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Originally Posted by adultmobile
Just to update I am getting average 70 hits per day since 27th october.
Was getting 100 hits per day from 20 to 27th.
Was getting 130 hits per day from 13 oct to 20 oct.
Was getting 200 hits per day from 4 oct to 13 oct.
Was getting 500+ hits per day end of november.
Or if you want to read it other side, every next week went from 500 to 200 to 130 to 100 to 70.
It is not just that search.xxx gets less traffic, I can see my domains are lower in search results for keywords if compared with before. I am unsure if this is due to others optimising SEO (but pages seems to me same as before) or just there's more sites indexed, or they tune it in a way my results got lower, or a mix of all.
I see special partners (in case of cams, ifriends) appear in the adverts spot, there was none at launch.
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Ah, thanks for the clarification. A lot of times when a search engine starts out, the only ranking criteria they have to go on is their indexing algorithm. That's what initially looks at a site and tries to classify it. Once people begin using the engine and generating data, different metrics such as CTR, age, search term relevance, etc. will come into play which will absolutely affect rankings. You can look at it as the indexing algorithms "learning" from traffic patterns and whatnot. Also, like you said - a lot of folks might have been waiting for .xxx to "go live" before getting their sites ready.
With Search.xxx, I wouldn't rule out something else causing it as well though - they aren't a standard search engine per se. They have/had a preexisting database of every single site on the .xxx TLD and seem to be more driven by $$$ at this early stage. My experience is largely with more mainstream engines and algos which actually have to go out and "crawl" for sites and then index them.
Regardless, I wouldn't base any strategies around Search.xxx at this time. The tried and true approaches that work for .com and others will prevail eventually as the mainstream engines build their .xxx indices.