The Bee Log

103bees has been tracking questions in search queries for more than a month now. Here’s an interesting key figure on web search behaviour.

The title says it: an amazing 1.5% of all search queries tracked by 103bees in January are questions! So instead of searching for ‘uninstall ie7′ some web surfers obviously prefer to search for ‘How do I get rid of IE7′ (question taken from the ‘The web’s funniest search queries’ page). More »

Knowing what a target audience is interested in should be of prime importance to every internet marketer. 103bees introduces a new way of doing visitor intelligence by identifying questions in the Long Tail of search.

Surfers usually enter one or more keywords related to what they are looking for when using search engines. More »

New post series including examples of Long Tail graphs that our users send us for a quick analysis.

We know from an earlier post how an ideal search term popularity distribution looks like and that it shows a straight line when plotted on a logarithmic chart. Here’s an example that comes pretty close to a perfect search term popularity distribution: More »

Analyzing search terms can tell you how to increase search engine traffic for your websites.

So you’ve got some decent traffic coming from search engines. Using our search term analysis tool, you’ve even grouped your search terms, ranked them by search hits and got yourself a nice Long Tail chart showing a power curve. Now what? More »

Post providing 103bees users with some background info on our ‘Long Tail’ graphs and statistics.

A small lesson in math to begin with: The ‘Power Law’ is a simple relationship between two scalar quantities x and y: More »