Effect of Infoseek on hit rate, ( an experiment)

<ian@iand.demon.co.uk> ((<ian@iand.demon.co.uk>))
Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:34:36 -0800

In message <v02130507ad37e3313049@[205.199.66.3]>, Internet Marketing
Discussion List <internet-marketing@popco.com> writes
<i>> Infoseek is currently getting over 25</i>
<i>>million hits on our servers every day, so the top of the scale for most</i>
<i>>visited sites is considerably higher than Glenn's estimate.</i>
<i>></i>
This is just a little note because I have recently carried out an
accidental experiment. The original idea was to see how long it took for
the search engines to react to an update, and the effect of that on my
hits.

Just before Christmas my site was getting about 300-500 people a week,
with weekly log files of 300-400K.

I revamped the site, notified all the main search engines, and waited.

Infoseek reacted first, with my revamped site appearing at the start of
the New Year. My access rate more than doubled that week, and is now
running at more than 900 people a week with logs now over 1MB.

Since neither Lycos nor Altavista, ( which I assume are the other most
important search engines) have yet logged the changes, and I did no
other marketing , I think that the blame can be laid at the feet of
Infoseek, bless their little cotton socks.

Interestingly, in the past when I had been given good notices in the
media my hit rate would rise 50-100%, and then drop back to a little. So
far however the current trend is still very much upwards. This might
imply that online profile is more important for hits than offline. ( Or,
when budgets are limited, that online should be prioritised).

Anyone found any Lycos only or Altavista only effects?
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