Why Google? Why Won't You Show us What People Are Searching for Anymore?

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2 pointsdougbarrett2 comments

There's one piece missing from the show and tell portion: Can you add what the request looks like in your logs when a user clicks on that link? Bonus points if you provide an example of a click from the non-signed in http version.

How much does this change impact you? How many visits are from google searches? How many users are still coming from http google?

These would indeed be an interesting statistic. Maybe I can create my own little "analytics" tool and show stats for every page visited.

I'll provide a follow-up shortly.

For the other points, nearly no traffic is driven to my site by Google. Nearly 80% of the searches were done by me as testing. It's not necessarily a bad thing that Google isn't driving traffic to my site, because it's not complete and in the future it will turn into something more of a "white paper/rambling" website, but right now there is little-to-no useful information on it.

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