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Subject: 
Re: fun with LUGNET web site statistics
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Date: 
Sun, 22 Feb 2004 06:07:10 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller wrote:
[...]
Referring sites:

    By far, the biggest site here is www.peeron.com -- largely due to the
    embedded images links above. After that, there's an huge number of
    requests from Korean sites cafe.daum.net, dethhend.compuz.com, and
    www.brickinside.com -- also embedded links. Anyone know anything about
    these sites?

    Google is surprisingly low on the list -- for most sites I've seen the
    logs for recently (admittedly not my actual job for about 6 years now),
    it's near the top.

All very interesting statistics! Thanks for crunching the data.

I have always thought that Lugnet should allow Google (and perhaps other search
engines) to crawl the posts on Lugnet. Even though the data would perhaps be a
few weeks old, I think that having the extra search abilities would be both
beneficial, and draw more people to Lugnet. It would certainly give faster
answers for many 'old' questions.

[...]

Search Queries:

    Top 20 Search requests that led to Lugnet, by number of requests:

        49006   lego                 (duh!)
        17848   lugnet               (yup)
         5461   www.lego.com         (hmmm)
         2783   legos                (see below)
         2781   lego.com             (hmmm, take two)
         2604   www.lugnet.com       (URLs go in the location bar, kids)
         2192   spy bot              (interesting)
         1823   lugnet.com           (yet another one)
         1530   lego pirates         (arrh! everyone loves piracy!)
          991   cool site            (yeah, we should bring that back)
          847   cool games           (well, close)
          701   black seas barracuda (google -> an old fibblesnork page)
          647   lego com             (sheesh)
          617   lego creations       (people like MOCs)
          602   lego instructions    (I have nothing interesting to say)
          535   www.legoshop.com     (dot dot dot)
          527   lego games
          521   cool lego site of the week
          521   www lego com
          504   site of the week

    Lugnet doesn't show up in the top 100 search results for "legos".
    However, it's clear that many people are searching using this, because
    there's a lot of stuff like "pictures of legos" or "paradisa legos" or
    "star wars legos" further down the list.

However, searching for "Lego" on Google returns Lugnet as the fourth hit, right
after lego.com, lego.com/deu and legomindstorms.com. That's good! (The next few
are the Cool Lego Site of the Week, crynwr.com/lego-robotics/, and then the
BrickTestament!)

I guess the reason that "legos" doesn't return a Lugnet hit (until #102, in
which case it's refering to the legOS subgroup) is because by and large people
here know enough to not call the bricks "legos", and so if they make links to
Lugnet on their own home pages, they'll use a different word.

--
  David Schilling



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