So I’m looking through my stats in log programs and I’m seeing strange things. Hundreds and in one case nearly a thousand people coming from keywords that I can’t place anywhere in SERP’s. I’ve tried the MCDar data center tool and still not finding anything. I’m still looking but at this point, but my most likely candidate is personalized search. Yes these are from sites that are working the blog, social search, linkbait scene but it’s still rather annoying to not be able say/see anything with any level of certainty.
Informal poll are you seeing traffic for keywords in your logs you can’t trace back to SERP’s, and if you are what are you attributing that to?
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Try looking in your raw log files and see what the HTTP referer is.
I got all excited just the other day a 1st page serp for SEO service – goes to Google only to find nish zilch nada.
This is no surprise for me. Ever since I started to “stumble” like crazy, traffic has been coming in but not just directly from stumbling. I think “stu” is on to something: checking the raw log files may reveal what you are looking for.
Yes I have been seeing it for a few monthes I think. I am on the fence as to the cause. I suspect it might be from submitting to google base.
Lots of traffic coming in for keywords I can’t seem to find in Google/Yahoo!/MSN for my site. And perversely, keywords that according to Google the site comes up high for but the pages are then nowhere to be seen in the SERPs. Definitely personalised search affecting it.
Yes, Stumbleupon is driving some traffic too.
I wrote one post about “improving your sex life as a diabetic” and now I’m getting all these searches on how to find sex in different cities and with certain types of people.
I think the wordpress plugin for recently commented posts might have combinded that title with on page words of other posts and ranked me for those terms.
Nice way to discover some real nichey keywords to easily get into.
Check the logs for clever referrer spamming… multiple keywords per line… Clickracks shows them as search terms.
John I have caught some jokers doing that on my blog but the other site I am seeing it on is a pretty unknown. I don’t see the motivation..
Hows about searchs for ‘oprah winfrey nude’?
People are arriving at my site but I can’t find the serps.
The might be using longer keyword phrases. Or maybe personalized search ?
I’ve noticed top ranking position in country-localized versions of Google. I can never find myself in those position for my normal Google, but when I search through, say, Colombian Google (google.com.co) I rank #1 in good queries that send good traffic.
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