Second Life Forums Archive - Traffic still determines search listing in All?

Paulo Dielli

Symfurny Furniture

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01-30-2008 21:55

I thought that traffic has absolutely no influence on the search results in the new search All-tab. But I see big sl stores climb up every week in search, moving my smaller store with less traffic a bit more down.

I have compared keywords, shop/land names, products for sale and everything else I can think of. If the keyword would be 'badoozle', then I see stores make higher listings with for instance only once or twice that keyword, than stores that have this keyword on hundreds of prims. Search listings seem completely irratic.

I can only imagine that traffic still has a major influence on search listings in the new All tab, although I understood that it shouldn't.

I can't find the thread that explained how the new search works. Anyone a link maybe? But I am particularly interested if traffic still plays a role.

SuezanneC Baskerville

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01-30-2008 22:37

Everything I recall reading about the new search said that traffic was one factor in the ranking.

The search faq in the kb is at
https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/security.asp?deptID=4417&task=knowledge&questionID=4722

From: someone

10. Will traffic play any role in the new search rankings?

High traffic somewhat increases the relevance of search results, because we provide inbound links from traffic pages with top-10, top-20, top-1000, etc. places. The place listings do not sort strictly by traffic, however. It's only one of many factors considered by the search appliance.

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Ciaran Laval

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01-30-2008 23:07

Traffic still very much counts, even in the new search all.

Kitty Barnett

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01-31-2008 02:48

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From: Kitty Barnett

Traffic still determines search listing in All?
Paulo Dielli Symfurny Furniture Join date: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 780	01-30-2008 21:55 I thought that traffic has absolutely no influence on the search results in the new search All-tab. But I see big sl stores climb up every week in search, moving my smaller store with less traffic a bit more down. I have compared keywords, shop/land names, products for sale and everything else I can think of. If the keyword would be 'badoozle', then I see stores make higher listings with for instance only once or twice that keyword, than stores that have this keyword on hundreds of prims. Search listings seem completely irratic. I can only imagine that traffic still has a major influence on search listings in the new All tab, although I understood that it shouldn't. I can't find the thread that explained how the new search works. Anyone a link maybe? But I am particularly interested if traffic still plays a role.
SuezanneC Baskerville Forums Rock! Join date: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 14,229	01-30-2008 22:37 Everything I recall reading about the new search said that traffic was one factor in the ranking. The search faq in the kb is at https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/security.asp?deptID=4417&task=knowledge&questionID=4722 From: someone 10. Will traffic play any role in the new search rankings? High traffic somewhat increases the relevance of search results, because we provide inbound links from traffic pages with top-10, top-20, top-1000, etc. places. The place listings do not sort strictly by traffic, however. It's only one of many factors considered by the search appliance. _____________________ - So long to these forums, the vBulletin forums that used to be at forums.secondlife.com. I will miss them. I can be found on the web by searching for "SuezanneC Baskerville", or go to http://www.google.com/profiles/suezanne - http://lindenlab.tribe.net/ created on 11/19/03. Members: Ben, Catherine, Colin, Cory, Dan, Doug, Jim, Philip, Phoenix, Richard, Robin, and Ryan -
Ciaran Laval Mostly Harmless Join date: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 7,951	01-30-2008 23:07 Traffic still very much counts, even in the new search all.
Kitty Barnett Registered User Join date: 10 May 2006 Posts: 5,586	01-31-2008 02:48 (/327/86/224252/1.html#post1792268) From: Kitty Barnett What they seem to do is create a list of all parcels listed in search across all of SL, sort it by traffic and cut it off at a certain point to make a "top xx" page (there's 12 of them apparantly): http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.10.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.20.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.50.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.100.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.200.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.500.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.1000.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.2000.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.5000.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.10000.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.20000.html http://world.secondlife.com/start/traffic.50000.html So if you're #5 on the "most traffic in SL" list, you have 12 traffic webpages that reference you, giving you an extra of 12 inbound links, boosting your search ranking. If you're #2004 you get 4 extra inbound links. If you're not in there at all, no boost for you.

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