MSN Live Sending Strange Referrers?
November 8th, 2007
Written By: Adam Sussman
At first I thought I was going crazy. One of my sites is getting flooded with referral traffic from MSN for a keywords which I rank well with in Google. I follow the URL back to MSN Live with the keyword already embedded and my site is nowhere to be found.
Today I logged back into my analytics tools (I am using IndexTools and Google Analytics) to find that there has been an explosion of new hits coming from MSN. Still, when I try to track back the source with the corresponding keyword I am not able to find any reference to my sites in the organic serps.
Its not as if the keywords coming to my site are not relevant. These are keywords I know I rank well for with Google. Its so strange…
November 9th, 2007 19:09
Shandy, I’ve had similar experiences. I’ve been getting supposed traffic from very general terms like “music”, and though I follow the link to the query, my site is no where to be found.
After discussing the issue with a fellow old man by the sea (I hope he sees this lol), he mentioned that these sites are not coming from MSN search pages per se, but that are sites are coming from a category of a search query and our analytics are showing us something else. These are probably re-searchs, or suggestions of searches? He could probably explain it better than me actually.