Search Engine Terms

  • wcw7

    (@wcw7)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    A few weeks ago, “searches” for individual pages and posts on my site started appearing under my “Search Engine Terms”. They’ll show up in the format “www.mysite.com+title-of-post”. I’ve gotten dozens of these “searches” since then, for dozens of individual pages/posts, and some are even showing up as having multiple views.

    I assume it’s an automated thing, some bot indexing the site? It’s not really affecting anything, other than cluttering up the list of what real people are actually searching for, and artificially inflating my stats.

    Any idea what this might be?

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  • Chris Olbekson

    (@c3mdigital)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Your question is not making sense.

    What do you mean by:

    under my “Search Engine Terms”

    ?

    Are you talking about Google indexing search result pages from your site? This is very common and you if you don’t want them indexed you will need to add no follow no index headers to your search.php template.

    Thread Starter wcw7

    (@wcw7)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    I’m talking about what appears on my dashboard under the header “Search Engine Terms”. Google has been indexing my site for quite some time now, but these “searches” for individual post titles have only started appearing over the past few weeks. No human is typing all of these post titles into a search engine, so I’m just not sure why this apparent automated indexing is showing up as a “search term”.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    There is no “Search Engine Terms” panel in WordPress core. Perhaps this is being added by a plugin – in which case you would need to ask the plugin’s developer this question.

    Thread Starter wcw7

    (@wcw7)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    Ah, sorry, must be a Jetpack thing – it’s not on my dashboard but under Jetpack “site stats”. My mistake.

    Chris Olbekson

    (@c3mdigital)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    The data is from the referrer header when someone visits your site. Say they searched for awesome news coupons and your site came up in Googles results. If the person clicks on your site Jetpack stats will record the search phrase as one of the “Search Engine Terms”. It’s just an analytical thing to let you get a better idea of where your users are coming from.

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