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Thanks Martijn,

I'm looking at http://www.dbi.io/uk/how-to-segment-logged-in-users-using-google-analytics/ at the moment, I'll probably be able to set that variable when a certain pageview gets triggered.

Last week I got a great answer here on how to implement GTM and cross domain tracking, now that we have that in place I'm looking for some more advice

I'm wondering that if we push variabels into the data-layer of GTM, can we actually use those variables in reports as well? Do they get recorded in Google Analytics?

I'd like to use some data that we push to the data layer for segmentation purposes. Anybody an idea how to achieve this?

Hey Tom,

feel free to reach out with any question you might have about the Brazilian site.

I'd love to share some of the insights we gathered the past couple of years when we entered that market.

No compensation needed

Hi Thomas,

thanks again. I've setup a test here with some domains I have and all worked perfectly after following the tutorial from Lunametrics.

Re your answer above, I agree that it's a good way to keep all your content under one TLD but there are some cases in which this strategy doesn't work that good. We're active in Brazil for example, and we noticed an increased conversion rate for our TLD .com.br compared to the .com/pt where we were sending traffic before.

Thanks Thomas,

some really good resources there. That should help me set it up!

What has the hreflang configuration to do with cross domain tracking?

Anybody experience with setting up Google Tag Manager to contain the Analytics script including cross domain tracking?

We have a marketingwebsite .com / .com.br and an application running in a subdomain, but have always had some difficulties in getting the cross domain tracking working.

Would be great to be able to exchange some experience with fellow Mozzers.

Hi there,

Got a question on cross domain tracking:

We have a couple of TLD's to serve localized content to our visitors, next to our main .com TLD where our app is running as well in a subdomain. Situation is this:

Local sites:
marketingsite.be
marketingsite.com.br
marketingsite.fr

Main site: marketingsite.com
app.marketingsite.com

Conversion gets triggered when somebody ends up in app.marketingsite.com/firstuse for example. People can sign up at the local site filling in their email but they end up in app.marketingsite.com/firstuse

Reading this article on cross domain tracking I'm getting a bit confused on the setup of the tracking code itself. The sample code provided shows these two lines:

  ga('require', 'linker');
  ga('linker:autoLink', ['maindomain.com','targetdomain.com']);

Now the question 

Is it correct when I think that maindomain should be replaced with our local TLD's on every one of those, and that targetdomain is where the conversion happens? In this case the .com site?

Already some good angles from Patrick,

I would go for the redirect as Patrick mentioned above, but there's one particular situation in which I would keep both sites, and that's if you're using another proposition for your products/services.

Let's say you sell sunscreen, and one is completely focused on sunscreen to protect the skin of your children, while the other one focuses on sunscreen to have a nice tan. Maybe a stupid example but I hope you know what I mean.

There are many situations in which people are looking for other stuff (or use other keywords/search terms) but at the end just need the same solution (in this case Sun Screen).

Pro of using both sites: you can get more targeted traffic and really focus the proposition on those people.

Con: you have 2 websites which you need to market, which can cost you more time (and money).

Thanks for the well documented answer. Didn't go through all the resources mentioned yet, but I know what I'm doing tonight I think

Totally agree with Andy.

Make sure your XML sitemaps don't contain any errors, and if something like this happens you should closely watch your organic traffic as well. If there's a big drop in your organic traffic you can start worrying

There are numerous "Ultimate Guides" to linkbuilding, outreach, etc., and they are all written to teach you the art of linkbuilding.

The only thing these guides don't tell you is that following them takes a massive amount of time and doesn't guarantee to get good links at all.

We're all in online marketing, and maybe we online marketeers are familiar with linking to other websites, posts that we like, etc. and maybe that's why we can write these guides but in other niches it really doesn't work that way

I'm wondering what techniques/tactics/strategies you guys are using in less straightforward niches to get quality links to your blogposts.

To give you an idea, we launched an article a couple of weeks ago targeting a very competitive keyword. The article got shared over 100 times on LinkedIn/Twitter/etc. and already ranking pretty good, but REAL backlinks are still missing. How to get people to link to that article?

We do our best

Those Belgians with their languages... says another Belgian.

I would go for subfolders as well, and keep the original domain name as it already has built some credibility in search engines.

I had to do the same stuff with a lot of sites when I moved from cheap *ss hosting to a hosting provider located here in Belgium with all of my client sites and this is what I did:

• Add the domain to your new hosting provider and set up a hosting account for this domain. The site won't be live under this domain name, but contact your hosting provider to  check where you can access the site and FTP with a temporary link.
• install WP, theme & plugins- export content on the live site using the Wordpress export, if possible export theme settings as well
• import the content on the new wordpress install you did on the new hosting provider
• change domain name settings. You can change the nameservers, but if that's not an option you can always add an A-record to make sure traffic is going to new server.

I'm aware that it's time consuming, but you don't have to get your hands dirty on PHPMyAdmin and this way the sites had zero downtime.

Thanks Tim,

found out that the domain is registered by a partner of us. They have several webpages where their clients can signup for our service using a single sign on. This is causing the spike in referral traffic, but as it's only a certain call their doing they must  not be included in our stats so need to set up some GA filters.

Cheers,
Joris

Hi all,

a few of my sites are suffering from referral spam. I read a couple of articles here on how to exclude them from your traffic using htaccess but today I was going through some referral stats of the company I work for and I noticed a lot of referral traffic coming from

prod2.ssosecure.com

I didn't find any article telling me this is spam, so it could also be an intranet of one of our clients where they are sending their employees to our application.

Anybody a clue what this could be?

Thanks a lot!

Hi all,

I'm targetting a keyword and we used to rank quite good for it. Last couple of months traffic of that keyword (and variations) is going down a bit.

I wrote an extensive new post on the same topic, much more in dept and from 600 to 1800 words covering the same topic.

Is it better to update the old article and mention that it's updated recently, or publish a new post and redirect the old post to the new post?

Thanks,

I already added the URL parameters in GWT but it's the duplicate content that is appearing in my MOZ reports because of those tags.

No way to exclude them of MOZ? Imagine you have a page that and a lot of tagged links pointing towards that page, it's gonna list all those tagged links in the duplicate content report.

Crawl diagnostics shows a lot of pages with duplicate content, but when I check the details, I see that it lists the same page but the url contains a campaign tag, so it's not really another page that is serving identical content...

Is there a way to remove these pages out of the Crawl Diagnostics?

I think you shouldn't look at Reddit as being a source for building links directly from them.

Take a look at Reddit's purpose. It's to discover/digest your daily dose of content, and if you publish your link to Reddit people will or will not read your content.

It's those readers that will discover your content and if it's worth it, they will mention/share/link to it, and that's what's your after!

When you re-post, do you keep the original post in place or redirect it to the new post?

Hi there,

we've been blogging for a while now. Some of our content ranks quit well, other posts don't seem to be ranking at all.

The weird thing (I think it's weird...) is that we recently published a post and focussed on a phrase that competes with over 400 million indexed pages, and after 3 weeks we're on page 3, and for other posts with only 2.5 million indexed pages we rank past page 5 (ok, this post is already 1,5 year old, does this matter?).

To give you some background info, we moved our blog in January in a new subdomain, and redirected the old url's, but didn't actively promote the old posts.

• Would promoting the old articles through social media help us boost the rankings for these articles (the articles are "best practices", "how-to's", ...).

• Where / how do you promote your content after you published it on your blog? I find it hard posting in LinkedIn groups related to finance while I have the "online marketing manager" title on my profile. Why would a finance professional read an article shared by a marketing dude?

• As LinkedIn's API doensn't allow to post into groups anymore, do you actually go through all your relevant groups every time you publish a new blog to share the article?

Gianluca already provided me with a lot of good info in another question which covered the same topic. Thanks for the info

Thanks Gianluca,

so if I'm correct the English page would include

etc.

and add the same code to the /fr page and /pt page. Does it matter in what order they are placed (English hreflang at the top for English page, French hreflang at the top on the French page)?

Hi,

our website has 7 languages, but only one English version (site.com/en).

When I add a hreflang tag below, is it enough to just target English search queries no matter where they come from by using only the language code, or should I specify all countries (UK, USA, Ireland, Australia, NZ, ...) by using separate hreflangs?

Same for Portuguese, Dutch & French... Should I just add the language tags or specify all countries? Like I said, we don't have localized versions for those countries, with specific content targeting those countries.

We're having a similar situation on our site, but  I'm a bit confused with the info I found here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

It's multilingual (7 languages) which are set up like this:

site.com/en
site.com/es
site.com/pt
etc.

I know I should add the hreflang tag on each page AND add the href with link to corresponding page in the other languages, but is it enough to just use hreflang="en" or should I also add en-us & en-uk to the english pages? Same for the pt version. Should I just add hreflang="pt" or specify Portugal and Brazil?