Starting last week, I started to see something I wasn't expecting...a ton of traffic from Yahoo. Last Monday I somehow got nearly 7000 from Yahoo alone, and thought it was a fluke. But there has been a steady stream all week...today so far, my stats show nearly 200. More than Google, more than any other. I'm pretty sure this is all going to one SERP, and I think I know which page. The problem is, I can't find any top ten rankings for that site's target KW on Yahoo. My stats are stubbornly not saying exactly what the KW is. How can I locate this SERP so I can bring more of this traffic home?
No, just the host's built in stats. Have been trying to get AWSTATs working forever but it won't compile data for me. The funny thing is the SE breakdown shows that 70+% of the traffic comes from yahoo, but only lists two kw with a handful of hits to them.
assuming you have linux - remote or locallly cd to your access_log file directory and do a grep "yahoo" access_log or zgrep "yahoo" access_logxxxxx.gz ( replace xxxx for the date of the compressed file of course) then you get all yahoo traffic and visually see what nature of traffic Y is bringing it might be generic value traffic or just various yahoo bot traffic such as YahooFeedSeeker or slurp if you have feeds then you get tons of YahooFeedSeeker traffic without human traffic following ... same for slurp if you have value traffic - you may find image traffic or keywords in the referrer strings the first indicator for human-created value traffic would be to have proportionally higher adsense $
I'll give that a shot...though I'm pretty sure my server's Unix. Thanks for answering, either way! That's a great tip. the referrer logs say search.yahoo.com Could that still be Feedseeker or slurp?
when you look at ONE complete access_log line, then you see the agent string of course images.search.yahoo.com is different from search and from the 2 Y feedseekers or slurp as well. re analytics - Google or OWN I totally disagree with a statement that G analytics is all you need. the one and only TRUE and directly controllable analysis is your OWN access_stats that can be far more accurate than G ever will be - provided you have a perfect access_log analysis tool/SW. months ago I have completely removed G analytics code from my site since the GA results were heavily irrelevant as compared to my own processed data. It is good for newbies to have help from G or other outside sources. but it is far better you take control of your own site using your own resources! in addition there are situations where you physically NEED to view individual raw files every now and then, for example during security breach research OR when you need a precise IP from a visitor of a precise page at a given time .... there are lots of data GA never will give but that may be vital to a true and fully optimized success of a site!
Yes statcounter is good at tracking keywords and will definitely let you know what keywords you are getting the most traffic from. I love it.
It might be somehow your site/blog's RSS feed got in any Yahoo service like my yahoo.etc...Not 100% sure though
I love both Google Analytics and Statcounter. The Statcounter stats are updated in real-time but you have to wait 24 hours for the Google Analytics stats.
Can't go wrong with Google Analytics. Loads of great stats and information. Would highly recommend it. Free too!
Use statcounter.com as free counter, it give you recent 500 came from and keyword analyzer. I love it.