Leaving Mother Google and finding other friends.
I was checking out the traffic stats today for webuildpages.com and I got a warm and fuzzy feeling in that it looks like only about 1/3 of our traffic is via search engines today.
To be specific:
Website referrals - 67.40%
Search Engine Referrals - 32.41%
2 years ago about 90% of my traffic was from "Mother Google". That’s a scary thing. I’m feeling lucky that I was able to move beyond Google, and make some real link referral friends. (our free tools was a big help in this effort.)
My stats on search engines seem to be just about average with thier respective % of search traffic.
Google - 73.01%
Yahoo - 20.51%
MSN - 4.23%
What % of your traffic is from search engines?
What percentage from each search engine do you get?
How old is your site?
What type of site is it? (blog, informational, ecommerce)
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November 26th, 2005 at 9:53 am
80% of my traffic is from search engines, about 66% of which is Google, and 12% MSN, with Yahoo trailing at 1% and various other engines making up the last percent. My site is not quite five months old.
I credit much of the traffic I’ve gained with an extremely long tail subject - the site is informational.
But I guess I haven’t quite left mother google yet…
November 28th, 2005 at 8:46 am
We just dropped from page 1 to page 3 or 4 on Google for many top terms. And for our top, top term, we dropped from page 3, where we got a bit of traffic, to page 12. It seems to be related to Jagger, but the funny thing is, it’s squeaky clean (as far as we know) and we have no recip links. Since 80% of our traffic was from organic Google, we are now hurting on this site. I’d love to hear a bit more about your “real link referral friends” that you allude to.
November 28th, 2005 at 10:03 am
Neil,
from a quick glance, your backlinks look awesome. I’d look at your on page factors and internal link structures more than I’d be looking to get more links….and mind you, I don’t say that often…again, it’s not links you need…it’s on page optimization.