Case study: vBSEO on GamingVidz.com Week 12
Here are the numbers for Week 12 - the exciting three month mark - on my ongoing case study of vBSEO's affects on forum search engine indexing and sending traffic from search engines. We saw a little drop in Google's numbers this week, but a gain with Yahoo. Because this is a month mark in the case study I have also provided graphs from Google Analytics that highlight the traffic sources for GamingVidz. First lets start with the search engine results numbers for the week:
site:gamingvidz.com (Google) down 9,000 to 217,000
site:gamingvidz.com (Yahoo) down 1,112 to 24,256
site:gamingvidz.com (MSN) up 6 to 135
This week showed downward fluctuations that I'm not too concerned about after seeing the monumental gains from recent updates. The real pupose of this case study is to see how much search engine traffic is sent to GamingVidz.com with vBSEO's help. The following graphs are from the "new" Google Analytics and highlight the various traffic sources and their share of the pie graph for GamingVidz. As you can see as a whole direct traffic has gone down; however, this always occurs on GamingVidz.com as the summer months bring less time inside watching videos and more time outside or on vacation for my members. With that in mind, here are the numbers thus far (pay attention to the search engine traffic chunk):
April 2nd to April 9th (Pre vBSEO installation - only one week of data)
April 10th to May 7th (1 month after vBSEO installation)
May 8th to June 4th (2 months after vBSEO installation)
June 5th to July 2nd (3 months after vBSEO installation)
Twelve weeks ago GamingVidz started with only 34,300 results and in three months vBSEO increased search engine results for a site:gamingvidz.com search by 173,700. It took GamingVidz nearly two years to reach 34,300 results and in only three months vBSEO has increased search engine results by more than 5x what we started with. As the graphs also show there has a substantial increase in organic search engine traffic as well! I know I've said it before, but I couldn't be more pleased with my vBSEO license purchases and I recommend purchasing one for your vBulletin forums as well.
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