How much traffic do you get from Google?

[ecobo]

Hi guys!
I just wondered how much traffic do you get from Google? How many % of your traffic comes from Google? To make this an interesting and useful topic, please tell us what sort of site do you have and how do you optimize for Google. It will be useful if you tell what PR has your site.
Regards!

[cbp]

Heres a cut and paste of a message I posted in another thread (the PR of the 3 sites used for this are 5 & 6):

All my sites rank higher for almost all their keywords in Yahoo than Google, but in the last 7 days here are the combined stats to 3 of the sites based on search engine referrals:

Google & AOL = 71%
Yahoo = 15%
Inktomi based SE's = 12.5%
The Rest = 1.5%

Even though we rank worse in Google, they still rock --- maybe too much emphasis is getting placed on Yahoo due to the hype/publicity surrounding the change ...

What say you?

CBP

[ecobo]

These are interesting facts - higher in Yahoo, but MUCH more traffic from Google. I think it will be a real financial disaster for all site/e-business owners if Google decide to go pay-per-click (touch wood)

[jwm5411]

We get about 30% of our traffic from Google. We have had a hard time ranking well for our keywords on Google and got bombed by Florida. We actually are doing quite well with MSN and are coming up fast in Yahoo! Submitted to DMOZ...who knows when they will get around to us.
Our page rank is 3. Working on links but it seems that it takes a few months for Google to find the links and get them posted.
Great idea for a topic...

[ecobo]

Hi jwm5411!
I have the same problem with the back links. I have a lot, I see them on other sites, but Google is still blind for them.
Thank you for your post.

[cbp]

I have the same problem with the back links. I have a lot, I see them on other sites, but Google is still blind for them

Google only ever returns a "sample" of backlinks and never them all. If Google knows about the link and can crawl it, it will be counted - it just may not show up as a link.

CBP

[ecobo]

Do you know a way to find all incoming links that are in the Google database?

[minstrel]

Originally Posted by ecobo

Do you know a way to find all incoming links that are in the Google database?

link:www.sitename.com will show only a small sample

+"www.sitename.com" or +"sitename.com" will show a lot more but not all

allinurl:www.sitename.com is another method but like the above will not show all

Using those "commands" in other engines may locate more backlinks to your site but won't guarantee they are recognized by Google. However, ultimately using anything but the "links:" syntax will give you a good estimate of what Google recognizes.

If you need to know EVeRYONE who is linking to you, use several different search engines and check for text relevant to your website as well as the URL (some sites might list you by your business name or a keyword phrase rather than by your URL).

Postscript: That "EVeRYONE" was a typo and I was going to correct it but then I said to myself, "self?", I said, "maybe you should leave it and people will think you are some sort of cool skater dude - and you can use all the positive press you can get", so I left it.

[ecobo]

I know about the 'link:www.sitename.com' since it is the standard Google backward links search method, but the other two are new for me. Thank you!

[janeth]

We rank good on Google and Yahoo but get about 70% from Google and get more from links from other sites then we do from Yahoo. We also get a lot of forum traffic because we post on a lot of forums but that is not really good traffic to count.

We where a pr6 last month but dropped to a pr5 on the last update.

[joliettech]

We get just under 60% of our traffic from Google. Before the Google update (Brandy) we were getting close to 70% of our traffic from Google. After that update, Google dropped us to the mid 100’s from the top 10 for our top 4 key phrases. So needless to say our traffic has dropped off a bit since then.

To combat this we’ve started an AdWords campaign for these 4 key phrases. Still our traffic is off approx. 30% since Brandy. Apparently far fewer people click on the Ads than on the Non-Ad search results.

We are still getting hits for hundreds of other random key phrases in Google.

[Dragonsi]

I monitor and look after about 17 website's, with 90% of them getting about 40 - 50% of visitors coming from Google, followed by Yahoo and NSM (god knows why). Ask Jeeves is quite big (30 > 40%) on about 60% of these sites.

I still see Google as the most important but I am begining to like the new Yahoo - 2 months ago, I was slating Yahoo for being so bad...

If Google goes pay-per-click, it won't take long before the wised-up public notices that mainly commercial sites are featured on Google and they will start using other SE's > thus > the end of Google..

[cbp]

When comparing traffic from one search engine to another, would it not be helpful to know relative rankings in the search engines as well for the sites.

ie Of course there will be relatively more traffic from Yahoo, if Google rankings are poor. (I have seen people try and interpret this as the end for Google as there Google traffic has declined .... but so had there ranking!!!!)

In my eg in message 2 above, our Google traffic still rocks, despite ranking higher in Yahoo (one could make the assumption that if my sites ranked the same in Google and Yahoo, Yahoo would have an even smaller share)

CBPb