Random Traffic – literally!

by seoibiza on 17, March, 2009

So a few days ago while trying to get our collective heads around the perennial grey toolbar nonsense we noticed that a page we had never really taken seriously, and had pretty much neglected and forgotten about,  that was originally meant as a place to exchange links from if ever required, had suddenly gone from grey to PR4, (as many other of our pages have, and do, back and forth, on an ongoing basis)

So as it’s called Random & Miscellaneous, we threw a load of mates, SEO & Ibiza miscellaneous links in there and found a “random” picture we liked and slung that in too..

random encounter

Not 3 days later Woopra just suddenly started lighting up with untold Google image hits for “random” and various permutations of the word, “random pictures” random images etc..

random traffic

And when we looked we’re like #2 or #3 on most checks, for the word.

random images

How random.. :)

What we can definitely deduce from this then, is that grey or PR4, there’s real pagerank-a-plenty flowing through this page, because you don’t appear overnight at the top of 35 million page, one word keyword searches without any at all.

In our experience image traffic is much like social media spikes, they rarely read more than the one page, most are probably after the image for their own blogging or something anyway..

And cue another few million link exchange request emails..

(NO THANK YOU, WE DONT DO LINK EXCHANGES!!)

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Trinity 18, March, 2009 at 1:24 pm

Is that you in the picture!! My you have been working out!

Website Profit Formula 19, March, 2009 at 6:31 pm

Great post!
Thanks :)

seoibiza 19, March, 2009 at 9:23 pm

@ Trinity – that is the workout!!

@ “website profit formula” ..you’ve spelt guarantee wrong on your site.

Belajar Seo 21, March, 2009 at 8:17 pm

nice post..i find useful information here.

ShellMedia 10, April, 2009 at 8:35 pm

Came across this post as it was referenced in a thread on DP – Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting!

seoibiza 10, April, 2009 at 8:39 pm

Yo. welcome.

I rescued your comment from Akismet though, you might want to contact them and get your email address removed, – if you’ve been spammed off somewhere previous, all future comments anywhere else will just go straight to the bin.

its only that I saw you on Woopra and that you’d had a good look round and commented that I knew to look there.

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