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[gibbon]

Is there a best way of working out which link users click on where there is more than one link to one page on one page.

Question sounds a mouthful ... let me elaborate

For example

Your home page for www.widgets.com has two identical navigation bars, one at the top of the page and one at the bottom of the page.

Having two nav bars like this is a waste of space and you would like to get rid of one.

You need to evaluate which nav bar is most used by users.

How do you find this information out?

We have toyed with having?refid=top and?refid=bottom sort of things in the top and bottom links so that we can look in the logs to see which appears the most.

ie

www.widgets.com/bluewidgets?refid=top - for links from the top nav bar
www.widgets.com/bluewidgets?refid=bottom - for links from the bottom nav bar

However this presents a problem as wont google see the two destination pages as duplicate content?

Is there a way to work this out?

[dmorison]

I don't think G'bot is that stupid. They are the same page after all; and G'bot knows exactly how to parse a URL.

Instead of adding a query to both links, I would just add a query to one of them (the bottom one?), and leave the other as a direct link.

Google will probably index the former; and ignore the latter.