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		petercooper on June 27, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6 One wonders if there's an "advantage" you could gain from this.. If your site is getting requested by AVG but NOT a valid browser, you can assume someone did a search that you appeared on but they did NOT click on you. This metric could be useful for improving your CTR in regular search results, something totally impossible to measure before.

spydez on June 28, 2008 [–]

The problem being you've no idea why they did not click on you - only that they did. Thus, you can know something's wrong, but not why.

And how are you going to improve if you don't know what's wrong?

petercooper on June 30, 2008 | [–]

In SEO that's a pretty common problem.

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