Sudden Jump in AltaVista Referals

[tedster]

In the last 2 weeks I'm seeing a sudden pop (like double) in the AV referrals on several sites. They're coming from this page, not the main page -- [altavista.com...]

Whatever's going on, I'm happy to see the extra traffic. We didn't pay for anything (and that's always nice!)

[Macguru]

Do you notice a sharper curve for the domains with keywords in it?

[tedster]

Good question.

Looked at 10 different sites, 4 with principal keywords in the domain and 6 without. No, I can't see any pattern. The best growth is on a site with no keywords in the domain, and second best growth is on a domain with a very strong keyword in the domain.

I should underscore -- this spike doesn't bring AV back to the big leagues by a long shot. It's running at about 4% of SE referers, instead of the 2% I've been seeing. But it's nice to see a positive change.

[markd]

Ted, can I ask - are these 'mirror sites' or sites with unique content and their own domains.

I have had some success in AV with a mirror .co.uk and .com site which is filtered by AV into 'country specific' results.

Thanks

[Josk]

probably becuase of av's increased spiering activity? we've been spidererd everyday for the last two weeks...