Some of you have been following my experiment site - in my sig - using the coop as the only source of links for the site. Thanks for the green! In any case, a few have stated that the coop does bring in traffic. In fact, I knew that it did but never could quantify it. Well with the experiment site, I was recapping 2005 and surprise... surprise: 9.5% of the page traffic is coming form the coop. Easier to quantify since the coop is the only linking activity for the site. Now this is a new site so there isn't a bunch of traffic yet but I didn't think the number would be so large. It isn't 100% scientific as I could not check every referrer to see if it was coop or not but I did do a scan and I am over 90% sure that most of the 9.5% is from the coop. Edit: The site has been up since last Oct 2005.
Yeah - I was just surprised that the figure was so high in terms of referrals back to the experiment site.