WordPress Search Engine Refs… Right or Wrong?
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Please, help me with this…
A friend of mine is trying to tell me that the numbers beside a search engine phrase on the WordPress.com Stats plugin is how many pages a the person who typed that search term viewed on your site. I had this line on my stats:
“Ham and cheese 59”
So i tried telling him that i got 59 refers from Google or other search engines in that 24 hour period. He told me there’s no way that i got 59 clicks in one day from “ham and cheese.”
He says this, quote “so that means he looked at 59 sites on ur site” with I think he meant 59 pages and not 59 sites.
So tell me, am I wrong? I’m almost positive that he’s incorrect here.
Thanks for your help….
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You’re correct. That means 59 people searched Google for the phrase “ham and cheese”, and clicked through to your blog.
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Something changed on Google or in WP.com recently, because suddenly virtually all my referrals are coming from Google image searches. It’s been literally months since that’s happened, and with a decent pagerank I should get some decent regular referrals, too.
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I get a similar thing with Google Images. A search for “Poverty” reveals my blog on the 1st page – I only had 1 Blog Action Day post about it! I’m not complaining :)
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