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Robot causing high bounce rate (Who is Gomez Advisors)

by Jeff Baer
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In the last 90 days my traffic has tripled for my Chicago based LOCAL business website. After evaluating my analytics, one service provider (Gomez Advisors-not in Chicago, out of state) has accounted for over 65% of the visits. Their visits average 0 seconds and bounce rate is 100%. This has doubled my bounce rate from 35% to over 70%, and I can only assume hurting me in SEO. I called Gomez and they said they were performing a competitive analysis of my website (100+ visits per day??). I asked them for whom and they refused to respond. Gomez's website has an impressive list of clients (including facebook & Google). Is there a warrior who can explain to me what is going on and what I should do? Thanks.
#advisors #bounce #bounce rate #causing #gomez #gomez advisors #google #high #rate #robot
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
    Banned
    You could try blocking the site referrer with .htaccess code.
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    • Profile picture of the author raviv
      You can disallow this particular bot using your robots.txt file

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      Raviv
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      • Profile picture of the author Jeff Baer
        Thank you @yukon and @raviv for the suggestions. Do you have any idea why someone would do this? what do they stand to gain?
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  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    They sell the data.
    It has no effect on your SEO.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeff Baer
      Thank you, but how could having a higher bounce rate be good for me?They take me from 35% to over 70%
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      • Profile picture of the author raviv
        Hi Mickya
        Just block them as they are of no advantage to you. Google does look at time spent on site and bounce rate. They do not admit it openly. But these factors are factored in. So having a 70% bounce rate is not useful to you in the long run
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        Raviv
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  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    Where are you getting your statistics from?
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