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Using Wikipedia To Reveal Web Traffic Data

Went Hot: March 14, 2008 - 4:55 pm
Posted By: PhilippLenssen 215 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google

> Have you been searching for Jesus? On Google,
> Wikipedia ranks first for that search. How much
> is that first place ranking worth? According to
> Wikipedia's public traffic stats, about 14k page
> views on a typical day, and 19.3k on Christmas.

Jonathan, I don't understand, it seems the 14k are the overall traffic stats for that page, and not just the referrer traffic? In other words, it's not the value of the ranking on Google on its own, but the value of all links to this page combined, and we know Wikipedia is linked from all over the place (hence the Google ranking, as we know Google ranks based on backlinks, among other attributes)...

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from patrickaltoft 215 days ago #

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Where is this data from?

from thekohser 215 days ago #

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Jonathan -- nice article! But, be honest, were you inspired to write this based on my post yesterday at the Wikipedia Review, about traffic stats on articles I've created in Wikipedia?

You know I'm a data junkie -- keep articles like this coming!

from Jehochman 215 days ago #

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Thanks, thekohser. No, I did not see your article because I was trying to figure out my travel plans for SMX Social.

Patrickaltoft, the link is http://stats.grok.se/.