Uniques going down, WHY.

[co2]

This one has me totaly puzzled, how can uniques go down.
Surely a unique visit to a site, is a visit.

This is the responce I recived.

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Thank you for your email.

The figures shown on your parking statistics page are for the most recent 32 days. They will constantly change, as they are on a rotating scale, rather than a fixed scale.

If you have further questions regarding your statistics, please tell us what exact report you are viewing, as well as the date range for the report.

Any help on this one, thx co2.

 

[firefly]

Search engine traffic is not constant. You may get months where you get lots of unique visitors, and some months where you numbers drop through the floor.

The only way to truly build and maintain traffic is to develop your sites.

Parking will always cause fluctuations in your numbers.Search engine traffic for them is not guaranteed.

Recent developements with google looking poorly on parked pages is probably not helping your cause either

 

[Seabass]

I try to buy only generics with no search engine links, just type-in traffic, yet I am still seeing this.

What I have seen is a dropping of uniques on generics year over year. Just look at a three year report of some of your good domains that have been at the same parking company and you will see what I mean.

I have mentioned this before but nobody seems to want to talk about it.

 

[Jasdon]

I try to buy only generics with no search engine links, just type-in traffic, yet I am still seeing this.

What I have seen is a dropping of uniques on generics year over year. Just look at a three year report of some of your good domains that have been at the same parking company and you will see what I mean.

I have mentioned this before but nobody seems to want to talk about it.

Could be a slow errosion of .com's position due to new tlds coming onto the scene. Or a sign of the dominance of search engines in general. Or a signal that people are perhaps using long tail names when searching directly, ie, 'usedcarsdallas.com' instead of 'usedcars.com'.

I guess that it's a combo of many different things - to expect things to remain constant is unrealistic IMO.

 

[Seabass]

Could be a slow errosion of .com's position due to new tlds coming onto the scene. Or a sign of the dominance of search engines in general. Or a signal that people are perhaps using long tail names when searching directly, ie, 'usedcarsdallas.com' instead of 'usedcars.com'.

I guess that it's a combo of many different things - to expect things to remain constant is unrealistic IMO.

I am not able to put my finger on the reason exactly b/c it is too complex today for anyone to really measure.

I am suspecting that it is the reasons you mentioned and others like alternatives like gaming. Or ISP's browser domain typo theft, IE search theft Tto the right of the "Dot" - such as .cmo, etc.....

To stay on top of the pile it will just come down to making smart purchases from here on out for domainers instead of silly domain buys.
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[dnk]

Search engine traffic may be decreasing

 

[co2]

Now the earnings are going down .