referrals

Facebook's traffic from Google and Bing takes a nosedive

It seems all of Facebook's fears regarding Google's "Search Plus Your World" have been confirmed...maybe.

New stats on referral traffic to Facebook from Google were recently released by a Facebook analytics company called PageLever. The news site Search Engine Land first reported this data. The numbers show that ever since "Search Plus Your World" launched in January, Facebook's traffic has taken a nosedive.

What's strange, however, is that referral traffic from Bing is also down -- and obviously Bing doesn't use "Search Plus Your World."

Google rolled out &… Read more

How to get the most free online storage

Google Drive. Dropbox. Box. SkyDrive. Cubby. iCloud.

All cloud storage services. All offer a free plan, with varying levels of storage and features. All offer paid upgrades for more storage and yet more features. With pricing becoming such a hot topic, especially with the launch of Google Drive, let's take a look at the free upgrades some of these services are offering, and how you can take advantage of them today.

With so many different cloud storage options out there, some of the service providers are offering free storage in exchange for promoting the respective service or recruiting friends … Read more

Lawsuit targets Google over Web referrals

Google has been targeted in a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of violating user privacy by passing along search queries in referral links.

The suit, filed yesterday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that Google's practice of including search terms in the URL for search-results pages violates user privacy when that URL is passed onto the publisher of the Web site clicked on by a Google user. For example, when a Google user searches for "sushi restaurants in San Francisco," Google generates a search results page with a URL along … Read more

Get $100 from Sprint for irritating your friends

It's no secret that Sprint isn't enjoying the best of the times at the moment. Though the carrier narrowed its loss in the fourth quarter of 2008, it lost 1.3 million subscribers during the same period.

As that loss is far from an isolated incident, it's not surprising Sprint is now offering existing customers a $100 referral fee for bringing new subscribers to the carrier. All you need to do is enter the names and e-mail addresses of up 12 of your friends on a special Web site. Sprint will send the chosen few an e-mail … Read more

The Cyclical Nature of Search Engine Referrals

Using a keyword research tool like Google Trends or KeywordDiscovery.com, one can see the seasonality in search term popularity. For example, as one might expect, gourmet chocolate related searches peak at the holidays, as well as around Valentine's Day and Easter.

The ebbing and flowing of searcher activity is also evidenced in your website stats. Search referred traffic will drop in the low season, unsurprisingly. But would you have expected to see the relative share of each search engine to change depending on the time of year?

Well that's what Enquisite has found by crunching search engine … Read more