What it looks like when Google links to your website

Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by ekr on Thursday July 04, 2013 @10:28AM (#5990766)

Probably one of the reasons Google linked to them, is that they have so many Google ads on their pages (3 of them - quite disturbing to me). And Google takes about 32% of the price paid by the advertiser.

Just a back-of-the-envelope calculation: let's assume 217000 page views, with a 1% CTR, and a 1$ CPC. The result (of that 1 day) : ~2000$.

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Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by proexploit on Thursday July 04, 2013 @11:01AM (#5990924)

There's no way $2000 even factored into Google's decision of who to link to.

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Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by babuskov on Thursday July 04, 2013 @02:09PM (#5991788)

Both 1% CTR and $1 CPC are more than you would expect from average website. Across all my websites I have 0.38% CTR and $0.27 CPC.

The result is then ~ $200, not $2000.

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Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by raawmarkus on Thursday July 04, 2013 @02:26PM (#5991864)

I'm not interested in arguing about Google's reasons for linking to us but I just wanted to point out that it was not 217.000 pageviews but rather "users" or "uniques". Pageviews were 2-3 times that number.

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Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by paranoiacblack on Thursday July 04, 2013 @11:29AM (#5991054)

Or because they had good alternatives to Google Reader that would be updated and voted on by a good user-base? No, nevermind, can't be that.

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