Stats and Google Searches

[babrees]

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I'm curious...

Looking at my stats I often see the referrer as Google for a term I hadn't thought of. Clicking to see my place for that term I'm not there!

How come the visitor got to me from that page if I can't see my site listed?

[accelerator]

If you're blogging then you can go up the rankings shortly after posting and then back down again, i.e. the position you had is very temporary. Maybe it's that?

Rgds

[babrees]

Thanks but it's neither of those. These are usually on my product pages that are just from a datafeed, so that page isn't even unique content either!

Just curious that's all :-)

[eymedia]

I think it is just a temporary position in Google as accelerator says.

I do quite often see results from Bing (or previously Live) though for great keywords like "broadband" but when I click on the URLs am nowhere to be seen - shame because page one on Bing for "broadband" would I'm sure be quite lucrative! Not sure what's causing this - either I am very briefly ranking there, or there is some problem with the referring URL.

Cheers.