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No more AOL referrals - what does it mean?

I am no longer getting AOL queries

         

NineLives

5:03 pm on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I've noticed that since the google update started, I am no longer getting queries from AOL search. But google and yahoo queries have increased by a lot! Has anyone else notieced something similar?

tigger

5:08 pm on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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nope my AOL traffic has doubled

europeforvisitors

5:41 pm on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)



Google delivered 55-65% of my referrals before the latest update. My Google referrals have climbed quite a bit since www settled down; they're now 75-80% of total referrals.

I haven't seen any drop in raw numbers of referrals from other sources, though. And AOL NetFind referrals are up a bit. Still, AOL referrals are only about 1% of the total, behind Google, Ask Jeeves, AltaVista, and Yahoo.

NineLives

7:47 pm on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Maybe it's just peculiar to my situation then.

ade_uk

1:23 pm on Jul 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

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my aol is about the same, but my Yahoo has doubled ! and cant work out why!

sparrow

1:26 pm on Jul 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Since the L$ era, we haven't been listed with AOL. I've even cancelled the L$ listing, to that we would go pure inktomi, and we still aren't listed.

You might check your Ink listing?

NineLives

3:11 pm on Jul 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Hi sparrow,

Listing is still there. We still have the same keyword results placement on AOL. I think I will check yearly stats to see if we are in some sort of a lull period.

NineLives

3:18 pm on Jul 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Ah HA! Found it! I had my log filter set to filter out everything below 1%. I'm still getting referrals - but they are now 0.8% of my total traffic! They used to be 20%. Our traffic has tripled since the update and there are many more keyword phrases that relate to our site now because we have significantly increased the content since April. Looks like I need to study this some more...