Posted by Jemdam.com on 12/06/34 11:28

"Barbara de Zoete" <b_de_zoete@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Well it took me ages to find the answer to that question. I have found
>> over
>> the past 10 years of being a webmaster that google seaches will only make
>> a
>> small percentage of your traffic.
>
> Really? I think this might be true for either badly built sites (with
> little to spider) or sites that have a very havy competition (like porn).
> Which category does your site fit in?

I disagree with this. I get about 30% of my traffic from search engine. With
search engines alone I would have an alexa rating of 500000 or higher. With
link exchanges I'm now about 100000. The site is number 1 for may search
terms in google. The domain is:

http://www.pubtricks.com

I'm in the top 10 for

Pub tricks
Bar Tricks
+ many magic terms etc

Google just doesn't make that bigger impact. Look at all the sites that have
ratings of 3000 to 4000. They are not driven by search engines. They are
from having 1000s of hard links into their sites or being house hold names
like ccn.com bbc.co.uk etc

I strongly feel there is no magic method of making traffic other than hard
work (or may be RSS feeds but that is a whole other story).

I welcome other webmasters views, but only comment if you are a big (ish)
player, i.e. Alexa rating below 250000 as you just don't have enough traffic
to know the effect of links vs google.

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