Page Views Plummeted
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Since using SEOMoz to diagnose and address issues with my site www.esecaucus.com, my page views have plummeted while my number of visits and unique visitors has remained intact.
Does this mean that previously the amount of page views were artificially inflated by some kind of technical error in the site?
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Is it possible that you had the Google Analytics JavaScript code loading on those redirect pages before they actually redirected? Then you would have had inflated pageviews, since you'd get a count for the first URL and a count for the second.
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The only code change made was having the right sidebar added to post pages, though I can't see how that would impact the pageviews.
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There are many possibilities for inflated page-views like an iframe or ajax calls. Check to see if you had any code changes during this time.
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I'm using Google Analytics and the primary issues I address were too many redirects and too many pages with the same title tag.
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Hi Carl,
What issues have you addressed since using SEOmoz? And what web analytics program are you using?
Kristina
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