Traffic Reduction?

Has anyone noticed a general reduction in net traffic the last six months or
so? Maybe it's just my market segment (business products - project
management software)

- If I use the Yahoo/Overture keyword tool, it seems that the monthly
searches for all my keywords have been steadily decreasing

- I seem to be paying more for clicks on Adwords, to keep the same position
and getting the same CTR, but the number of impressions and consequently
clicks is down.

- Visitors to my website seems to be down some although my SERPs are the
same.

The llion's share of my business is from the US so maybe Katrina had
something to do with it.

Is there some website that provides a measure of overall web traffic?

Thanks,

Bob Kochem
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__/ [Bob Kochem] on Wednesday 07 December 2005 12:28 \__

Has anyone noticed a general reduction in net traffic the last six months
or so? Maybe it's just my market segment (business products - project
management software)

- If I use the Yahoo/Overture keyword tool, it seems that the monthly
searches for all my keywords have been steadily decreasing

- I seem to be paying more for clicks on Adwords, to keep the same position
and getting the same CTR, but the number of impressions and consequently
clicks is down.

- Visitors to my website seems to be down some although my SERPs are the
same.

The llion's share of my business is from the US so maybe Katrina had
something to do with it.

Is there some website that provides a measure of overall web traffic?

Thanks,

Bob Kochem
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| MinuteMan Systems - Project Management Software |
| info (AT) minuteman-systems (DOT) com http://www.minuteman-systems.com/ |
| PO Box 152, Belmont, MA 02478 USA (617)489-5639 |
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Overall Web traffic is on the rise as more people get connected and the
available bandwidth worldwide increases owing to infrastructure. There are
software tools (commercial) that can tell you something about volume of
queries for an individual search term. You may find these useful, but per-
haps utterly unnecessary.

A solution you might want to embrace otherwise are inaccurate measures
like Alexa ranks. You can see history of site ranks (i.e. approximate
traffic) to see if you /competition/ in particular has suffered from simi-
lar downward trend.

here are some good starting points for you:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details?ur...an-systems.com

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...an-systems.com

Best wishes,

Roy

PS - ignore the numbers altogether as they are almost meaningless and
scale badly. Look at the fluctuation and the /trends/ instead.

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"Bob Kochem" <info (AT) minuteman-systems (DOT) com> wrote

Has anyone noticed a general reduction in net traffic the last six months
or so?

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No I haven't. I have gained more. Sorry, I couldn't be more help.


Stacey