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10/09/09 11:33PM  |
Over the last few months, we have really been studying the web traffic we get to our site. We have discovered that there are a lot of search spiders/robots that are surfing the site to index our pages in search engines (like Google, Yahoo & Bing). This is a good thing, because it will get your ArtWanted.com portfolio ranked higher in the search engine pages. However, there is one problem. Often these robots will record a hit to your portfolio images, when it was not "technically" a real person looking at your artwork. In the last week, we have changed the tracking of your portfolio, so that these robots/spiders will no longer record a "hit" to your images or portfolio. While this may decrease the number of hits some of you see on your stats reports, we feel that it's a more accurate number to report to you. Keep in mind that this does not mean that fewer people are looking at your art, only that we are filtering out the automated bots that scan our site daily. On a related note, the research we have been doing is in preparation for some new stats reports that will be coming out soon. Stay tuned...
ArtWanted.com Staff
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10/14/09 2:37AM  |
the new. 'real ' number will be very sobering..... i think lots of artists will be shocked to discover that the traffic isn't human....
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10/15/09 11:57AM  |
I agree - my hits have dropped like a stone!!
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10/16/09 3:38AM  |
Same here! I shall have to stop congratulating myself:-)))))
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10/16/09 2:42PM |
"it does not mean that fewer people are looking at your art...." what it does mean is that very few real people were ever looking at our art. how will this impact artwanteds numbers of hits in terms of being a great site for traffic?
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10/17/09 5:25AM  |
Do you submit your art work to any other online portfolio sites (such as Deviantart.com?) you could always sign up and compare traffic stats. You don't get individual image stats with DA but you can see how many people came that day.
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10/17/09 9:52AM |
i'm with fineartamerica and they will be eliminating bots and search engines as well. i alos have a flag counter for country stats. go to flagcounter.com to download one for free.
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10/23/09 12:03PM  |
Kk, thanx!
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10/24/09 8:33AM  |
It sort of was disturbing and I lost my excitement about doing anything anymore for such low percentages.
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10/28/09 9:30AM  |
I think that's great. Inflated numbers are meaningless.
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11/06/09 2:06PM  |
Lets hope that the TRUTH won't HURT!
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11/08/09 10:13AM  |
Not that it matters to me, but the hits are absolutely insane. In July I show 22,000; Sept.2500 and Oct about 3,000. I think the system is going loco, but don't bother for I care less about hits.
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11/10/09 10:01AM  |
pas juste du tout.... je connais des ecoles de 300 etudiants aves 2 pc pour eux tous et lors d'une de maes exposition ils ont presque tous vus chacun son tour ma gallerie sur le meme pc
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