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My SERP overlay in Firefox has stopped working, all other features of the Mozbar seem to be working fine, so wondering if I am missing something obvious?

Hi All,

I've been searching the net for this for a while now and haven't found any suitable solutions.

I'm looking at a way of importing conversions into Analytics. For a business I work with there is currently a split between

• Contact Form Submissions (we can track)

• Mobile Website Calls (we can track)

• Offline Calls (visit the website via AdWords and pickup the phone)

We currently record all call data so we can see just how many calls we are getting from the campaign, and we take notes on keywords and time of call. So manually we can figure out the conversion rate.

I was wondering if there was a way to mark certain visits as conversions manually? I'm pretty sure there isn't, but figured this would be the best place to ask!

Thanks in advance!

Hi Mary,

thanks for the response.

We created a new site with new content on the .co.uk at the same time as the disavow. So are you saying its now not safe to use this design/content on the .com?

Im 100% sure there was no on page optimisation penalty, as the old website natural content infact it was hardly optimized at all. They ranked purely on anchor text back links, the level was ridiculous it was around 80% for keyword terms and the rest a mix of generic and branded anchors.

It seems in hindsight the new website design would have been best saved for moving across to the .com, but obviously that is now no longer an option.

**EDIT: Can I also add the .com will be hosted on a totally new IP address **

Hi Guys,

Wanted to get some second opinions. I have a client who worked with someone on their SEO for about 15months, during which time they reaped the benefits of being top of Googles organic rankings for their main keyword. Unfortunately, the link building that was completed was terrible with no care taken for future updates, over optimised anchor text links on totally irrelevant websites.

Contacting webmasters in order for links to be taken down was an impossible task, these websites were pure spam sites which I doubt anyone oversees with any care. So went the disavow route, it caused a slight increase, but the way Google indexes the website and its pages is still all over the place.

We have a good new content marketing plan in place for the next 12 months, and already have some great in depth articles, videos and interactive infographics created, but the problem is my client really needs some quick wins and cannot risk the domain never recovering fully from the issues.

They own the .com version of the .co.uk they have so my thoughts at this point are to move them to the .com, and the new content strategy can be worked on as if its a new project. For the keywords they target there are sites on the 1st and 2nd page with DA of 16-18, so it wont take long with the new content we have to get them back to a level playing field with the competition. The one worry I do have is Google seeing the .co.uk go down, and the .com appear with the same website on and looking down on the "start from scratch" method.... does anyone know of any examples when they have acted on this?

We started an AdWords account (very small spend) and this has been going to the .co.uk, if we start a new one, with same billing info going to the .com could that also cause problems?

So basically, because of my clients situation, and the level the competition is it, moving to the .com seems like the best move, its just whether there is any risk involved. I've never read of there being any, but thought I'd get some opinions before comitting to it.

By the way, I'm only seeing this as a feasible option as they can still keep branded traffic due to buying both domains at the same time.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the response, glad that its agreed that building the brand on its own domain is the way to go! This is how I've always worked, it just gets difficult when a client can see a competitor getting success using a certain method - and having to explain that long term its not wise to follow suit.

It seems to be happening more and more for local terms, hoping a future update can perhaps control this more!

Hi All,

Just wanted to get everyones opinions on this, I see it more and more now where businesses own multiple domains for [keyword] + [location], they have multiple domains for different locations and setup individual sites on them.

I see these types of domains rank very easily for medium competition keywords, as long as the on page is good and there are a handful of back links, they rank.

just to clarify, for example - iphonerepairmanchester.co.uk (purely an example not sure how this site ranks!!)

What are Googles views on this? I've always insisted its better to build a strong brand with the "real" business rather than creating extra websites named by keywords. But I've recently had a client want to pursue this and it seems it currently works, but is there a danger down the line Google will penalise it?

The short term traffic increase is undeniable but like anything in the world of Google at the moment, I'd rather persuade clients not to go this route if it will protect future interests.

My SERP overlay in Firefox has stopped working, all other features of the Mozbar seem to be working fine, so wondering if I am missing something obvious?