For the curious, here are the top fifty search terms that brought visitors to Bristol Traffic during July and August. Banksy comes in at #26, "banksy bristol parking", way below "parking on clifton downs" and "cabot circus parking". But what's at #27? "banksy parking". If you add the (secret) numbers together, then banksy brought traffic to our site between #16 high kingsdown playground, and #17 northumbria drive henleaze.
Suprisingly, Bristol Traffic only comes in on page 2 of google's search of "high kingsdown playground", but on Yahoo! we come it in fourth place. The fact that Yahoo build their indices using Hadoop, the official Bristol Traffic datamining platform, is not a coincidence. What is even stranger is why High Kingsdown Playground or Northumbria Drive Henleaze is so interesting to some people. Two people, we suspect.
1. bristol traffic 2. bristol traffic blog 3. bristol parking blog 4. parking on clifton downs 5. bristol cycling chic 6. bristol traffic news 7. turner buses bristol 8. cabot circus parking 9. bristol bike blog 10. fixie bristol 11. uwe lockleaze path 12. bristol cars 13. henleaze parking 14. traffic bristol 15. cpz bristol 16. high kingsdown playground 17. northumbria drive henleaze 18. traffic news bristol 19. traffic news 20. bristol blog 21. bristol cycling blog 22. bike blog bristol 23. ofsted bristol traffic 24. mod abbey wood 25. st phillips causeway flyover 26. banksy bristol parking 27. banksy parking 28. bristol bike project 29. oregon bike tax 30. bristoltraffic 31. mod abbey wood bristol 32. bicycle tax 33. cabot circus bike parking 34. for immediate release 35. thali cafe clifton 36. bristol cars blogspot 37. bristol cpz areas map 38. pete taylor 39. thali cafe 40. free parking in bristol 41. nugent hill civil war bristol 42. portsmouth seafront 43. safe parking 44. sustrans route 4 45. troy atkinson 46. "pete taylor" bristol 47. balloon fiesta traffic 48. banksy bristol 49. banksy vs bristol 50. bristol cycle blog
It is pleasing to see that searches for Turner Bus Bristol and Turner Buses Bristol coming at #7 -our page describing a Turner Bus driver's attempt to reduce the number of children they have to pick up by one. If you endanger people, the fact becomes known. Similarly, Thali Cafe is popular -on account of its excellent food.
What is sad is to see visitors asking about Troy Atkinson -killed in April while crossing a road, and Pete Taylor. These people are being remembered, but it's sad to see that people are still looking for answers -especially to Troy's death.
Summary: not much Banksy traffic; we get many more visitors by way of Bristol Blogger's site. But that is now sliding down the rankings -google images is bringing in more traffic. There's a reason for that. Between us and Bristol Graffiti, we provide the photographs of Montpelier, Stokes Croft and regions nearby, such as nine tree hill. This is not an accident, this is part of our strategic plans.
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6 comments:
Does adding 48 and 49 nudge Banksy up a little? Personally, I'm missing those queues...
yes, that may put it above high kingsdown, but below clifton CPZ
Actually I've a confession to make. I claimed that the Banksy exhibition had no effect on my blog purely for comic effect. I didn't even bother to check my stats before I did the post.
In fact I've had 921 visitors to the blog who've used the search term 'Banksy' to find it in the last 3 months.
That's about ten a day. But please don't tell BCC , it only encourages them.
How many searches a day for "northumbria drive henleaze"? That's the real question.
I've had 31 visitors in the last 3 months searching for 'dildo chair'.
No. I don't know either.
If you had better hi-viz coverage you'd get even more visitors with "special interests"
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