T-Bucket Forums Blog

It appears our streak of seeing our traffic numbers setting new records may be over for a bit.  Two weeks ago, the T-Bucket Forums were breaking records every day, but that has settled back down to the point that yesterday was the slowest traffic day we’ve seen yet this month.  I suspect our members are taking advantage of the warm Spring weather, to either get ready for a cruise or were fortunate enough to be in the wind.

Nevertheless, the overall monthly statistics are still looking very impressive.

749 threads (+38) - 7,146 posts (+377) - 397 members (+11) - 190 active members (+1)

Google shows 2,260 indexed pages (-230) - 1,613 inbound links (-71) and a search on T-Bucket brought the forum in at number 6 of 302,000 results, which is an improvement of 1 position and 8,000 results.

Yahoo shows 2,175 indexed pages (-135) - 4,592 inbound links (-138) and a search on T-Bucket brought the forums in at number 63 of 247,000 results, which is a drop of 6 positions and an loss of 4,000 results.

AltaVista shows 2,380 indexed pages (-150) - 4,610 inbound links (-130) and a search on T-Bucket brought the forum on at number 63 of 247,000 results, which is a drop of 6 positions and a loss of 5,000 results.

Some of the search engine results have been a bit disappointing, but then we started looking at some very detailed results from Google Analytics and realized I was missing some of our hotter keywords.  Currently, the combined search engines are providing 26.45% of our traffic.  Of that total number, Google accounts for 23.46% of the new visitors, Yahoo accounts for 34.03% of the new visitors and (surprisingly enough!) AOL accounts for 48.48% of the new visits.

So we started sifting through to see what search terms people were using to find the T-Bucket Forums.  All along, we assumed that T-Bucket would be one of our stronger search phrases, when actually it is one of the weaker terms.  The more popular terms are T-Bucket Forums and T-Bucket Forum.  So we worked out way back through, looking at these terms and the results they produce.

Searching for T-Bucket Forums,  Google brought the forums in at numbers 1 and 2 of 25,000 results.

Yahoo brought the forums in at number 1 and this blog in at number 2 of 62,100 results.

AltaVista brought the forums in at number 1, this blog at number 2 and numbers 4 and 5 were Add To Google links to this site, out of 62,100 results.

AOL Search brought the forums in at numbers 1 and 2, with links to the forums at numbers 5, 6, 7 and 9 of 5,450 results.

We then did another search on the phrase T-Bucket Forum (singular) and Google brought the forums in at number 1 of 34,000 results.

Yahoo brought the forums in at numbers 1 and 2 of 80,200 results.

AltaVista brought the forums in at numbers 1 and 2, with links to the forums at numbers 4, 6 and 7, of 80,200 results.

AOL Search brought the forums in at number 1 of 4,780 results.

These were more along the lines of numbers we were hoping to see.  We’ll start tracking these phrases, as well, to see how well we’re being ranked on those searches.

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