How long is your search long tail?

Originally Posted by zems

Search sent 77,877 total visits via 37,968 keywords

84% more than last month

I have now Threads: 15.671, Posts: 42.972, Members: 15.598

Search sent 106,993 total visits via 51,116 keywords


I have now Threads: 20.836, Posts: 56.732, Members: 23.525[/QUOTE]

Are there any additional stats available to see how useful these long tail visitors are.

I'm purchasing vBSEO soon as vB4 goes gold and I'm able to download vBSEO compatible version and I'm just wondering how much of this long tail hype is actually good for forums. I've seen debate that its completely useless as the majority of the traffic is one stop and then never returns and has a high bounce rate. If so then whats the point? The arguement that a "visitor is a visitor" isn't a good one to me, I want traffic that converts and not to waste bandwidth on garbage hits merely for stats to say "I get 1048390 hits a month from SE's"

There's a lot more to SEO & success then just sending hits, a monkey can do that. But if the traffic thats being generated isn't converting and isn't staying on the site, then it's a useless metric. If anyone is as kind to post their bounce rate for the long tail results and if the visitors are returning it'd really be appreciated so I can know what to expect with vBSEO and the long tail.

Nov 15, 2009 - Dec 15, 2009

Search sent 1,409,376 total visits via 535,428 keywords


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Threads: 176,469, Posts: 2,248,101, Members: 291,067

Most users ever online was 31,241, 06-09-2009

Search sent 15,687 total visits via 7,493 keywords

Search sent 548,982 total visits via 258,923 keywords

I'm guessing thats alright.

17 Nov 2009 - 17 Dec 2009

Search sent 236,209 total visits via 151,935 keywords ,

304,555 visits entered the site through 27,444 pages .

last month:-
Search sent 45,180 total visits via 11,777 keywords

I'd say I've got a pretty long tail

Originally Posted by SuperDuperSEO

Are there any additional stats available to see how useful these long tail visitors are.

I'm purchasing vBSEO soon as vB4 goes gold and I'm able to download vBSEO compatible version and I'm just wondering how much of this long tail hype is actually good for forums. I've seen debate that its completely useless as the majority of the traffic is one stop and then never returns and has a high bounce rate. If so then whats the point? The arguement that a "visitor is a visitor" isn't a good one to me, I want traffic that converts and not to waste bandwidth on garbage hits merely for stats to say "I get 1048390 hits a month from SE's"

There's a lot more to SEO & success then just sending hits, a monkey can do that. But if the traffic thats being generated isn't converting and isn't staying on the site, then it's a useless metric. If anyone is as kind to post their bounce rate for the long tail results and if the visitors are returning it'd really be appreciated so I can know what to expect with vBSEO and the long tail.

Now that REALLY depends on the website, but here are some useful stats from mine to show that these are fairly important:-

Visits
45,180
% of Site Total: 68.67%

Pages/Visit
9.18
Site Avg: 10.01

Avg. Time on Site
00:09:09
Site Avg: 00:10:25

% New Visits
39.46%
Site Avg: 34.46%
Bounce Rate
36.84%
Site Avg: 30.16%



I'd say from the above data (which is purely on search traffic) than long tail search is very very important (at least for me)

Originally Posted by rob

Now that REALLY depends on the website, but here are some useful stats from mine to show that these are fairly important:-

Visits
45,180
% of Site Total: 68.67%

Pages/Visit
9.18
Site Avg: 10.01

Avg. Time on Site
00:09:09
Site Avg: 00:10:25

% New Visits
39.46%
Site Avg: 34.46%
Bounce Rate
36.84%
Site Avg: 30.16%



I'd say from the above data (which is purely on search traffic) than long tail search is very very important (at least for me)

can you post a screen shot of the long tail stats please. You can block out your keywords and hopefully you do as they aren't important, I just want to see the stats for the long tail of things and not so much the main keywords)

Thanks for taking time to reply, hopefully once my pending paypal balance clears I'll be a vBSEO customer

Can you explain how to block out your main keywords?

nevermind, i was being thick...

Long tail only:-

Visits
32,265
% of Site Total: 49.04%

Pages/Visit
7.28
Site Avg: 10.01

Avg. Time on Site
00:07:23
Site Avg: 00:10:25

% New Visits
49.79%
Site Avg: 34.46%

Bounce Rate
47.98%
Site Avg: 30.16%


Worth having? HELL YEAH

I'm a little disappointed with my progress over the last year and a half....

Originally Posted by briansol

google sent 168,626 total visits via 117,642 keywords
google sent 168,626 total visits via 22,686 landing pages

google sent 206,236 total visits via 141,033 keywords
google sent 206,336 total visits via 25,538 landing pages



Search sent 219,353 total visits via 149,981 keywords
Search sent 219,458 total visits via 26,951 landing pages


a year and a half, and not much gain. I would have hoped for these numbers to be much higher by now.

But, it's still a positive progression. My niche is basically dead. There's no 'new' stuff really happening, so its the same questions rehashed over and over again, so the lack of a good qty increase makes sense.




Visits

219,353
% of Site Total: 84.72%


Pages/Visit

1.80
Site Avg: 2.13 (-15.45%)



Avg. Time on Site

00:01:50
Site Avg: 00:02:13 (-17.86%)


% New Visits

67.01%
Site Avg: 65.61% (2.14%)


Bounce Rate

79.19%
Site Avg: 76.34% (3.73%)

Hmm, so where do I exactly do I find this search metric in Google analytics?

Search sent X total visits via Y keywords

My forum is not standalone, it's a feature of the main website, so I'd like to measure this for the forum alone excluding the traffic the rest of the site brings in.

Cant figure out where to find the stats.

traffic sources -> search engines ->
Change source drop down to keyword

Originally Posted by sherwood

Hmm, so where do I exactly do I find this search metric in Google analytics?

Search sent X total visits via Y keywords

My forum is not standalone, it's a feature of the main website, so I'd like to measure this for the forum alone excluding the traffic the rest of the site brings in.

Cant figure out where to find the stats.

same to my forum
what i do is

create profile in google analytics and put that analytics code in forum forum.doamin.com
and create another google analyticsprofile and put another google code to anohter subdomain like xxx.domain.com

will have 2 stats