"interesting" question about keyphrases

[Portucuenta]

well, an "interesting" question about search engines...
in the stats i have in my site (www.zycu.com), i can find the Keyphrases used on search engines
and from time to time, i find this kind of 'keyphrases'...
4067044171921
4069127562005
4056410760852
3992369449660
4026245991252
and so on...

with several results each, around 50 users coming from a search engine with those individual keyphrases, that r just big numbers...

if i google them, i find nothing, also with other search engines ive tried...
what is this?? is it a bug in the stats?? or some kind of weird bot??
i would really thank for a nice explanation! :D

cya! :)

[incrediblehelp]

Moved to Analytics Forum. I posted the same question a while ago here:

URLs and Numbers in the Keyword Referrer Section?

[Portucuenta]

oh, and nobody knows?? :(

good to know im not the only one! hehe

[incrediblehelp]

I thought it might have somehitng to do with Web Trends. Do you use Web Trends? Also are you finding these numbers in the actual raw logs or only in reporting?

[Portucuenta]

web trends? no, i dont know what that is, so i guess im not using it! hehe

actually i have never looked for them in the logs, ill try to search for them

[Portucuenta]

0k, i tried with one, and found this address

http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q...-MX&FORM=CVRE3

so... it looks as a msn bot? :|

[incrediblehelp]

So maybe it is when users click on the cache of the website, it sends this numbered keyword? Still this doesn't make sense for my issue. Some months these "keyword referrers" are the top referrers.

[Portucuenta]

yep, same here... not the top, but top 50 at least...

and the link doesnt work, so... i dont know if it is actually the cache! :)

[Pebbles]

Hi, my first post here *waves*

If there numbers are actually that precise, always the same number of digits, then I'm not too sure.

However there is a technique where you can type in a keyword or phrase followed by some gibberish such as numbers to see what comes up - heheh, and now I'm trying to remember why... I think it's a way of seeing who is paying the most for Adwords, or to see the results without Adwords, or something like that.

It's in my notes somewhere but can't recall where, as wifey keeps moving my paperwork around...


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