I've been looking around for a while now and have yet to find an answer. Does anybody have any insight as to why, when i'm checking numbers, my 'homepage' displays as:
"/index.php,index/,index,index-,/index.php"
on a single line in GA?
I've seen the same on a few other pages:
/customer_account-exec/index.php,index/,index,index-,/index.php
Is this possibly a URL rewrite issue?
Google Analytics records whatever the URL of the page is. To clean up the multiple versions of a URL (specially the home page), you have to make a number of changes in your Profile Settings.
You can follow this detailed tutorial for cleaning up your URLs in Google Analytics.
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My website got hacked. After that I have cleaned my whole code and db. When I search website with my keyword on google the result shows as hacked page. Link shows right but meta info and google cached page is not right.
Use webmaster tools and submit a request to Google to review this again. You will have to make sure that the website is indeed clean. There is a good guide on how to clean the site here - https://docs.joomla.org/Security_Checklist/You_have_been_hacked_or_defaced
I have a strange situation: I have a Wordpress site which includes an area to paste analytics code. I've done so. However, we're getting messages from google saying there is a tracking code mismatch. After calling Google we viewed the page source of the site and the SECOND analytics code is indeed there. It's preventing the REAL analytics code from firing. I just want to remove it.
However, there is only one place to put the tracking code in my site and that's where I've put the valid tracking code. I use Dreamweaver for my FTP stuff and have done a site-wide search for this extra analytics code and NOTHING shows up.
I've checked header.php, footer.php, index.php separately. The only thing I see is PHP code saying place analytics code here (i.e. from the theme options).
Where the hell is this second script and how can I find and delete it? Thanks for any help. I'm pulling my hair out about this.
Is the second/invalid analytics code appearing right above or below the first? Or is it in an entirely different area in the source code?
It may be a bug with the Wordpress theme you're using, or you might have a plugin enabled that has some predefined settings for inserting Analytics code. It might even be a widget. You could try disabling your theme/plugins to troubleshoot.
Temporary solution would be to remove the code from the Wordpress backend and add it into header.php or footer.php manually.
Sometimes I see on Google links with my terms searched on Google as parameter. For example, if I search "StrangeWord", I can see in results:
example.com/p=StrangeWord
I'm pretty sure it is generated automatically, how to do it? I'm using PHP with Nginx.
It isn't generated automatically. If that page is in the index, it's because there was a crawlable link to that page - whether intentionally done by the webmaster or not - and Google happened to crawl that link.
Links can get generated by users sharing such a page, bookmarking it, or even linking to it from their own sites / social profiles
I am planning an informational site on php with mysql.
I have read about google sitemap and webmaster tools.
What i did not understand is will google be able to index dynamic pages of my site using any of these tools.
For example if i have URLs like www.domain.com/articles.php?articleid=103
Obviously this page will be having same title and same meta information always but the content will change according to articleid. So how google will come to know about the article on the page to display in search.
Is there some way that i can get google rankings for these pages
A URL is a URL, Google doesn't give up when it sees a question mark in one (although excessive parameters may get ignored, but you only have one). All you need is a link to a page.
You could alternatively make the url SEO friendly with mod_rewrite www.domain.com/articles/103
RewriteRule ^articles/(.*)$ articles.php?articleid=$1 [L]
I do suggest you give each individual page relevant meta tags no more then 80 chars and dont place the article content within a table tag as googles placement algorithm is strict, random non related links will also do harm to the rank.
You have to link to the page for Google to notice it. And the more links you have the higher up in Google's result list your page will get. A smart thing to do is to find a page where you can link to all of your pages. This way Google will find them and give them a higher ranking than if you only link to them once.
If I search the word in Google is "twitter".
Google displays the first result like the below.
Twitter
Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.
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Twitter_logo_header Twitter Status
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How can they display Search, blog, Twitter_logo_header, etc.?
These links are called Site Links, and point to highly rated pages on your domain.
Usually these links are created automatically if your site is strong enough for a specific keyword, and you can tweak it a little by blocking pages you don't want to appear there from Google Webmaster Tools (http://google.com/webmasters) under 'Site Configuration', 'Sitelinks'.
More information on this topic available at the following Google help page - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334&hl=en
This page explains how search engines like Google work:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/search-engine.htm
It's something google decides to do on its own. There is no way you can force them to do it with your site. They will do it if they find it appropriate.