Google Analytics Title tag vs landing page visitors numbers
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Hi folks,
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why im getting different results in Google analytics.
I'm using the Content Efficiency Analysis Report from http://www.kaushik.net which is absolutely awesome.
When I search via my title tag I get 920 Unique Visitors over the month but when I search via the landing page URL with the same title tag I get 28.
Any ideas to why their should be such a difference.
I've also noticed that on that page i'm also getting a Rel Cononical TRUE using a site crawl.
Any ideas are much appreciated
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Do you have parameters in your URL? Trailing slashes? some with .php and some without .php? If there are multiple URLs (either via parameters or completely different pages) with the same title tag it would account for this.
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Does anybody else have any input it turns out the title tag visitors was the accurate one and the URL was very wrong.
There seems to be a lot of unanswered questions on these forums at the moment.
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I have never trusted G.A not just the metrics, but the fact google can use it to rank your site based on the data you are willingly sending them. Google is well known to never reveal it's cards so half the time even when we think we know what's going on, we only know the half of it.
G.A has the ability to help your site, but also to squash it.
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