Large traffic spike from Google.*/referral

15 years ago

Hi,

Google referral just means that it is coming from Google but not from Adsense or general search terms, it means that it is coming from somewhere else than the search engine. These can be things like Google Groups or Google Base or any of the static pages created by Google users etc.

google.com.mx is Google Mexico
google.ca is Google Canada
google.in is Google India

It just means that people are finding you through their local search engine for their own country.

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JamesJeffery

15 years ago

I can't understand how my site would end up on groups or static pages on every Google TLD. Here is a screenshot:

Are they coming from search queries or not? It seems a little strange. Most dont even stay on the site for 1 second (bots?) others, 6 minutes.

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JamesPenn

15 years ago

I may be wrong, but I've recently started getting some traffic like this and it correlates with the addition of images to my blog - could it be from Google Image search?

James

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15 years ago

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yesacpow

15 years ago

I have always been getting a lot of traffic from Google referrals but the thing is, I don't know if they convert.

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Alex Barboza 15 years ago

Originally Posted by worldnein

Microsoft "bing" search engine is gaining popularity over google. It is important that your website appears in Bing search results.

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Bradley J Anderson

15 years ago

Originally Posted by worldnein

Microsoft "bing" search engine is gaining popularity over google. It is important that your website appears in Bing search results.

Google handles 75% of the world's searches, so I don't think they're too worried about it.

And besides, the OP is asking about Google specifically.

This has been going on for a LONG time now, though. A lot of people have posted about it, but the only answer Google ever gives is a short paragraph that is almost word-for-word what was given in post #2, which doesn't help to explain anything, really.

I would just be happy for the influx in traffic, because more people coming in means more sales. My best guess would be that it's probably just your site getting added to Google in the various countries.

Just an FYI, it's a very common thing for people to land on a website and only stay for a few seconds, in fact it's actually the norm unless the incoming traffic happens to be heavily targeted. That's why 'site stickiness' became so important to some webmasters.

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Bradley J Anderson

15 years ago

Originally Posted by worldnein

25% of all search engine requests are porn related. <snip>

Ok, but that still has absolutely nothing to do with the OP's question regarding his Google results. If you would like to start a new thread about Bing and it's plan of world dominance I, and many others I'm sure, would be more than happy to debate the issue.

Please understand I'm not trying to say your opinion isn't important, I'm just saying this thread isn't the place to debate the issue.

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ankur420420

15 years ago

The only reason I can think is that your site got added into all the Google sites in all these countries

Probably your site is about something which concerns the whole planet ....someone such as Osama

BTW, The Porn facts were too good...cant support Microsoft though

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Bradley J Anderson

15 years ago

Originally Posted by worldnein

The majority of internet traffic is pornography, and probably over three quarters of the male population with access to it, use it, so there's going to be a hell of a lot of murderers and rapists in the near future. In fact, that's pretty much all society is going to consist of. According to statistics, 40% of visitors to porn sites are women.

Pornography is serious problem worldwide and should be stopped immediately.

And there's your real problem with Google. You hate porn. Great. Unfortunately, it has NOTHING to do with this thread. Again. Please stop clogging up this person's thread with your opinions about porn or I'll report you myself.

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Ken 15 years ago

This happens quite often when using Pingler.
Have you done so, recently?
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J Bold

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Bradley J Anderson

And there's your real problem with Google. You hate porn. Great. Unfortunately, it has NOTHING to do with this thread. Again. Please stop clogging up this person's thread with your opinions about porn or I'll report you myself.

Exactly, he's way off topic and I'm also not sure what's he's on about. I just did a "suggestive" shall we say, search in Bing, no dirty words, no swear words, and the whole page returned results from porn sites.

*confused*

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boldguy

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Bradley J Anderson

Ok, but that still has absolutely nothing to do with the OP's question regarding his Google results. If you would like to start a new thread about Bing and it's plan of world dominance I, and many others I'm sure, would be more than happy to debate the issue.

Please understand I'm not trying to say your opinion isn't important, I'm just saying this thread isn't the place to debate the issue.

My vote is for you...well said!

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TryBPO

15 years ago

Most of our Referral traffic comes from our images. We optimize for these and it's become a good/fair portion of our traffic.

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