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Google Analytics Data Showing zero Avg. Time

by nikhilbhuktar
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So, I have started a new blog in health niche. I have published some good quality content on it. For 2 months the visits have been ranging from 0 to 3 per day. However yesterday there was sudden spike in visits with 28 visits in single day. When I checked out the data, I found that the traffic was from Canada and USA. I was really excited until I saw the average time spent was zero, which turned me off.
So is that all bot traffic or it is genuine one. If it is genuine then does google takes time to update average time metric?
#analytics #avg #data #google #showing #time
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    You were visited by bots.


    Originally Posted by nikhilbhuktar View Post

    So, I have started a new blog in health niche. I have published some good quality content on it. For 2 months the visits have been ranging from 0 to 3 per day. However yesterday there was sudden spike in visits with 28 visits in single day. When I checked out the data, I found that the traffic was from Canada and USA. I was really excited until I saw the average time spent was zero, which turned me off.
    So is that all bot traffic or it is genuine one. If it is genuine then does google takes time to update average time metric?
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
    If you have cPanel > AWstats you can see your website statistics. You can even block bots..3 Steps To Find And Block Bad Bots
    https://searchengineland.com/3-steps...ad-bots-228762
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  • Profile picture of the author Mario Kralj
    When you will publish your new post next time, share your post on Medium.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by Mario Kralj View Post

      When you will publish your new post next time, share your post on Medium.
      Why?

      And wtf does that have to do with their question?
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  • Profile picture of the author kebumen
    For sudden traffics, from Google analytics can detected, where your traffics come from? Some type of traffics devide into organics, referral, direct, or through by ads traffics. Please make sure, which one type of your traffics visit your site. If your traffics come from organics traffics, its good, and congratulation to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaxFeerden
    There are many blogs where you can post your articles for free. Take advantage of this opportunity. This will significantly increase your traffic not by bots, but by real users. But it already depends on how high-quality, interesting and unique your content is.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Prestipino
    It's most likely a bot. Make sure you're filtering out known bots in GA (just a checkbox in the admin area) and then set up a seperate view and filter out the traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author vishwa
    There are two reasons behind this. It might be bot traffic or you are not creating quality content. You have to reserach on it. You can also look at the traffic sources of your blog to analyze the traffic.
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