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bubbles19518
June 8th, 2007, 08:09 AM
Okay, so I own a myspace site, http://myspace-source.com. Traffic has been slow mostly because I haven't had the time needed to give it a good design and put some promotion into it.

I rank well for a few keywords, and go through my SE refers every couple of days. Recently I've seen more and more people finding me from the term "Myspace Source.com" or "MySpace Source". Its funny, I'm not even #1 for the terms, I'm like 5th or 6th.

I was wondering if anyone else had anything like this where visitors were searching for your site specifically with similar keywords?
rize
June 8th, 2007, 08:11 AM
uhm maybe cuz they found a layout they want and u had ur sitename on it and they searched for it hehe :)
bubbles19518
June 8th, 2007, 08:14 AM
I don't do layouts, I do rank on the first page for "profile stealer", but all i add is a link in the about me section of a page.
rize
June 8th, 2007, 08:16 AM
how bout glitters?
Jen
June 8th, 2007, 08:16 AM
Maybe they forgot the "re" in front of source, LOL
jeremy860
June 8th, 2007, 08:29 AM
Oh yes, All day I notice search strings from google that contain mydomain.net

Its kinda cool knowing people are searching directly for your site. :biggrin:
geg2
June 8th, 2007, 08:29 AM
There is no way you can tell what someone was searching for. Here are some general possibilities:

1) People may have already visited your site and want to return. They don't use the URL address bar but by type in the domain name in Google.

2) People are simply typing in "keywords" or "keywords .com" in Google. Since your domain is keywords.com, it tends to rank for that particular search.

3) People may have seen another person on Myspace using your stuff and noticed the domain name. They type it in Google instead of using the URL address bar.

4) Word of mouth about your website.
webbom
June 8th, 2007, 08:38 AM
In fact that is a way a lot of people search. In the domain name buying industry one of the things to check when buying a domain is how many people search for the domain name directly on a search engine.

For example look at http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ and search for myspace.com or your domain and see how many people searched for that last month.