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        • uwaim2012
          uwaim2012 last edited by

          I have a site that provides online education and as such, most of the user activity happens behind a login. This has me thinking about potential SEO impacts with a few questions that maybe someone could lend some light on:

          1. How important is activity (above just search activity) to the search engines

          2. Would it help to enter these pages, even though they're behind a login, into GA as we have with the front-end of the site

          3. Does a subdomain make a difference (right now we implement the course as a subdomain of the main site

          4. Lastly, as I was looking at compete.com, I am wondering how they get these use statistics?

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          • evolvingSEO
            evolvingSEO last edited by

            1. Google does not use GA data for rankings. They only use data they have access to "outside" of your analytics, such as possibly;

            • Click through rate
            • bounce rate/time on site
            • +1's
            • "Block this site" (sometimes it shows up in the SERPs when you return)
            • Google Toolbar activity like bookmarking

            2. So following from question 1, it would not help for SEO to do this. It might help you however in gaining some more insight as to how logged in users use your site.

            3. Its thought sub-domains do not pass much link juice across sub-domains, but for a subdomain to be on a private part of the site, this may not matter quite so much. If you've always done it that way, it may be better to just keep it the same. In these cases I always do what makes the most sense to the user. Eliminate confusion. Have a short but description word for the subdomain.

            4. Compete's official documentation is here - and Rand did an interview with them back in 2008 here

            Hope that all helps!!

            -Dan

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            • goodlegaladvice
              goodlegaladvice last edited by

              Activity is important but google does not use GA to determine the activity more than likely your CTR off of google and social activity.

              I think compete is just a best guess....

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