How is alta vista for you?
 

I know it's a shit search engine, but it seems like we are getting a lot of traffic from them these days all of a sudden. Also, we are totally dominating the keywords for seemingly whatever we want. Did something just happen at AV that would have caused such a flux of listings and traffic all of a sudden?

Anyone?

It's fucked up.

are you doing ppc? that might be it

Never got much hits from AV since 1999 . Back then it was real fucking good . PK was first for word sex for a long while .

No PPC... I mean it just spidered the shit out my stuff and is turning in mad hits.

AV sends me a few K a day of nice secondary traffic. None of my pages that are out there at the moment have ever been optimized for AV but the Google optimization I do seems to do pretty well.

Rorschach, I agree that the google optimizing seems to fit the AV system well too, I just don't know why it picked up so many pages and ranked them so well so suddenly.

how many hits you lot getting from AV, daily?

I don't know anything about what AV's doing at the moment, but I've had the same thing in the past, where my new stuff has been spidered in a rush and it zooms to the top of the serps, and I've had pages and pages of my own stuff listed. It's almost seems like a freshbot, because after a while the stuff drops to more reasonable positions and the traffic stabilizes at a lower level.

its great

Several k a day in the past, but so far today... Like 5 to 6 k more than usual.

Nope, Percentage wise its in the same spot it was yesterday for me. Its bot did crawl like crazy the past few days though.


Google 39%
Yahoo 16.8%
Google (Images) 11.2%
Unknown search engines 7%
MSN 5.2%
AltaVista 4.6%
AOL 2.9%
Jubii 2.6%
Dogpile 1.3%
AllTheWeb 1.2%
Excite 1.1%
MetaCrawler (Metamoteur) 0.9%
Ask Jeeves 0.8%
Netscape 0.5%
ix quick 0.5%
Earth Link 0.4%
WebCrawler 0.4%
Lycos 0.4%
Hotbot 0.3%
Voila 0.2%
Overture 0.2%
InfoSpace 0.2%
Origo-Vizsla 0.1%
DMOZ 0.1%
Tiscali 0.1%
Mamma 0.1%
Go2Net (Metamoteur) 0.1%
AOL (fr) 0%
Szukaj 0%
Baidu 0%
Fireball 0%
Teoma 0%
Freeserve 0%
Search.com 0%
metacrawler.de 0%
Virgilio 0%
AOL (de) 0%

I need more SE traffic...:(

But does it convert?

I haven't used it for over 5 yrs!

jDOG