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I, Brian
05-19-2005, 12:08 PM
Just curious - I've seen you comment on search traffic results from analyst groups, but I seem to have missed if you have ever published traffic results for any part of SEW itself?
Or have I simply being paying too much attention to the forums, instead of the SEW articles?
Simply because it would be an interesting set of analytics, if you were to publish any kind of regular stats on the composition of search engine traffic to part or all of SEW.
Or would you not be authorised to release such information?
dannysullivan
05-20-2005, 08:50 AM
No, I haven't released any stats like that. Well, ages and ages ago I used to do search engine EKGs that shows crawler traffic. One reason we don't publish any detailed breakdown is competitive. Another reason is that in general, it's not that useful. What happens at one particular site isn't reflective of sites in general.
I, Brian
05-20-2005, 12:41 PM
What happens at one particular site isn't reflective of sites in general.
True, but I figure a site as well established as SEW should be able to provide an interesting illustrative analysis of natural search traffic sources, and user behaviour trends over time, based on the natural search traffic to SEW - or even the Jupiter Media network itself.
It just seems a little like a possible missed opportunity on search metrics for a diversely structured site about search, especially when a site like Boing Boing provides raw traffic data (http://www.boingboing.net/stats/) that others could develop analyses from.
qcguide
05-20-2005, 03:12 PM
Well, ages and ages ago I used to do search engine EKGs that shows crawler traffic.
I remember those! You're right. Interesting, but not very useful.
seobook
05-21-2005, 01:07 AM
My percent traffic to the SEO / search related domains is absolutely dominated by Google. To me it seems Google probably has over 75-80% of that audience segment.
I have few clients and a few random non seo related websites. The traffic distribution is way different on those. On some of them yahoo and msn drive nearly as much traffic as Google does.