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googlebot visiting my google analytics virtual pageview URLs


For a certain group of pages on my site, I send google analytics a virtual pageview. So, as an example, instead of the page being /username, I track it with google analytics using /profile/username like this:

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/profile/username']);

Works great it seems. Except I'm seeing TONS of the above virtual URLs in my website logs with googlebot as the user-agent! Why is google visiting my virtual URLs? Did I do something wrong above? Is this normal?


Solution

  • It looks like this is a long-running problem, going back to December 2009.

    Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any explanation as to why or how this is happening.