it's a law of diminishing returns. 75% is google, 15% is yahoo, 5% is AOL, etc etc.
and it's not 25% of your potential audience you're losing. it's 25% of people coming to your site do so from SE's other than Google. it's like saying if you advertised your product only on ITV, none of the Channel4 audience will buy it - not true, just they won't see the adverts while they're watching Channel4. they can still find it through other ways, or if they decide to switch over to ITV at some point, as they're likely to do, then they might still find it. Duncan Cumming IT Manager http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0141 575 9700 Fax: 0141 575 9600 Creative solutions in a technical world ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your domain names online from: http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk Reseller options available! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rich Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> go.com> cc: Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS 02/10/2003 14:33 Please respond to dev > true, but i'm seeing sites where at least 75% of SE traffic > is Google or Google affiliates. so that's a quarter of the audience that isn't. yikes. That's a lot. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 October 2003 12:12 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS > > > > true, but i'm seeing sites where at least 75% of SE traffic > is Google or Google affiliates. As long as you're sorted for > Google, you should do ok. I suspect this might be truer for > smaller or new sites. Large sites start to get a lot of > incoming links from all kinds of other sources that can > account for plenty of traffic. IMHO. > > > Duncan Cumming > IT Manager > > http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: 0141 575 9700 > Fax: 0141 575 9600 > > Creative solutions in a technical world > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Get your domain names online from: http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk > Reseller options available! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > Rich Wild > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > go.com> cc: > > Subject: RE: [ > cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS > 02/10/2003 > > 12:02 > > Please > > respond to > > dev > > > > > > > > > cool, but the point still stands that a lot of traffic from > Search engines does not come from Google. > > It would be a mistake to not optimise your site for those, as > it would be a mistake to only optimise your site for MS > explorer 6 - both ways, you're missing out on potential traffic. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 02 October 2003 11:59 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS > > > > > > > > yeah, i know what you meant, but i was trying to make the > point that > > Google's the only one that's really counted for quite a > long while. > > expect it to remain so, as i've not yet seen anything to > challenge it. > > some are technically equivalent, but simply don't have the massive > > userbase that Google has got. unless they really mess > things up, or > > MSN come up with an amazing search (possible) they aren't likely > > to lose that. > > > > > > Duncan Cumming > > IT Manager > > > > http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tel: 0141 575 9700 > > Fax: 0141 575 9600 > > > > Creative solutions in a technical world > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Get your domain names online from: > http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk > > Reseller options available! > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > Rich Wild > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > > "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > go.com> cc: > > > > Subject: RE: [ > > cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS > > 02/10/2003 > > > > 11:54 > > > > Please > > > > respond to > > > > dev > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > no silly, how long will google be on top for? > > > > It's a mistake to forget the other Ses. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: 02 October 2003 11:52 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS > > > > > > > > > > > > 5 years and counting > > > > > > > > > Duncan Cumming > > > IT Manager > > > > > > http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Tel: 0141 575 9700 > > > Fax: 0141 575 9600 > > > > > > Creative solutions in a technical world > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Get your domain names online from: > > http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk > > > Reseller options available! > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rich Wild > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > > > "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > go.com> cc: > > > > > > Subject: RE: [ > > > cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS > > > 02/10/2003 > > > > > > 11:50 > > > > > > Please > > > > > > respond to > > > > > > dev > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And google really is the only one that counts now > > > > > > but for how long? > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Snake Hollywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: 02 October 2003 11:48 > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS > > > > > > > > > > > > And google really is the only one that counts now > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Sent: 02 October 2003 11:45 > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > he might be using the technique well, but the site isn't even > > > > > indexed on Google. is the purpose of doing this to > > > improve search > > > > > engine listing, or just to make your URL look cool? Maybe > > > he's just > > > > > launched it or something and hasn't got round to actually > > > submitting > > > > > it to the engines? > > > > > > > > > > Personally I've never felt the need to bother with it, as > > > Google can > > > > > index your site with URL parameters anyway. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Duncan Cumming > > > > > IT Manager > > > > > > > > > > http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk > > > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Tel: 0141 575 9700 > > > > > Fax: 0141 575 9600 > > > > > > > > > > Creative solutions in a technical world > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > Get your domain names online from: > > > > http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk > > > > > Reseller options available! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Stephen Pope" > > > > > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > rv.org.uk> cc: > > > > > > > > > > Subject: > > > > > RE: [ cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS > > > > > 02/10/2003 11:39 > > > > > > > > > > Please respond to > > > > > > > > > > dev > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sure thing .. a friend of mine has written a site called > > > > > www.urbangearguide.com which uses this technique very > > > well. Im just > > > > > waiting to hear from him on how he did it .. but I'm sure > > > its just > > > > > using apache .. I heard this is much easier to do in > > > Apache 2 but we > > > > > all still run 1.3 as standard so my quest continues ! > > > > > > > > > > Anything I find I'll let everyone know ! > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Aidan Whitehall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Sent: 02 October 2003 11:34 > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] SearchEngine Safe URLS > > > > > > > > > > > Yup .. I was gonna use mod_rewrite .. but I was asking if > > > > > anyone had > > > > > > any tutorials on using mod_rewrite to accomplish > this task :�) > > > > > > > > > > Stephen, if you find anything half-way decent on > > mod_rewrite, can > > > > > you post the URL? 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