I am a numbers person. So naturally, when my oes tsetnoc entry plummeted in the SERP’s after getting indexed and ranked in the #2 position in five days, I decided to do a little analysis. Of course, what initially started as a simple look at numbers turned into a relatively in-depth analysis.
Statistics as of September 21, 2009
The chart above includes oes tsetnoc sites that are similar to mine, in the sense that they are new domains (created after September 10th for this contest) and they are blogs.
This analysis looks at:
- Yahoo backlinks – total number of incoming links
- Yahoo .edu backlinks – number of incoming links from .edu sites
- Alexa Rank – determined by traffic (the lower the number, the more traffic)
- Google Indexed – number of pages indexed by Google
- Sitemap
- Google SERP – position in search results for oes tsetnoc
- Keyword Density – percent of keywords vs. number of words on homepage
- Blog Posts – total number of blog posts
- Blog Comments – total number of blog comments and pingbacks/trackbacks
- Home Stumbles – number of reviews on StumbleUpon for main homepage
- Home Reddits – number of Reddit votes for main homepage
- Home Mixx – number of Mixx votes for main homepage
- Technorati – number of blog reactions on Technorati
- Total Diggs – total number of Digg votes for both homepage and individual posts
- Total Delicious – total number of Delicious bookmarks for both homepage and individual posts
So what does this information tell me? Aside from missing the main goal of being ranked highest in Google SERP’s, this site seems to be doing really good. I have the highest Alexa ranking (therefore the highest traffic), the most blog comments, and most social mentions (with exception to Twitter). My keyword density is not the highest or lowest. My backlinks aren’t too few or many, but are a far cry from the top ranked site in this contest.
Oddly enough, I was actually worried that building too many backlinks too quickly would possibly get the site penalized, so I started slowly. But considering how my site is doing on all other counts in comparison to the SERP, it seems that may have happened anyway – especially since it made the jump from #2 to #175 in 6 days. Of course, if this site were penalized, it seems like my article from this site, What is Oes Tsetnoc, wouldn’t be #47. So maybe it is just the weakness of the .us domain in comparison to newer entries?
Here are some other statistics for this site for September 10th – September 20th, collected by Google Analytics.
650 Visits
1258 Pageviews
1.94 Pages per visit
71.54% Bounce Rate
2:40 Avg Time on Site
61.85% New Visits
StumbleUpon
Digg
Sphinn
FriendFeed
BlogCatalog
Kikolani
Interestingwebs.blogspot.com
Oestsetnoc.com
Oes-tsetnoc1.blogspot.com
PotPolitics
DoFollow
And finally, here are some other rankings for items I have created related to oes tsetnoc.
- oestsetnoc on Twitter ranks #10.
- Oes Tsetnoc on BlogCatalog ranks #14.
- Fetching Friday on Kikolani mentioning Oes Tsetnoc ranks #15.
- Oes Tsetnoc group on Facebook ranks #64.
- Oes Tsetnoc on Google Profiles ranks #147.
- Oes Tsetnoc on Squidoo ranks #157.
Resources
The following free tools were used for the chart analysis. I think that any webmaster, blog owner, and of course, contestant in the oes tsetnoc contest should find these useful.
- Alexa - simply add yourdomain.com to the end of http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ to see your current Alexa rank (ie. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/oestsetnoc.us).
- Quarkbase - simply add yourdomain.com to the end of http://www.quarkbase.com/ to see a variety of statistics, including total number of Diggs & Delicious bookmarks pointing to your site (ie. http://www.quarkbase.com/oestsetnoc.us) – also may help with quicker site indexing.
- Keyword Density – compare the keyword density between two websites. Includes breakdown of usage of keywords in title tags, meta description and more. Very useful in looking at how a competitor uses keywords for optimization.
- Social Media for Firefox – this Firefox extension allows you to see the number of social bookmarks / votes for the page you are viewing. Includes Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Mixx, Sphinn & Bit.ly.
- SEO Firefox Extensions – SEO Quake and SEO for Firefox will show you a variety of useful information about the website you are currently viewing, including the number of Yahoo backlinks, pages indexed by Google, Google PageRank and more. SEO Quake will even show you these numbers for search results. I suggest using the Load Parameters on Request option for SEO Quake – too many queries to the search engines may get you banned for a while. (Usually it only lasts for a day – you’ll know it’s starting when Google captchas you for a regular search or Yahoo locks you out of Site Explorer).
Your Thoughts
SEO experts, Oes Tsetnoc contestants and webmasters – what are your thoughts on my Google SERP compared to the other statistics?
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Quarkbase looks to be an excellent tool – thank you so much for introducing me to that! I think it has given me some areas I need to get to work on: getting my site bookmarked a bit more in delicious and maybe even working to have a better digg presence once again.
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Fantastic list of resources.
not to sure about the Conduit bar.
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I think oes tsetnocs is first since yesterday but on your list it is said that I am 5th. Do you have time to recheck I want to know is it me or I am really 5th.
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Thanks for this post. I’m still fairly new to blogging and I’ve been in search of information on tracking my site’s performance. You’ve been very helpful.
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i think i’m the first yet when my site from US check it, it says i’m also the fifth why is this? the google search link in the contest is as of no use then if this is happening.
Question about the chart: did you pick the particular statistics to look at? I’m wondering what the relevance of “total diggs” and “home mixx” and “home reddit” are exactly. I never thought of submitting my home URL to mixx or reddit like that.
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These resources are worth looking at.. being a newbee in eh industry, your posts helps me to learn at great pace…thanks for sharing.
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Stats are the defacto of a good webmaster in my point of view and I am very interested in the way this is running! As for ‘SEO’ add on for Firefox, I will try it since I am using ‘Qurik SearchStatus’ for Firefox which display is easily configured to many things including ‘PageRank’, ‘Alexa Rank. ‘Compete’ & ‘mozRank’ too beside other essential SEO tool.
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since I am using ‘Qurik SearchStatus’ for Firefox which display is easily configured to many things including ‘PageRank’
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