The Interesting World of Search Engine traffic
simon — Tue, 03/18/2008 - 14:47
It's intereting what people search for online and even more interesting how some of these searches end up on your own personal website. Today I thought I'd take a look at some of the top referrers to this site and, if they were search engines, what search terms were used to get users here. The following are for the last month.
Funnily enough Google Korea is my biggest referrer with the search term 'notebook'. I've no idea why my site ranks highly for that term, especially in Korea.
Live.com has sent me some traffic with the terms 'tabla' and 'philosophy' so that's not too much of a surprise. Although I've had a few hits from them with the search term 'first'.
Google China is sending me traffic for the term 'blog', again, not sure why I've got any ranking there.
And, perhaps not surprisingly, most of my traffic is for my uni papers. All the major search engines have sent me considerable traffic with terms such as 'philosophy essays', 'passions', consciousness essays', and a lot of traffic for specific arguments such as 'Atrahasis essay', '"myth in the time of cholera" Fabulous science argument', 'PHI120 critical thinking', 'yahwist and priestly creation stories essays', and my fovourite 'similarities and differences of cronus and ouranos'.
All very interesting, I just wonder where my essays are being used!
Ohh, and how much traffic have I recieved this month so far (17.5 days)? 9247 page loads.











search engine referrers
Guest — Tue, 03/18/2008 - 23:37how could i find out these same statistics for my blog?
search engine referrers
Nathan Everson (not verified) — Tue, 03/18/2008 - 23:39sorry, simon, that last comment was from me
Google Analytics
simon — Wed, 03/19/2008 - 05:03Nath, you can get a Google Analytics account and install their tracking code on your website. Blogger allow for this but you Wordpress don't so you can't use it there.
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