State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

1. State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

   #1

   So, I've spent some time analyzing the traffic leading people to the citadel, and the search words specifically. Besides referring sites, Google is our primary source of new visitors, so what are our newcomers looking for?
   
   
   Top Ten Search Words leading to the citadel January -> March 2010
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   1. strolen
   2. strolen's citadel
   3. genital torture techniques
   4. native american torture methods
   5. religious ranks
   6. samurai ranking system
   7. american indian torture methods
   8. dead peppers strolen
   9. roman torture devices
   10. tavern names
   
   
   Top Ten Search Words leading to the citadel April -> June 2010
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   1.          strolen
   2. strolen's citadel
   3. baza the yellow priest
   4. religious ranks
   5. american indian torture methods 
   6. native american torture
   7. galder morstruck, carpet vendor and collector
   8. native american torture methods
   9. samurai ranking system
   10. ancient gamer
   
   
   :)
   
   Ignoring the users who search for Strolen and other citadel members, precious few reach us searching for roleplaying material. Try it yourself: Search for roleplaying, rpg plots, or whatever you can think of.
   
   My search results, at least, does not show the Citadel anywhere in the list.
   
   We do seem to be gaining a lot of new users from the torture loving crowd, however.  :lol:

2. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

   #2

   Well at least they are dedicated! :D

3. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

   #3

   http://strolen.com/viewing/4276
   
   Behold, the site's most popular sub!
   
   The 5 Room Dungeon seems to be the singlemost successful recruitment drive we've ever had. It has generated several hundreds hits every day.
   
   Great initiative!
   
   roleplayingtips.com is also one of our primary sources of new visitors, though the 5 Room Dungeon Impact seems to be wearing of.
   
   We should do more co-op stuff like this!

4. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

   #4

   http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strolen.com/
   
   The citadel itself, and Redgre's 100 unique cities, have been reviewed on stumbleupon.com. Redgre's post has recently been reviewed, and as a result has gotten a huge amount of visits.
   
   I will task myself with reviewing select subs on stumbleupon.
   
   Any ideas?
   
   Hmmm... I think I will review a generic Murometz sub to begin with. That guy is popular, according to the statistics.

5. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

   #5

   Tells you what statistics know :P
   
   

6. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

   #6

   I did read this and am overjoyed at the attention. Haven't had time to really let it sink in then. Keyword issues for one I reckon. Need an SEO review. :)

7. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

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   January 2010 - August 2010, Traffic Sources in Numbers
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   1. google / organic 23,848 hits   

8. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

   #8

   Must correct myself: Stumbleupon has for a long time been a very important source of visits. More important than roleplayingtips.com.

9. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

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   Added "Webmaster Tools" from google to the analytics. Data is being gathered. I suppose it is supposed to be a little more detailed than analytics or something.
   
   shrug
   
   https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard?hl=en&siteUrl=http://www.strolen.com/
   
   If I gave you access to analytics, guessing you should have access to this too.

10. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

    #10

    Nope. Google purges the URL, removing the parameters. Access to Analytics doesn't automagically grant access to Webmaster Tools.
    

11. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

    #11

    OK. Fixed. Added you and manfred.

12. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

    #12

    Any other Admin can have access to the stats too. Just let me know you are interested and tell me your gmail address. Will give you access to the site's analytics stats and the other webmaster thing that I don't know how to work.

13. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

    #13

    I like metrics :)
    

14. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

    #14

    Granted!

15. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

    #15

    Metrics are teh awesome

16. Re: State of the Citadel - Google Search Terms Leading to Us.

    #16

    Jeeesuuus. It is like Webmaster Tools and Analytics live in two separate universes.
    
    I use blogger. Blogger's stats are also widely diversing from analytics.

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