The Google searching zerg.
Posted on 14.06.2011 03:28 pm
I've been using Google Analytics to track visits and I'd like to share with you some information that I hope some find interesting.
First of all, I don't get a lot of traffic to this little corner of the Internet since the subject matter is pretty narrow. Just so you know the size of the data we are working with here, there have been roughly 40k pageviews since I started (about 2 years ago).
Since this is a blog, people usually only read about 1-3 articles at a time, so the unique visitor count is sitting at 30k, which is pretty small in Internet standards.
Here are the browser stats for those who are curious.
Which I'm happy about and only 12% of those 5.31% are Internet Explorer 6.
But the next part I find interesting. Outside of the link sites (hi reddit) most of my traffic comes from google searches. And it's not the site itself but it's people searching for articles about "strtr, str_replace" and "One to One, Onto and Bijective functions" which I have written posts about, and others like it.
I have 1.150 results on different ways to google for those two things. It's strangely fascinating to watch.
You could say that there is an audience out there for this kind of stuff. One might imagine that writing articles that caters to the google audience would be a good idea.
I mean stackoverflow's model is set up so if your problem has been answered on stackoverflow, then you will find it via google, you can even find it within a minute of posting the question on stackoverflow.
But is it something worth pursuing? Well if you're in the business of upping your views, then sure. But judging on the comments (or lack there of) in those posts, those are just empty visits. People hammering in the keywords into Google hoping it will display what they need in the first page or so, if not, change the search a little bit and repeat.
They're not on your site for any personal reason, you just happened to have the answer they're looking for, and they are going to take it and leave. Which makes you feel a little bit dirty and used.
But I can't complain too much, I mean, this is something I do as well, but it's fun to see it from the other side.
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