Case Study: vBSEO on GamingVidz.com Week 16
*Side note, I meant to post this earlier on August 3rd, but new computer woes, server transfers and vacation threw me off so here it is now.*
I can’t even believe it’s been four months since I installed vBSEO on GamingVidz.com and started this series of posts on vBSEO’s affects on forum search engine indexing and sending traffic from search engines. Before we get the the Google analytics graphs let’s cover the SERPS since last update:
site:gamingvidz.com (Google) up 6,000 to 209,000
site:gamingvidz.com (Yahoo) down 2,234 to 24,877
site:gamingvidz.com (MSN) down 39 to 102
Overall, I think the first few month’s explosive growth has leveled off. I’m going to post over in vBSEO’s forums to see if this is to be expected or not. Either way, as I’ve said before the real pupose of this case study is to see how much search engine traffic is sent to GamingVidz.com with vBSEO’s help. Again, 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, on vacation etc. for my members. With that in mind, here are the numbers from earliest to latest 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)
July 3rd to August 3rd (4 months after vBSEO installation)
Sixteen weeks ago GamingVidz started with only 34,300 results and in four months vBSEO increased search engine results for a site:gamingvidz.com search of 209,000 results. It took GamingVidz nearly two years to reach 34,300 results and in four months vBSEO has increased search engine results by about 6x 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.
[...] Traffic from search engines is still increasing by my SERPS seem to have gone down a bit. Check out month 4 [...]