GA reporting strange/inaccurate landing pages?

[Schwaab]

Hey,

Google Analytics is reporting visitors landing on pages that I know do not receive visits from organic, paid, or referral sources.  For example, the cart page of my site is the seventh most popular organic landing page on my site.  Also, various log in pages appear to be popping up in my landing pages reports.

I have checked for inconsistencies in the tracking code placed on my site and have not noticed anything abnormal.  The same code that appears on product and category pages appears on the cart and log in pages.

I also understand that if a person does not interact with a page for 30 minutes and then clicks on the cart page this will be recorded as an entrance.  Would this be reported as a entrance from the source that the person originally came to my site from, or a direct return visit?

Has anyone else had a similar issue?  If so, were you ever to find a logical explanation for this or a solution to what could be causing this?

Thanks

[TopFloor]

Have you checked to see if your Cart Page is one your company's site links?  That may cause the higher than normal visits.

[Schwaab]

I've checked and haven't seen anything on my end.  GA is also showing ppc ads landing on the cart page and I know we don't have the cart page set as a destination URL in any campaign.

[SeaAaron]

Hi there, did you ever figure out what was caused the high cart landing page numbers in GA?  We're experiencing a similar issue now.  If you have any insight, we'd greatly appreciate the help!

[Vanessa12]

This post is deleted!

[Vanessa12]

We had the same issue with one of our client's reports so I did a little digging and came across this post from Jaymerica Industries. They have some good info as to why this may be occurring.

http://www.jayratkowski.com/cart-top-google-analytics-landing-page/