Increase in 'Googlebot-Image' visits in analytics

[neildomain]

Hi,

I noticed a substantial increase in 'Googlebot-Image' visits data under Technology>Browser & OS in Google analytics for a few clients. Is this a bug? Are there any known fixes apart from just adding a filter to exclude the data?

Regards

Niladri

[mikecp]

Niladri,

That seems odd to me, as I'm not seeing that behavior in any of my clients' accounts. I made sure to look in small, large, and image-heavy sites, but not one instance of googlebot-image.

I'd probably dig deep and see if there's some rogue filter in place or the tracking code is incorrectly installed. If you find that it's not polluting your data otherwise, you might consider just filtering out the traffic.

Mike

[FranckNlemba]

Hi Niladri, I don't know if your clients are brands or not, but what I can argue is that my clients (big brands) are also more visible on google universal search through images. A quick look on Google's monthly improvments shows that google is working hard on improving images rankings

Feel freee to check Google changes each month that could help

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/