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Re:AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6 by petercooper on Friday June 27, 2008 @12:10PM (#229856)
One wonders if there's an "advantage" you could gain from this.. If your site is getting requested by AVG but NOT a valid browser, you can assume someone did a search that you appeared on but they did NOT click on you. This metric could be useful for improving your CTR in regular search results, something totally impossible to measure before.
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Re:AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6 by spydez on Friday June 27, 2008 @08:09PM (#230361)
The problem being you've no idea why they did not click on you - only that they did. Thus, you can know something's wrong, but not why.

And how are you going to improve if you don't know what's wrong?

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Re:AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6 by petercooper on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:00AM (#231772)
In SEO that's a pretty common problem.
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