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Robert123: allintext seems to exactly match google.it
Close, but not exactly on several searches I've done... add a little allinanchor/allintitle to the mix and this seems to be the mix for Google.it
Pre-austin we were getting aprox. 1700 unique hits a day. Post austin im getting 3500-4500 unique hits a day, however most of my google ranks have dropped severly and I do not see an increase of hits from other search engines.Another thing that is weird about this is that pre-austing when we were getting 1700 hits a day, the daily bandwidth was around 500MB. Now with 4000 hits in one day its up around 600MB.... a 3X traffic increase with a .25% bandwidth increase. It doesnt make any sense...
Big ISPs like AOL will cache content from popular sites. This means that visitors to your site might still hit your site with one small page request, just to check the date last modified, but if the content has not been changed recently, it will be provided by the local cache, not your site. This might explain an increase in hits, without the associated increase in bandwidth.
Typically, you would want to measure unique visitors, not unique hits... one page request can be counted as many hits... and one visitor can visit many pages.
that doesnt mean anything.
Google is huge.
Just because he works there doesnt mean he knows what the algo programmers are up to.
Lets not start with the penalty theories again. There are too many examples to prove otherwise. With numerous pages all capable (or worthy) of page one results, simple tweaks - not penalties - just a 1/4 turn of the knob, is enough to send one page down and lift another up.
Sounds like most of your new traffic comes from bots. (No images, just text, hence the low bandwith increase.)
Your future goes from Google's right hand into the left hand.... Enjoy your nap!
Say, do people shop at Walmart or at Uncle Waldo's General Store? Yes, Austin is killing small business....just as small business in the B and M world has been squashed by the chains. The Web is a reflection.
Adwords CPC increasingly will not work for small business. Yahoo and MSN won't be offering discount advertising either. Survival in a niche on-line business may be possible but it looks like guerilla tactics of a high order will be necessary.
[edited by: Marcia at 12:50 am (utc) on Jan. 28, 2004]
[edit reason] Off topic for WebmasterWorld posts per TOS. [/edit]
Went from 2000+ unique to 325 uniques today from google.
ouch
I've lost every serp keyphrase i had before and i have some new ones that change almost every query and they're dropping like flies.
Could it be yet another data change? Today's traffic already has yesterdays traffic beat.
(from where I'm sitting, my targeted keyword serps are still in the toilet, but the traffic is here)
If my keywords won't find my sites (when once they did) then how can I be certain that my general, everyday searches will be worth the effort?
I'll just take a nap and hope i wake up to a better google in the morning.
Give it a shot. The majority of all searches I've performed over the past two days have all produced significant amounts of garbage. My experience has found it extremely difficult to use Google right now to find what you're looking for. I've just about had it with them.
The are the only versions that show decent results in my opinion...
Is this what everyone else is seeing?
(I'm talking WWW, not specific centers)
i just did some searches on google.it and my site is back in the good rankings it was pre-austin... what does this mean if anything?
Time to offer an Italian version of your site? :)
I just saw a set hit that looked to be a combo of these results--seemed to be better than either set.
Maybe in the end---when all is revealed, they might have come up with something that works--
someone has to be optimisic around here
google.es is rocking for me :))
I see by the inference you are probably doing what I have been doing feverishly for the past two days. Google...she's become somewhat of a cheap date from what I see.
Having survived Florida and now died in the rankings post-Austin, I begin to wonder if G is worth using as a SE?
I stopped using Google so long ago because of spam and irrelevant search results. Hail Inktomi!
What does that mean?
Nobody knows nothin'. :D
