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    • HughesDigital
      HughesDigital last edited by

      I have a website that was built for the primary purpose of showing HTML 5 capabilities.  With this, we have to create forced page views within analytics in order to receive any data about consumer behavior on the site.

      Are search engines viewing these forced page views as actual webpages?  Does it even effect SEO efforts?

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      • Nobody1560986989723
        Nobody1560986989723 last edited by

        What do you mean by 'Forced Pageviews' - either someone is actually viewing a HTML5 page, in which case a normal page view will be in play, or you provide a link to a non-HTML5 one for those with non-compliant browsers in which case you will only get a pageview on the other page if they click through.

        Unless you're talking about an automatic redirect for non-compliant browsers? Can you clarify what is actually happening on-site please?

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        • HughesDigital
          HughesDigital @Nobody1560986989723 last edited by

          The forced pageviews I am referring to are on the analytics side of things.  It is code that is put in place to trigger analytics into thinking that the website user has viewed multiple pages.   There is not an actual page the user sees.

          Since the page views are contained within analytics I don't think that there should be a problem.  I just wanted to reach out to see if anyone has experience using this technology and how it effected rankings.

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          • Nobody1560986989723
            Nobody1560986989723 last edited by

            Oh in that case if there is no actual page, neither for humans nor for search engines, then I don't see how it would affect your SEO efforts, positively or negatively.

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            • HughesDigital
              HughesDigital last edited by

              That is what I thought, but wanted to make sure.  Thank you for responding. 🙂

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