Search Engine Referrals, October 2007
October 2007, Revyu’s busiest month yet, with a total of 135,776 page requests. One interesting trend in recent months has been an overall decrease in the proportion of traffic accounted for by search engine crawlers. This is now down to around 25% of page requests, with Googlebot generating around three times as many requests as crawlers from the live.com and yahoo.net domains. We’ve also started to see more activity from archive.org and alexa.com crawlers, and a pleasing development is some more substantial crawling from Semantic Web services such as zitgist.com.
Top 20 Search Engine Queries bringing Traffic to Revyu in October 2007
- 4192 referrals: www.facebook.com
- 662 referrals: facebook.com
- 600 referrals: barn asia
- 341 referrals: www.facebook
- 153 referrals: kick and dicky
- 110 referrals: park farm bristol
- 109 referrals: cicciolina
- 105 referrals: costco milton keynes
- 97 referrals: wharfedale micro drive in ear headphones
- 97 referrals: 971 the river
- 96 referrals: brazilian club london
- 93 referrals: goosync review
- 88 referrals: barn asia newcastle
- 69 referrals: canon d400
- 69 referrals: wavendon arms milton keynes
- 68 referrals: the wavendon arms
- 66 referrals: barn asia newcastle upon tyne
- 63 referrals: goosync
- 62 referrals: las iguanas milton keynes
- 61 referrals: costco mk
The results are remarkably similar to last month, with regulars such as facebook, barn asia, park farm bristol, goosync and 971 the river well represented. The notable new entries are cicciolina and the recently opened Las Iguanas in Milton Keynes.
There are too many queries at the end of the long tail to report in this blog post, but I’m entertained to see someone searching for “dodgy restaurants and fast food” – I can’t think of a better use for Revyu than that. Unfortunately the first result on Google for this query is a link to the Revyu page about the excellent Indian Fast Food Restaurant and Takeaway, Cotham, Bristol. This is a great example of how keyword-based searching will never be the answer to all our information seeking needs. For anyone looking for excellent indian food in Cotham, Bristol, rest assured that the “bring your own booze” Indian Fast Food will also serve you up a great meal.