Comments on: At Least The Idea Was Good

By: Scott Adcox

Scott Adcox — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:23:40 +0000

But then again, I’m thinking more along the lines of, ‘It would be cool if someone…”

The real all stars are the people thinking, “It would be cool if I…”

By: Blue Collar Muse

Blue Collar Muse — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:38:18 +0000

This sort of reminded me of the tech guy from one of my favorite movies, “The Italian Job”.

When he sets in motion the over-the-interwebz-attack on LA’s traffic system from a laptop at the airport, he sends the message “You’ll Never Shut Down the Real Napster” springing from his contention that he was the owner of the Napster idea and it was stolen from him by his roommate while he was “napping”.

Nice to know the tech side of this project is thinking in the same terms the most successful minds in online tech are thinking.

Nice job, Scott!

By: Scott Adcox

Scott Adcox — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:00:32 +0000

Very good point Bill. What I probably should have said is that in general, Google is what matters. But you’re right…I have one site that gets a lot of traffic from MSN and AOL. I suspect a big reason for that is that the demographic interested in the content is more likely to use their search engines than they are Google. However, I also rank higher for my keywords on MSN and AOL than I do on Google (something I’m working on), and I think that plays a major factor as well.

Even with that situation, Google accounts for ~60% of the SE traffic on that site, which is relatively in line with their market share they own.

By: Bill Woodall

Bill Woodall — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:07:36 +0000

If you’re going to rely totally on google-analytics, then of course Google is the only search engine that matters.

If you want to be sure of your reach, go ahead and put some bait in for the older engines, especially Yahoo-Inktomi and Lycos… there are a lot of corporate portals built on those older technologies.

IF you want to know what is really going on, learn to use logfile analysis tools as well. Proxies (intermediate buffering and caching systems) can and do strip off the embedded scripts which google-analytics uses; thus you may have a substantial audience at AOL or in the APO/FPO realm which will not really register on your radar.