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Today, the stats show about 20% google, 20% yahoo and 15% MSN.
Traffic has more than doubled, today only (thousands of visitors.)
There is no apparent change to the SERPs.
Has anyone else seen anything like this going on with their sites today?
Since nothing appears to have changed in the SERPs, what could explain this huge increase in google and yahoo search traffic?
Internal pages ranking better for more obscure keyword phrases?
Check your logs.
Interesting.
It looks as if the same searches are being done but the volume is much higher. It is as if google and yahoo suddenly got twice as many searchers interested in this particular type of widget.
The total numbers are holding up today although MSN has gone up to about 40%. Google and Yahoo are still at about 20% each.
I have seen 2 distinctly different serp results for the same query, they change at will back and forth. I'm guessing that the datacenters have different indexes. So keep trying your query, you may see the different serp.
Although if you are already #1 this explanation can be discounted.
A couple of times that I have had a big jump on some of the same old searches, it is because of "real world" factors. A magazine article about "fuzzy blue widgets" can lead to a lot of people searching on it.
As centered as we are on the web and the stats, sometimes we have to step back and remember that searches are done by real people and the search volume can be triggered by many different things. If they make old fashioned hand crank ice cream on a PBS show, or some star is seen vacationing on a carribean island that there will be a lot of searches on those specific things, and we will never be able to figure out why by looking at the SERPs or our logs.
In that case, it was pretty obvious what happened.
This is not looking like that.
I know there have been some SERPs running around that appear to be "pre-Dominic" or "post-Dominic" and have my pages at 1,2,5,6,7 for the most common two word "widget phrase" ...
I have not seen those in a while and instead, I keep getting the new listings at 4,5,8,9 and "does not exist."
Perhaps there is a data center someplace with the better results but I am not seeing it. I will just enjoy it while it keeps up.
msn is back to leading for search traffic but traffic is still up about 25% versus the last 4-5 weeks.
For a set of serps I'm watching, I'm seeing newly created doorway pages come in and beat high ranking sites simply because they are new. I know they won't stick, but it looks like a method to take advantage of Google's poor ranking system right now.
Once the dance occurs and backlinks are finally added and your Serps our somewhat back to normal, then remove the "content targeted pages".
Granted, they will flux in and out, but a day in can equal a lot of traffic.
There is something seriously wrong if a freshly created doorway page can outrank established existing sites.
This has always been the problem with Fresh SERPS.
