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I figure it got picked up when I mentioned it and had my site in my sig file.
I don't know which search engine it came from. Just for kicks, I popped it into my Google toolbar, but, as I well expected, my site didn't show up on the first few pages of results based on that keyword alone.
Question is, is there a quick way to find out where I place with search engine results based on any keyword? I'm just curious as heck to find out how someone surfed across my page based on this word!
Kris
Question is, is there a quick way to find out where I place with search engine results based on any keyword?
Probably not a recommended one!
Have a quick scan through your web logs. Searching them with (e.g.) notepad for "marketleap" could find something like ...
xx.xx.xxx.xxx - - [04/Sep/2003:19:44:25 +0100] "GET /page.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 12817 "http://www.google.com/search?q=marketleap&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)"
.. which will give you a pretty good clue as to which search engine the query came from.
This reference appeared in my server logs under the "to key words section" which just lists the words people used to find my site. No info is connected with it such as search engine, browser, etc. However, if this had shown up in my 3rd party hit counter, I could have figured it out.
So,it appears I'm stuck just searching based on the key word myself and seeing where I show up on the search results, huh?
Kris
This has happened each and every month, I get around 20 callers a month from this alone.
i demand to be told whats going on! I have rights to!
No info is connected with it such as search engine, browser, etc
If you are looking at your raw server logs, you should be able to see this kind of info as shown in message #3 of this thread.
Doesn't your hosting company give you access to these?
# Hits Search String
15 2 1.24% marketleap
That tells me "marketleap" is my 15th most popular search string, I've gotten 2 hits with it or 1.24% of the hits.
Nowhere in my logs can I see that piece of info connected with a search engine or when I received the hit.
The closest thing I have to what appears in message #3 is:
# Hits User Agent
1 76159 15.03% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
As far as I can tell, I am unable to match any hit to my page based on the word marketleap from my raw logs.
Kris
# Hits Search String
15 2 1.24% marketleap# Hits User Agent
1 76159 15.03% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
These don't look like lines from a raw log file. More like stats from a basic analysis package. They will be built from your raw logs using a tool (e.g. awstats)
Your raw logs (if you have access to them) will live on your server in a file called (for example) access_log. This can be opened using notepad and searched.
Some hosting accounts don't give you access to your raw logs. Just call the support department of your hosting company and ask ...
Thanks! I'll look into it!
And now that you point that out, we host one of our web sites here at home and of course I see the raw logs like that, so now I do know what I'm looking for.
Kris
Cute site :)
