1998 May: htaccess redirect caused expulsion from Infoseek

Several RedirectPermanent old location to new location had an unforeseen side effect: Expulsion from Infoseek. That's why we developt policies for secure site reorganization

Total referers found in referer log files from all our own domains, and design and seminar customers hosted on our server. This only counts visitors coming from a link or a search engine. This does not count repeated visitors from bockmarks and visitors typing direct the URL (from newspaper or so)17107 2 visitors per pixel
1www.infoseek.com2516
2av.yahoo.com1933
3www.altavista.digital.com1926
4search.excite.com1407
5netfind.aol.com970
6altavista.digital.com760
7av.yahoo.de627
8www.hotbot.com584
9www.fireball.de569
10altavista.telia.com547
11139.142.69.117522
12www.metacrawler.com302
13www.webcrawler.com260
14webcrawler.com252
15www.search.hotbot.com252
16guide-p.infoseek.com224
17www.eule.de188
18www.search.com173
19www.euroseek.net169
20newsgroups126
21www.pege.org125
22www.fury.de116
23ie4.altavista.digital.com107
24home.snap.com95
25www.et-info.com79
26www.mayer-carpets.org73
27other referers72
28tfc-charts2.w2d.com71
29search.yahoo.com71
30www.looksmart.com66
31www.aladin.de62
32www.altavistacanada.com61
33crawler.de53
34www.altavista.ca49
35www-sci.lib.uci.edu47
36infind.inference.com46
37www.kolibri.de42
38www.altavista.yellowpages.com.au40
39www.yahoo.com40
40meta.rrzn.uni-hannover.de35
41www.uni-muenster.de31
42www2.infoseek.com29
43www.lycos.com28
44av.yahoo.co.uk28
45www.markwelch.com27
46server1.anzwers.ozemail.net26
47www.lycos.de26
48server2.anzwers.ozemail.net23
49www.excite.de22
50guide.infoseek.com21
51altavista.looksmart.com20
52sear.ch19
53ms3.dogpile.com19
54home.interstat.net19
55www.goto.com19
56www.altavista.telia.com18
57focus.de18
58hotbot.com18
59athome.snap.com18
60server3.anzwers.ozemail.net17
61www.netguide.at17
62av.yahoo.fr17
63com.simplenet.com16
64fireball.de16
65www.cameronlaw.com16
66search.com15
67austria.intersearch.net14
68www.energie.ch14
69www.askjeeves.com14
70i-s-t.com14
71www.sear.ch13
72www3.infoseek.com13
73search5.metacrawler.com12
74jserv.rrzn.uni-hannover.de:808012
75altavista.skali.com.my11
76www.lotse.de11
77bs.yahoo.com11
78slip.net11
79search3.metacrawler.com10
80home.wxs.nl10
81lotse.de10
82www.warsitz-enterprises.com10
83www.100hot.com10
84www.solarserver.de10
85search1.metacrawler.com9
86altavistacanada.com9
87gte.snap.com9
88www.flash.net9
89salzburgs.com9
90207.82.250.2519
91www.mamma.com8
92people.frankfurt.netsurf.de8
93www.nlsearch.com8
94search8.metacrawler.com8
95www.mckinley.com8
96www.salzburg.at8
97www.northernlight.com8
98sprint.snap.com8
99www.oberlin.edu8
100..........other 253 referers together571



The most important part of web design: being found
advertising agency for search engine optimized web design
SEO searchengine optimization service
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1998: Business to business b2b brings more than consumer sites

We learned that a client with a business to business site with only 400 visitors a month can be extrem satisfied, while a high end consumer product site makes desperat with 4000.
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1998 April: referers stats searchengines top 100 hit parade

We show here only how many referers from what search engine. But students at our seminar get also a CD with all the queries to search engines leading surfers to our sites.
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1998: Business to business b2b brings more than consumer sites

We learned that a client with a business to business site with only 400 visitors a month can be extrem satisfied, while a high end consumer product site makes desperat with 4000.
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1998 June: referers statistic searchengines top 100 hit parade

After we solved our problem with Infoseek, we started to index again all our pages new at Infoseek. The stat shows the new page bonus typical at Infoseek 1998.
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1999: Combine search engine skills with layout and design

A seminar delivered to a famouse advertising agency was no one way road. While they learned all the necessary search engine skills, I learned much in design and layout.
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