Aug 03 2007

WordPress Search Engine Referrals

Published by at 5:56 pm under wordpress

Wondering if anyone else is seeing search engine referrals under general referrers rather than “Search Engine Terms”? Didn’t see any announcement from WordPress.

Referrers

Search Engine Terms

It makes the referrers list rather long, but on the other hand you can see exactly which search engine was used and the exact term, which is handy.

6 responses so far

6 Responses to “WordPress Search Engine Referrals”

  1. # Markkon 03 Aug 2007 at 8:30 pm

    Yeah I noticed the same thing today. It’s interesting to see exactly which search engine is being used, but the “Search Engine Terms” section is much easier to read. I wonder if they plan to scrap “Search Engine Terms” entirely?

  2. # Megon 04 Aug 2007 at 11:57 am

    Hi Markk

    Seems to be back to normal… odd.

  3. # goldcoasteron 04 Aug 2007 at 8:26 pm

    I noticed that today. Actually yesterday and today are like this on the free wordpress.com.
    Can someone tell me what the mail ones refer to? Meg, above you have a yahoo mail and I get them plus live and gmail – does tha mean links in someones email?

  4. # Megon 04 Aug 2007 at 8:33 pm

    Hi Goldcoaster

    Yes, I imagine there could be a number of reasons – that they are clicks from your email subscribers, someone else’s email subscribers (who have linked to you), or that someone has linked to one of your posts in an email they’ve sent to someone.

    I think there are also RSS to email services around too (haven’t really looked into it, but from what I gather, it will turn your RSS feeds into email).

    Does that help?

  5. # Colin Campbellon 05 Aug 2007 at 3:10 pm

    I have never really looked into this stuff. How do you check this?

  6. # Megon 05 Aug 2007 at 3:29 pm

    Hi Colin

    On the WordPress dashboard there is an area that shows you some basic statistics, such as what sites are referring visitors to your site.

    To my knowledge, that’s not integrated in with blogger blogs. To get that kind of detail you’d probably have to set up Google Analytics (you get a code which you paste on your blog somewhere so analytics can track it).

    See https://www.google.com/analytics for more information.