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Just discovered many people click on Contact Us - what to do?

by Kikos
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Hi, I just saw in my analytics that lots of people click on "Contact Us". I use Wordpress platform and have a simple theme with menu on top.

My issue is I may be losing a lot of Adsense income if people go to contact page and probably leave from there and I don't even understand why up to 10% of people want to go there. None of them sent a mail because I didn't get any email.

I initially created Contact Us, About Us, Privacy Policy, etc because many threads said Google requires those pages to be present.

Maybe if I change it to Contact Form less people would click it?
Or what would you advice?

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author chukcha
    Perhaps they are looking for company details or want to find out your location.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    Temporarily remove the 'contact us' link from menu but not the actual page and check the analytics report after a week or two.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Move the Contact & Privacy links from the Header to the Footer, should get less clicks.

    Most traffic will focus above the fold & not even pay attention to the footer.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      You don't need a contact page or about us. Quite useless.

      If you insist upon having them, turn them into
      content pages, stick a search box there, or something else.

      You can have adsense on those pages. Google does not like
      adsense on pages that are blank except for adsense.

      "Content" comes in many forms.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author Barry Unruh
    You may also be seeing traffic from programs designed to harvest email addresses from Contact Pages and not real human traffic at all.

    Originally Posted by Kikos View Post

    Hi, I just saw in my analytics that lots of people click on "Contact Us". I use Wordpress platform and have a simple theme with menu on top.

    My issue is I may be losing a lot of Adsense income if people go to contact page and probably leave from there and I don't even understand why up to 10% of people want to go there. None of them sent a mail because I didn't get any email.

    I initially created Contact Us, About Us, Privacy Policy, etc because many threads said Google requires those pages to be present.

    Maybe if I change it to Contact Form less people would click it?
    Or what would you advice?

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Take advantage of it. Set up a mailing list, for example. But if you'd prefer less people clicking it, move it to your footer area.
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