Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
2001 had been the idea for spliting into
example-innenarchitektur.com -> German version
example-interior-design.com -> English version
example-interior-design.com alias example-design.com
2009 had been the idea to create a new
online magazine on
example-design.com
What was 2001 to 2008 an alias of
example-interior-design.com
is now an independent new site with
all new content.
After it started in May,
the stats for July show
61 search.live.com
37 bing.com
22 google.de
5 google.com
4 google.ch
4 google.at
More visitors from live are usual an indicator for troubles with Google.
Any ideas?
More visitors from live are usual an indicator for troubles with Google.
This might be true if all other things are equal... ie, if your Google rankings were as good as your Bing rankings, then more traffic from Bing might indicate that Bing had more searchers.
Is this the case, though? Ie, are you ranking as well on Google as you are on Bing?
So when Bing brings more visitors than Google, it's a very clear indicator, that there is some filter in Google applied.
So when Bing brings more visitors than Google, it's a very clear indicator, that there is some filter in Google applied.
Ah, now I understand what you meant. I thought "indicator for troubles with Google" was saying that Google was having troubles because Bing was delivering more traffic... and I was suggesting that perhaps this was because you were not ranking well on Google. I gather that poor rankings are indeed the case. ;)
As I understand it now, you have three fully independent sites. Is this the case?
Several possible issues come to mind....
Do you have any duplicate content issues with the new domain (that was once an alias) and the new one.
How have you handled getting links for the new domain? Are they from sources independent of the sources for the old domains? If not, this may be a problem.
What about hosting and interlinking? How independent are the sites?
Also... Google (IMO) is still much tougher about link quality than Bing (formerly Live) is, and some new links can take a while to build. Roughly where are you ranking for your desired queries?
More visitors from liveReal visitors or referrer spam bots?
MSN fakes referrers [webmasterworld.com]
Referrals From MSN [webmasterworld.com]
Strange Referrer Activity [webmasterworld.com]
Real visitors or referrer spam bots?
I checked back the referer log
At visitors from Google, I have seen the site with the
query found in the referer log
At bing, there are 2 categories
Long tail queries, where I can find the site with the same query
One word queries, where I thought it's impossible to rank at top for an new site. There I never found the site.
So I would say
1/3 real Bing referrers
2/3 stragen activities from a referrer spam bot
