Timeline for Will adding multiple Events to Google Analytics be seen as gaming?
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| Nov 25, 2016 at 6:40 | vote | accept | JCL1178 | ||
| Nov 25, 2016 at 6:01 | answer | added | nyuen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 5:56 | comment | added | JCL1178 | Thanks. We have a site that provides consumer information and they changed from articles to videos. So instead of getting clicks to a second page, we now have visitors come in, watch a video, and leave. This inflated the bounce rate on the site, so we now report play/pause on the videos as events, which dropped it way, way down. Can you repost the comment as an answer so I can accept? | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 5:50 | comment | added | nyuen | Nope. What you do with your data, how you manipulate it, is up to you (so long as you are not collected and sending PII data to Google). But really, in the end all you are doing is impacting those who need to read and interpret your reports. Google doesn't dock you for that. Many (poorly designed) sites may naturally have a near 0% bounce rate. | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 5:29 | comment | added | JCL1178 | My concern is if I "artificially" use events to drop my overall bounce rate from 66% to near zero, will Google interpret that as a black-hat technique and penalize me. | |
| Nov 23, 2016 at 17:59 | comment | added | nyuen | Not sure what your concern is or where you heard about any negative effects from Google. Do you think they'll penalise you or something for having too many events?? That won't happen as far as I know. The only time Google might step in is if you are collecting PII. | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 23:41 | history | asked | JCL1178 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |