that for www:
A 10.0.0.1
www A 10.0.0.3
Then on that server (10.0.0.3) you need to accept the mysite.com name in Apache. If that's the default website, then you're set. If that's just one of the websites, but not the default, make sure to have an entry such as:
<VirtualHost>
# Handle mysite.com ServerName mysite.com ...
</VirtualHost>
With a CNAME, it will work too if you have a domain with the correct IP address. So say you define a sub domain strikingly.mysite.com and set that to the strikingly IP address:
strikingly A 10.0.0.3
www CNAME strikingly
The good thing with using a CNAME is that if the IP changes, you can change it in one location and all the other references get changed automatically. It's like having a DNS variable...
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