How Do I Know Where Traffic is From

[aristotle]

If I purchase an expired domain, how can I know where traffic is from? This is to enable me to know where best to park the domain. Some parking services do not pay you for non-US traffic for instance.

Is there any software or website that I can use?

 

[hugegrowth]

you could try a google search for the domain, and see if it comes up as a link on any sites - you might be able to tell on the site it links from where the most obvious traffic would originate. otherwise, if you have a hosting account somewhere and add the name, they can usually give you stats on where the hits originate from. you probably don't have your own servers, and neither do I, as that would be the most obvious way to tell. maybe someone here can help.

 

[vlaen]

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Aristotle,

You can put up a page on the site you own and sign up for a free account at

www. statcounter. com

I've used them for a while and it seems to be very nice. They will show you the actual keywords typed into Yahoo, Google etc to get to your site.

Lots of good tools there.

It's free but you'll only see the last 100 logs and up to 250,00 page views per month before it goes pay. (it's nicely priced also)

You can go to my site www. marriageinchina .com to see what the 'link to' button looks like.

Thanks,
Vlaen

 

[b.a]

You will find a lot of results by searching at live.com with link:yourdomain.com, linkdomain:yourdomain.com
googles link: command sucks

to find exactly from where the traffic comes, you can try setting one hosting account for that domain and analyze the log. Hosting providers with cPanel control panel are built in with awstats and webalizer. They gives detailed log stats where your traffic comes from.

 

[globefrog]

Google analytics is a powerful free tool mate.

Cheers,
Aaron