Help, Something puzzling is happening with my Google Analytics

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by splitstack, Apr 3, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hi there,

    I was wondering if anyone has come across the same problem as me and have found out why it was happening.

    I have an Analytics account setup and haven't looked at it for a while, I am doing some work on a website and the analytics is telling me that people are looking at a page seemore.htm

    That page isn't on the website though, this is what's confusing me . . . is it possible for that page to have existed in the past and when people find the page through a link the 404 page still registers on analytics?

    Dunno, thought someone would be able to shed some light on this for me

    :confused::confused::confused:
     
    splitstack, Apr 3, 2009 IP
  2. primeelite

    primeelite Peon

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    It may not be seemore.htm as a direct one such as name.com/seemore.htm. It may be name.com/page/seemore.htm. I would check the website and check the server to see if such a page exists as some scripts may have a page that is renamed or showing up as that. I have never had the problem on any of my websites and I have worked on 30-40 websites over the past few years with analytic.
     
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  3. splitstack

    splitstack Guest

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    oops, thankyou v much, I tested a website in a subfolder months ago and when I put the site up on it's own domain I never deleted it from there, so it's been getting traffic from google and I've only just noticed, thankyou very much.

    Is the best way to proceed a 301 redirect now?
     
    splitstack, Apr 3, 2009 IP