Kyle do you mean a couple months ago as in February or so? I dont think the placement has changed since then eh?

As far as I can tell the tracker is placed properly..I think the diff is AW gives false counts for images loads as multiple page loads.

Thanks for the considered response Charles; good point about focusing on actual traffic increase vs. getting wrapped up in total accuracy.

Hey Moz Community,

I am looking to get opinions on the best practice for analytics/traffic analysis. From experience I know that AW Stats reads high and Google Analytics reads low for traffic for reason in this article http://www.smartz.com/blog/2009/01/23/analytic-confusion-%E2%80%93-awstats-vs-google-analytics/

It drives me a little nuts how far off both are for some pages.  I have one article that shows 100 views (GA) and AW stats shows 5 times that number of views.

Any suggestions or systems you recommend? Thanks

Thanks Keith, i did not realize citations counted all the way down to the "space" level. Some citations auto generate.

I use Wistia...its great.

The XML site map points the video to one page...other instances of the video would not be duplicate content. Sometimes you want to allow others to embed your video for say a how to video.

House Painting Videos on this home page are embeds but are xml site mapped on their own pages.

Here is a video House Paint color  tool that I may want to allow other sites to embed.

Good luck

Gil...great answer I learn something everyday.

This may answer your question..

Duplicate content primarily refers to unique texts  (articles). The primary way Google indexes video is by video XML sitemap...the XML sitemap entry tells google what the video is about. The XML sitemap points the video to one specific page.

Example: Wood stain video resides on a deep page and is indexed by google to that page. But the same wood stain video is embedded on the main landing page for this painting contractor site.

re: transcript..I would change the text or at minimum add additional text to the transcript so that each page has unique text.

Many quality websites have deep pages that outrank their homepage. This is actually a natural organic pattern.

In general most homepages can be classified as director pages with clear navigation to content...it is these content pages that are usually linked to.

Himansu is right just block from via .htaccess file

This brings us a bigger issue not often discussed. Since anyone can link or redirect to your site, this creates a dilemma for  search engines.

For example lets say I buy a porn site and decide to create links from that porn site to Portlandhaircuts.com, with malicious  intention for that site.