Referral from Google Homepage
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I got a referral to my blog from http://www.google.com today. That is, the Google homepage. I don’t have any advertising campaign things, so it can’t have come from that.
What could result in a referral like this? Is it most likely someone who subscribes to the blog via Google Reader and who also has Google Reader integrated in a custom homepage?
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I guess when someone makes some search on google and if your blog article comes as a result which he opens up then http://www.google.com comes up in your referral list
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Maybe. But there’s also a “Search Terms” section in the stats. Most days I get search hits, but this is the first direct referral from google.com. If every Google search view resulted in a referral from the Google homepage, then I should imagine I’d have more than one by now.
Nice avatar by the way ;)
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Thanks for avatar thing…
Umm you referral list does not repeat any referral.. Which means that if 50 people from facebook comes to my blog in my referral list it would be shown only one as facebook.com
P.S.: Its like from how many different places your blog was refereed and not how many times ;)
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Hmmm… For me there is a views column for each referrer, and for Google.com is says 1, whereas it has said other numbers for other referrers.
I have 3 referrals from cplusplus.com, which expands into three different pages on that site.
However, as another example, I have 4 referrals from en.wordpress.com/tags/sfml, which is presumably just a single page.The Google.com one is non expandable. Perhaps I should read more about stats in the WordPress codex…
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Google.com, facebook.com and stats from other similar sites are non expandable…
But if I post your link on two different post of my page then indeed you would get two different url..
Understand the difference ;)
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Okay then. Final thing now, as I’m probably reading too much into this.
This is the relevant extract from today’s referrals list:
Referrer Views
Google 1There is only one from Google, and yet I have seven search terms. Given that most people search with Google, isn’t that a little strange?
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he he indeed not…
Try to understand this fact that in this big world of internet you are not the only one with this article…
For the same keyword they must be million documents…
Thus in the end all depends upon the google page ranking of your web post…
Higher it is more referrals shall you have…
I have like 500 referrals from google on my single post because its about bus routes in my city of which little information is available on the other hand I dont have even a single referral for my break with my gf article :p
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So having a search term in my stats doesn’t necessarily mean that someone found my blog via a search engine with that keyword?
It merely means that someone did the search and my blog was on one of the pages, though they didn’t necessarily visit it or even see it?
So what exactly are the search term stats for then? :P
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No
It means that your blog was visited….
What I was trying to say is your blog is not shown as a result always by Google..
I mean if you search for “My first maggi” my blog would come as first result
But if you search for “Maggi” my blog wont come as a result on google…
Is it clear now?
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A search term in your stats means that someone used that term to find your site. Might have been Google might have been another search engine. Might not have been the first page might have been the 8th page.
Use the search terms as a general guide on how people are finding your site – don’t worry about each individual search, look at the long term trend. One of the weak points of the Stats package here is that it does not seem to show the back link to where the search came from.
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Yes, I understand that searches for terms related to my blog need not put it near the front.
But if I have seven things in my “Search Terms” on the stats page, then that means people were referred to me by searches seven times today, right?
On the other hand there is only one referral from Google.com. So are the other six from other search engines?
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stats option shoes back links but not for dynamic pages whose content keep changing
P.S.: For facebook it will show: facebook.com but for a link from blog it will show you the complete blog url like abc,wordpress.com/abc
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Search Engine Terms
These are the terms, words, and phrases people use, through various search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing), to find posts and pages on your WordPress.com blog. Please note that these do not include the terms which your readers use within your blog’s Search Widget or any other search form on your blog.
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Referrers
The referrers section lists other blogs and web sites that link to your blog. A view is counted as a referrer when a visitor of the other site clicks a link and lands on a URL of your blog.
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Yes. I was just wondering, if the single referral from google.com was due to a search, why there was only one referral from a search engine website, when I had seven search terms in my stats.
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