I have been adding content to a site and have been amazed how fast it shows up in Google Search. To see how soon a new post shows up a search for an exact phrase (like "The Puggle might be one of the more popular designer mutts." including quotes) in Google and usually see my post in 15 minutes after publishing. It's probably the result of WordPress and all the plug ins but the thing that bothers me is that I make that exact search and I do not click through but I see traffic in Google Analytics coming from that search phrase and the traffic comes from my city. It seems like Google Analytics sees me in Google Search and then sees me on my site and assumes that I clicked through. Is this a common problem? Is there a solution so those test searches won't be counted as click throughs when they are only view throughs?
Is it possible that you have some page pre-fetching software or maybe Google toolbar does this for you? Just a wild guess but there should be no traffic in analytics unless you actually open the page
I will look into it. I use Firefox with Google Toolbar but I would think Google Analytics would be able to differentiate between a fetch and a click. The request header would be different.
Looks to me like atxsurf is right, and specifically it's an issue with certain versions of Firefox - I saw this in the GA support forum http://www.google.com/support/forum...b0&hl=en&fid=6a177a1f88c8ecb00004814fc5020db2