The Power of Google
As USA Today reported recently, placement in Google search results can make a very big difference for many businesses.
I’ve seen this in my own site. If you search Google for “J2ME”, you’ll see two Sun pages listed #1 and #2, then my J2ME Archive is #3.
What does this get me? Looking at the data from a particular day (I chose 10 February 2004), I see that 13.6% of my referrals came from google.com/search. This was 2nd only to visitors with no referrer (46.4%), who presumably came to my site from bookmarks. The remaining eight of the top ten referrers paled by comparison (see below for full dump of the stats), and even then several were Google localized sites (India, Canada, UK) so we really should probably include them in the overall Google referral total too.
The Power of Google compels you, indeed!
| Rank | Referrer | Visitors | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | (no referral) | 2,430 | 46.4% |
| 2. | google.com/search | 711 | 13.6% |
| 3. | yahoo.com/search | 159 | 3% |
| 4. | y365.com/resources.htm | 142 | 2.7% |
| 5. | midlet.org/links.jsp | 91 | 1.7% |
| 6. | google.co.in/search | 86 | 1.6% |
| 7. | www.google.ca/search | 72 | 1.4% |
| 8. | sun.com/techtopics/mobility/learn/ | 68 | 1.3% |
| 9. | javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi | 57 | 1.1% |
| 10. | google.co.uk/search | 55 | 1.1% |
