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Mine:
PR=5
Pages Indexed in google: ~55,000
Avg. Daily Google Referrals: 1000-1500
Today's PR for index.html: 6
Yesterday's Google (not Yahoo) referals: 18
Pages Indexed: 198 (according to some free web based tool)
The funniest thing about our website, well as far as search engine referal and bandwidth usage goes, is various staff hobby pages and one partner's in particular consistantly account for 80% of the bandwidth.
Muskie
Main Site
PR5
Google referrals/day: 200
I also have 260 city based sites (travel sites) pointing back to main site. They are not mirror or same content.
PR3 to PR4
Google referrals/day/each site: 10
All sites have been up for about 8 months
Can anyone throw me a bone and give some advice?
Things I do know:
I need more content. More quality pages (text)
Now starting to use H1 H2 - 12/1/02
Now starting to use alt tage for graphics -12/1/02
Working on Inbound links from complementary sites.
Thanks
How are you finding out how many pages are indexed?
For those of you with 10,000 plus pages - are these all unique pages or "gateway" pages designed for search engines? Do you have any examples? Thanks.
[edited by: heini at 9:23 pm (utc) on Dec. 11, 2002]
[edit reason] took out url ¦ thanks! [/edit]
You can have zilions of pages indexed, have a pr of 10 and only receive 1 referer each quarter. It depends soooo much on the popularity of a theme and on how many searches are done daily. For me, i don't stress ... i never check how many referers a day i get from google. I don't know how many referers are good or should be the goal within my theme. NONE of the keywords suggestion tools returns any valuable number of searches per day. So why bother?
The only error i find within Brett's advise Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone [webmasterworld.com] is also the number of referer you can get.
Do those 26 things, and ... it will be drawing between 500 and 2000 referrals a day from search engines. If you build a good site with an average of 4 to 5 pages per user, you should be in the 10-15k page views per day range in one years time.
So for which topic? What keywords? How popular? How many searches a day? See what i mean!?
BTW: Today i built a couple of pages about a topic that is quite interesting for my visitors. After finishing and uploading the pages, i checked with various tools how often the keywords i covered are searched at google and other se's ... don't laugh: NOT EVEN 1. However, it's a really interesting theme and of good value for my site allthough it probably brings no referer from any se. ;-)