traffic question

[killaclown]

hi all,

Can anyone help me understand.

am i right in thinking?

traffic = people visiting your site???

overture = people searching for a term???

ranking = links on your site relating to that search term???


bit confused, trying to get my head it all.

i searched "cheap ski holidays" in google, thinking www.cheapskiholidays.com may come as ranked number 1. but it never.

i then typed it into the address bar. the page came up and it nothing to do with ski holidays.

am i right it wasnt ranked because it nothing to do with skiing holidays?

And if it had metioned the orginal search term "cheap or/and ski or/and holidays" once it may have been ranked?


any help would be great.


many thanks

bjk (killaclown55)

 

[charlie]

if anyone could crack the google code then they'd be rich. The name alone isn;t enough its mainly a matter of traffic and links to your site, though content and relevance also play a part

your definitions are near enough correct though

 

[Admin]

CheapSkiHolidays.com just shows the hosting company's parking page, so the SE will ignore it.

traffic = people visiting your site???

Yes, measured by the number of unique hits per day (a unique hit is an individual IP address used to identify a single site visitor to your site).

overture = people searching for a term???

Yes, Overture shows search terms and can be used to guage how often a site is looked up.

ranking = links on your site relating to that search term???

How well your site is thought of by the Search Engines

 

[killaclown]

hi,

is overture people typing the domain into the address bar or seaching the domain?

on a different thread it read

ebay.co.uk overture of 559,258


so is that typing the domain into the address bar? or search on a search engine?

many thanks

bjk

 

[domaingenius]

Almost certainly typing it into the search engine and searching for it,otherwise it would not register on overture.

DG