I finally got around to getting the statistics for September 2007 for the Google Webmaster Help Groups (archive.org) finished up. I have to admit the numbers for September aren’t the best, especially the counts for the posts by Googlers. Getting started at Google took quite some time and a lot of learning :) . And wow - look at the Googlers post in October (great work, everyone!).
On a slightly sader note, I don’t think I can continue to provide these statistics here. I hope I can work something out as a replacement though, we’ll see.. or maybe I would be better off just posting in the group instead :D .
Without further ado, here are …
The numbers
- Number of new threads = 1157
- Number of new posts = 5902
- Average number posts/new thread = 4.81
- Number of posts by new users = 915 (15.5%)
- Number of threads by new users = 696 (60.2%)
- Average number of posts in threads by new users = 4.8
- Number of new threads started by Googlers = 2
- Number of new posts by Googlers = 35
Feel free to compare to August and July 2007. Comparing those numbers to the previous months there’s a visible drop, especially in the number of posts (-1774 or 23%) and threads (-172 or 13%). I hope we can push that back up soon (and answer more questions in the FAQs so that fewer threads are needed :) ).
Top posters
Thank you, top posters!! It’s great to have you in our community helping so many people to get their issues solved. You’re the best! Come on back, JLH, we’re missing you.
- webado (archive.org) = 746
- cass-hacks (archive.org) = 207
- Phil Payne (archive.org) = 195
- JLH (archive.org) = 178
- cristina (archive.org) = 168
- Admin Aaron (archive.org) = 163
- Robbo (archive.org) = 157
- abracadabra (archive.org) = 145
- seo101 = 117
- burchman519 (archive.org) = 94
- IceGiant (archive.org) = 80
- dockarl (archive.org) = 67
- Red Cardinal (archive.org) = 53
- Sam I Am (archive.org) = 51
- Randy P. = 49
seo101 and Randy P. - feel free to give me a site to link to, even if it isn’t yours :) .
Top thread starters
- burchman519 = 10
- Admin Aaron = 9
- tal7080 = 8
- Tomcat619 = 8
- Alaa Maanawi = 7
- Chibcha = 7
- ShaneMC = 7
- JLH = 6
- ARC = 5
- gl-science.com = 5
- Phil Payne = 5
- Vic = 5
- yorkieron = 5
- azholkover = 4
- Blue Fin = 4
Threads with Googlers participating
I hope we push this category off the charts in the next months!!
- Crawl, Index, Rank: “Craig and Webado and others deserve medals” (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: 11 urls not found (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Adsense Ads Time (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: confusion over redirection of old domains (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: DNS error in Google Webmaster tools (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Duplicate Content Penalty For Affiliate Sales Page on Same Server (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Effect of Parked Domain on Rankings (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Have my site and/or google been hacked ? (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: No Google Love (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Pagerank of 0? (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Popular Picks – What would you like to know more about? (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: robots.txt and domino (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: submiting website. (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: bye (archive.org)
- Sitemaps: Add-on domain sitemap (archive.org)
- Sitemaps: Authenticated pages (archive.org)
- Sitemaps: sitemap and extra characters (archive.org)
- Sitemaps: Sitemap throwing erroneous error (archive.org)
- Sitemaps: We experienced a temporary error processing your Sitemap. Please try again later. (archive.org)
- Suggestions: Helping webmasters with duplicate content (archive.org)
- Suggestions: ROFLMAO - dear Google! (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: Analytics Goals/Funnels with different domains. (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: Business description not what submitted Hijacked? (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: Crack software sold on sites on blacklist buy reached by Google keyword search (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: DNS/URL timeout for Googlebot crawler (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: i cant view pictures from suddenlink (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: Not Verified (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: Re-Inclusion After Removal for “Hidden Text” (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: ReInclusion Request-Removal of More Hidden Text-2nd Request (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: Removing pages and directories (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: robots.txt unreachable yet it has been OK for years (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: URLs Removal denied (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: Using Optimizer on index page (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: verifying a template website (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: Why is Google’s cache for my site another domain entirely? (archive.org)
New threads started by Googlers
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Popular Picks – What would you like to know more about? (Adam Lasnik) (archive.org)
- Suggestions: Helping webmasters with duplicate content (Maile Ohye) (archive.org)
New threads started by regulars (>100 posts)
Lots of regulars are great to see. I love it when you come back and start a thread for something special.
- Crawl, Index, Rank: A wee bit perplexed (burchman519) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Additional Googlers… (JLH) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Any suggestions? (burchman519) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: ARGH!?! Why, why, why Google? (Sam I Am) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Bad Neighborhood Checker Question (burchman519) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Brand New URL in Google Sitemap Not Indexed!!!!! (webado) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Could this mean my site is penalized (burchman519) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: crawl Errors for pages that doesn’t exist (Phil Payne) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Datacenter Freakin’ Question (Admin Aaron) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Don’t expect PageRank update soon (JLH) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Dramatic drop in pagerank (Phil Payne) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Duplicate blocks of text (Admin Aaron) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: google - Pagerank (cass-hacks) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Google has forgotten about me? (Admin Aaron) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Help - Google have stopped indexing all the sites on our Class C (cass-hacks) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Help me repair my hidden text! (Admin Aaron) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: I thought this was bad practice. (burchman519) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Is Google selling crawlable links? (marketingtitan) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Is there Redemption? - 1 year ban (mrg) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Lost Homepage in index and cache (JLH) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Minus 30 penalty (burchman519) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Paid Link Report #1 (Admin Aaron) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Popular Picks – What would you like to know more about? (Adam Lasnik) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Posts Held in Moderation? (Admin Aaron) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Robots.txt - do conflicting disallows/sitemap work? (Sam I Am) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Sitemap errors and warnings (Chris Gunn) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: This one’s for the regulars (Phil Payne) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Traffic for Vicodin? (Admin Aaron) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: What is your take on this?? (burchman519) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: What other outside influences can affect your SERP? (burchman519) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: What’s this funny URL? (Admin Aaron) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: What’s your take on this? (burchman519) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Why is Google indexing sblogsite.com - maybe because they’re an Adsense publisher? (Red Cardinal) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Why would these links have two different cached dates? (burchman519) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: A small PR (Public Relations) problem for Google? (Red Cardinal) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: babe (yorkieron) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: bye (JLH) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Cass Hacks (yorkieron) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Craig (yorkieron) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Daterbases (yorkieron) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Dear Chris Gunn (Sebastian) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Funny But True (yorkieron) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Googles Going to the moon (surf_doggie) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Interview with JLH! (cristina) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Interview with JohnMu! (cristina) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: JLH removed Matt Cutts from the Interweb, er Google (Sebastian) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: JohnMu interviews world famous Richard “Red Cardinal” Hearne (JLH) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: New tools interface! (cass-hacks) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Statistics for August are online :-) (JohnMu) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: The Adam Lasnik Bucket Hat changed my life (IceGiant) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Welcome Cuttlets (JLH) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: You never know what you’ve got until the sword cuts both ways… (IceGiant) (archive.org)
- Sitemaps: DNS Errors on sitemap (roysnj) (archive.org)
- Suggestions: Idea For Google Webmaster Help (Admin Aaron) (archive.org)
- Suggestions: Malformed markup notification (Phil Payne) (archive.org)
- Suggestions: Multiple subdomain verification (Sam I Am) (archive.org)
- Suggestions: ROFLMAO - dear Google! (Phil Payne) (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: Multiple subdomain verification option? (Sam I Am) (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: robots.txt unreachable yet it has been OK for years (silverstall) (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: Webmaster Tools UI (surf_doggie) (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: wondering what url they want to remove cache (JohnMu) (archive.org)
Top most active threads
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Thoroughly sabotaged (50 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Do Outgoing Links Increase Ranking? (48 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: ARGH!?! Why, why, why Google? (45 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: mystified by penalty … went from #1 to #726 overnight (42 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: DNS error in Google Webmaster tools (40 new replies) (archive.org)
- Webmaster Tools: DNS/URL timeout for Googlebot crawler (37 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: proxy hijacked pages (but no action from google) :( (35 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Help with SEO ! (34 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Breaking Out Of Frames Used By Google Image Search With Javascript (30 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Popular Picks – What would you like to know more about? (29 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: spam question (27 new replies) (archive.org)
- Random Chit-Chat: Has Anyone noticed how not so relevant Googles serp’s are lately? (27 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Duplicate Content on Different CC TLDs (25 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Former PR6 site, now PR0 and individual pages not being indexed for past 6 months (25 new replies) (archive.org)
- Crawl, Index, Rank: Need Help Please! - My Site Is Going Down The Google Toilet! (25 new replies) (archive.org)
- Sitemaps: Sitemap (25 new replies) (archive.org)
Top most linked Domains
- google.com = 657
- ne-design.net = 583
- validator.w3.org = 220
- example.com = 153
- groups.google.com = 152
- tool.motoricerca.info = 127
- oyoy.eu = 124
- home-medical-equipment-depot.com = 93
- mysite.com = 85
- kunstpladsen.dk = 74
- doggypanache.com = 74
- sitemaps.org = 73
- expeditionsail.com = 71
- tanklesswater.com = 59
- w3.org = 57
I always find this list interesting. Besides reference sites, examples (mysite.com is up and coming :D ) and tools, the sites being linked to usually do not get listed for more than one month. I hope that’s because the issues were resolved (but I know sometimes it’s not that simple and I’m glad to see perserverence among you all).
Top most linked Google answers
- Webmaster Help Center - Hidden text and links (archive.org) = 54
- Webmaster Help Center - Webmaster Guidelines (archive.org) = 49
- Webmaster Help Center - How can I create a Google-friendly site? (archive.org) = 13
- Webmaster Help Center - Block or remove pages using meta tags (archive.org) = 11
- Webmaster Help Center - How do I block Googlebot? (archive.org) = 8
- Webmaster Help Center - How do you compile the list of links shown below some search results? (archive.org) = 7
- Webmaster Help Center - How can I ensure my content is eligible for removal from the Google index? (archive.org) = 6
- Webmaster Help Center - How does Google modify web pages for mobile viewing? (archive.org) = 6
- Webmaster Help Center - HTTP errors/ 401/407 authentication error (archive.org) = 5
- Webmaster Help Center - How do I add my site to Google’s search results? (archive.org) = 5
- Webmaster Help Center - Does Google index dynamic pages? (archive.org) = 4
- Webmaster Help Center - My URL changed, so how can I get Google to index my new site? (archive.org) = 4
- Webmaster Help Center - URLs not followed /Redirect error (archive.org) = 3
- Webmaster Help Center - What’s a preferred domain? (archive.org) = 3
- Webmaster Help Center - Link schemes (archive.org) = 3
- Webmaster Help Center - Why isn’t my site returning when I search for results from a particular country? (archive.org) = 3
- Webmaster Help Center - How do I request reconsideration of my site? (archive.org) = 3
- Why do some of my search results say “This site may harm your computer?” (archive.org) = 2
- Webmaster Help Center - Why should I report paid links to Google? (archive.org) = 2
- Webmaster Help Center - How do I use the URL removal request tool? (archive.org) = 2
Looking back at September, what were the most common issues that remained present in your mind?
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