google is tha bitch

:1orglaugh lol , I Love my stats :thumbsup

I agree with you mate :(

I get pretty steady traffic from google on one of my tgps... it's not a shitload of traffic but it's steady. I don't skim SE traffic at all... This is for the last week.

14306 In 48507 Clicks 339% Prod

Here's my traffic from the last four months, including total unique visits per day, google, msn, ask, and yahoo unique visits per day.

Kind of strange how everything else goes up but google just bobs up and down. I did a ton of changes SEO wise, resubmitted my sitemap a few times, maybe the cause in the drop... who knows...

January 31
Total: 1,844
Google: 1,320
MSN: 8
Ask: 0
Yahoo: 2


February 28
Total: 1,897
Google: 1,590
MSN: 12
Ask: 3
Yahoo: 5


March 31
Total: 7,204
Google: 1,740
MSN: 20
Ask: 58
Yahoo: 7


April 28
Total: 13,979
Google: 1,337
MSN: 84
Ask: 77
Yahoo: 45

Here's the last couple of weeks worth of G sourced traffic for one of my sites... there are a few million pages indexed so I'm not sure whether that makes a difference. G referred traffic has been at about 30-35k daily for several months, but in that time the number of indexed pages has increased steadily. Maybe the crawler is good at determining the important pages and has left the obscure ones until last. :)

34306 15/Apr/2009
33894 16/Apr/2009
32657 17/Apr/2009
32559 18/Apr/2009
30079 19/Apr/2009
31314 20/Apr/2009
33608 21/Apr/2009
33428 22/Apr/2009
32695 23/Apr/2009
30914 24/Apr/2009
30428 25/Apr/2009
28596 26/Apr/2009
29569 27/Apr/2009
31811 28/Apr/2009
32220 29/Apr/2009

And just for fun, a few days worth of Yahoo (the rest are the same)

15 26/Apr/2009
17 27/Apr/2009
16 28/Apr/2009
14 29/Apr/2009

:1orglaugh

I also get the same amount of google hits every day, on multiple sites. It only changes when I move up or down some positions.

I'm not going to imply for a minute that google isnt going to send great traffic but I think your best business strategy is to not depend on it as the sole engine to drive your business because they can change their algo ect and then all your cashflow dries up. best to have a diverse marketing strategy.

Same goes for people who rely solely on adsense...

(I can't talk since I'm inexperienced with mainstream, and adsense is currently my only source of income in that area. :D )

Yeah especially when they credit themselves with sending you the hit
where surfers typed in domain.com into the browser address bar. They think because they have a toolbar installed they own this so called "traffic" quite interested if they count the bookmark clicks as well just to pad the percentage stats of google traffic in their reports..

Just wait for the next change in google's index...