not sure if the best place for this, but yesterday on my google analytics page i noticed something odd. I had searched with google for an obscure keyword phrase for my site to see if a certain page had been indexed yet. I searched for something like this: "bizarre avatars" playstation 3 a very specific and unusual search string with quotes and an additional pharase outsite quotes, but the same day google analytics showed that i had 5 visits (at 5 page views each) with the exact same search string. Any ideas what this is all about, anything sinister?
probably a good guess, but can bots see what i'm searching on google and follow it back to my site? gotta love spock
i've received 5 more visits (with 3 pages per visit) from the wierd keyphrase search today too, and the only user it seems to match is ME! but i only searched it once, and didn't even click on it...so why would google analytics register 5 visits yesterday and 5 today from my ip.
ok, so i emailed google adwords and they replies with a stock answer saying that google search and adwords are separate entities and not in any way related. but its not true...after looking at my analytic data from adwords every few days it will take a search phrase or word that I searched and count my views of my own site as organic traffic for that search phrase instead of a direct access like it should count it as. not critical but throws off my statistics and is anoying.
no thats cool, i don't think anyone can help besides google and not much of a problem to jump through the hoops to get google to correct it.