URL ending with ?cpc=1
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Hi,
In the analytics data (SEO - Landing Sites) on a site I just started working with - 2 different url's show up (when I filter the results):
/example**.asp**
/example**.asp?cpc=1**
The first recieves 2/3 of the visits (among these 2 pages) and the other recieves 1/3 of the visits (among these 2 pages).
The second (/example.asp?cpc=1) is apparently getting the clicks from Adwords, since it isn't indexed by Google..
Can someone explain me:
1) why the cms is producing this kind of double landing page?
- is it possible to avoid it in any way? (it is not the only example on site - so it makes analyzing data more difficult).
Thanks
Christian
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Hi Irving that's a good solution - I agree.
But shouldn't these kind of urls be created manually?
Also - what exactly does ?cpc=1 mean?
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It's a customed made site built in .net/asp
Yes I could use it in Adwords, but I have checked and the URL is not "made" in Adwords. It's the CMS (or the coders behind) that is creating this extra url.
But I still can't figure out why?
(I will of course ask them - but I won't be able to the next couple of weeks)
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yup. that's most likely it.
canonical the page it itself (without the parameter string of course) and go into google webmaster tools parameter handling to deal with the parameter
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Hi Christian,
May I know which CMS are you using ? Can't you use the same URL in adword as well ?
I think the adwords guy might be using it for tracking conversions. I am doing the same things to to track sales from my paid campaigns.
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