Comments on: Proving The Value Of SEO When Botnets Corrupt Your Analytics http://www.slicksurface.com/blog/2008-05/proving-the-value-of-seo-when-botnets-corrupt-your-analytics Observations about technology, design, and search engine optimization by the staff of Slicksurface LLC - a design and technology company located in New York. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:04:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jay Harper http://www.slicksurface.com/blog/2008-05/proving-the-value-of-seo-when-botnets-corrupt-your-analytics#comment-60 Jay Harper Fri, 23 May 2008 19:48:07 +0000 http://www.slicksurface.com/blog/?p=153#comment-60 Gab - Bots will sometimes make up fake search terms and come in via what looks like organic search. If you've never done well for a term then it's probably bot traffic. HOWEVER... In Google Analytics the "source" is the first referrer, as a result, you can see current traffic on terms that you used to rank for, or <a href="http://www.slicksurface.com/blog/2007-08/google-analytics-reporting-visits-from-sites-that-no-longer-exist" rel="nofollow">referrals from sites that no longer exist</a>. You'll see the traffic until the person resets their cookies... Gab - Bots will sometimes make up fake search terms and come in via what looks like organic search. If you’ve never done well for a term then it’s probably bot traffic. HOWEVER… In Google Analytics the “source” is the first referrer, as a result, you can see current traffic on terms that you used to rank for, or referrals from sites that no longer exist. You’ll see the traffic until the person resets their cookies…

]]> By: Gab Goldenberg http://www.slicksurface.com/blog/2008-05/proving-the-value-of-seo-when-botnets-corrupt-your-analytics#comment-59 Gab Goldenberg Fri, 23 May 2008 17:52:42 +0000 http://www.slicksurface.com/blog/?p=153#comment-59 Can you expand on this: "[If you’re getting traffic off the keyword ‘art’, but don’t rank for ‘art’, then you know you have a bot problem.]" I've seen traffic to my site on the keyword 'ppc management' yet I know I don't rank for it... Can you expand on this: “[If you’re getting traffic off the keyword ‘art’, but don’t rank for ‘art’, then you know you have a bot problem.]”

I’ve seen traffic to my site on the keyword ‘ppc management’ yet I know I don’t rank for it…

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