Facebook Like button issue
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In looking through my top pages in Google Analytics, my #2 page (oddly enough) looked like this "/?fb_xd_fragment=". Apparently, this is because we added the Facebook Like button to many of our pages. But I'm worried these show very skewed PageView data and lower Time Spent on each page. The average time on this page is 5 seconds whereas the average sitewide time is much higher.
Further, it shows 9,000 pageviews coming from only 250 Unique Visitors. I'm sure this is messing with our SEO. Is there a fix for this? Should I even be worried about it?
I heard that I can remove it from my GA stat reporting, but I don't want it to be causing problems in the background. Please advise..my boss wants to keep the Facebook Like button the pages as it has brought us some good response.
The page that this is on is: www.accupos.com
Maybe there's an alternate version of the Facebook Like that we don't know about...
I would appreciate any help on this
DM
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It looks like you've changed this to the regular Facebook like button?
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I had this problem too. Try visiting one of these urls. What I found was that the ones with the Facebook fragment in the url would end up giving a blank page to the reader. So the reader kept refreshing and this is why the page views went up. I tried to find a solution including editing htaccess but couldn't. The answer for me was to remove the Facebook fan page widget from these pages.
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Try to use the original Facebook Like button - it uses javascript - this way it won't index any urls - you can generate it here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
You will only have to change the data-href attribute value for each page to provide its own url.
I hope this helps.
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Page views are a waste of time. Focus on what is driving conversions.
Swap out ShareThis for AddThis and see if there are changes. I use Addthis and have no problems in GA
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I think you should not worry about it as long as you don't have any warning messages in Google Webmaster's panel and you play on a good side.
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