traffic via the google toolbar?

is this possible ...

[sandor]

i saw one of the referrers in my logs being [toolbar.google.com...] .. what does this mean? how can someone get to my site from the toolbar itself?

[sandor]

hello .. any thoughts on this?

[chrisnrae]

My guess would be that they typed your URL into the search box of the toolbar. If you type a direct URL into the toolbar search box, it will take you to the site and not to a google list of results.

[top5jamaica]

hmmm .. as simple as that eh. i just tried it myself and got sent directly to my website.

i really never thought it would be as simple as that because i'm thinking "why would someone type in the url there and not in the browser's address bar itself"

[chrisnrae]

LOL top 5. Funny enough, I actually watched my husband do it yesterday. He wanted to check something at CNN and went to google and typed in cnn.com LOL.

[abates]

I've accidentally typed a URL in the Google search box instead of the address bar on more than one occasion. :)