Improvement in Traffic at Namedrive

[markits]

I checked my ND stats carefully and did find quite few chinese domains got hits and clicks. Tricky thing is that I couldn't find any of these domains are indexed at any search engines.

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by markits

I checked my ND stats carefully and did find quite few chinese domains got hits and clicks. Tricky thing is that I couldn't find any of these domains are indexed at any search engines.

Well try hooking the ones that are getting traffic up to analytics by pasting the Analytics Code in the Meta Tags using URL forwarding. You should then get at least some of the answers.

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Well try hooking the ones that are getting traffic up to analytics by pasting the Analytics Code in the Meta Tags using URL forwarding. You should then get at least some of the answers.

There may be discrepancies coming out of China, but you should be able to establish that is not from Singapore.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

There may be discrepancies coming out of China, but you should be able to establish that is not from Singapore.

The traffic from Singapore is minor - I did capture a few views (on different networks from mine). There are probably 300k chinese nationals and students living in singapore, but even that is a drop in a bucket.

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Well try hooking the ones that are getting traffic up to analytics by pasting the Analytics Code in the Meta Tags using URL forwarding. You should then get at least some of the answers.

There may be discrepancies coming out of China, but you should be able to establish that is not from Singapore.

Originally Posted by markits

I checked my ND stats carefully and did find quite few chinese domains got hits and clicks.

Maybe they are coming through the system of proxy servers used by many Chinese.
How would that affect the data etc?

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

Maybe they are coming through the system of proxy servers used by many Chinese.

I would suggest that the discrepancy is in the wrong direction for that to be the case and we would expect to see most of those proxies popping up outside China.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

Maybe they are coming through the system of proxy servers used by many Chinese.

There are holes in the great firewall, we already knew this during Sedo time - before we started using ND.

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by touchring

There are holes in the great firewall, we already knew this during Sedo time - before we started using ND.

Yes, but what we are seeing is different as I went from next to no traffic on ND to quite a bit at the beginning of the month. If it was just proxies or something we would not have had a quantum leap. We had intermittent traffic bursts at Sedo but that was attributable to the Chinese tinkering with the system.

We have never firmly established that the Chinese are deliberately trying to disadvantage us. I believe it has always been possible to get traffic from ASCII sites. It seems just as likely the problems have been caused inadvertantly due to them fiddling to try to get IDN.cn to resolve.

Blame bloody MS. If they hadn't caused such problems with Browser support, much of this may never have happened!