Caffeine may be spreading in Data Centers

Discussion in 'Google' started by Barre Tire, Aug 25, 2009.

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    I am not sure if anyone else has noticed this but with my tracking systems I have noticed alot of pageviews showing up as direct hits rather tehn coming from any search term from a search engine. I thought this was very odd as direct hits have increased by close to 500% for no apparent reason. When reading this post http://blog.360i.com/search-marketing/6-expect-google-decaf-caffeine-boost I may have found the answer to my question.

    Here is the excerpt I am talking about

    "Great post Mike and Martha. Thanks for the review of Caffeine. I would like to add one thing to this that I noticed, the new SERPs are rendered in AJAX. This may cause 3rd party analytics tracking issues similar to what was seen when it was tested a few months back. All the data from Google will look like it came from a referral rather than a search engine and will not contain keyword data."

    Has anyone else noticed this. I have definately increased in traffic with this happening.
     
    Barre Tire, Aug 25, 2009 IP