There is more to my website than just Google

How to optimize for other SE's

[sacrelage]

Hi All,

I have a small website of mine, which I started out as a hobby. I have the log file analyze set up which gives me all the info.

Now, something I noticed is that I see about 5 hits from the domain splatsearch.com (This is another SE)

I see that I get about 5 unique visitors from this site almost every other day. So i went to this site to see what keywords they are using. (My log files are not capturing the keywords used from this SE', but it does capture other keywords/phrases that users use from Google/MSN/Yahoo, So I believe that my log files are working fine)

The problem is: I want to know what keywords are driving visitors to my site.

My efforts: Log files give me just the # of unique visitors from this site and nothing more.
I tried various keywords that I used in my meta tags, but they do not bring up my site.
Worse, I type my website title and even that doesnt bring me any searches.

What is going on here? Any ideas?

[pmkpmk]

Usually your logfile should monitor the referrer along with the parameters. So for visitors coming from Google, you should see something like

www.google.com/?q=widget

in your logs. For this "splatsearch", the parameter is "searchstring=".

If this is not the case in your logs, maybe you need to enable referrer logging.

[Lady_helix]

Maybe you could check out the third party tracking software. In our office we use Phpmyvisites. Its a freeware that allows you to track visitors, the location of people where you get the visits(countries),referrers(search engine,direct,other sites) ,keywords etc.

:D

[davidof]

I think you guys have missed something. His log files are capturing the keywords used by Google and other search engines so there is no problem. This could be a case of referrer spam.

[edited by: pageoneresults at 9:45 pm (utc) on Mar. 1, 2005]
[edit reason] Removed URI Reference - Please Refer to TOS [/edit]

[cooldoug]

Yeah, look to see if they came from google.