# How many hits does this board get now that it Google favors it?

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**Created:** [March 19, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hits-does-this-board-get-now-that-it-google-favors-it/575210 "2011-03-19T00:13:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hits-does-this-board-get-now-that-it-google-favors-it/575210/1 "2011-03-19T00:13:50Z")

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I think most people that have been paying attention have noticed zombie threads being resurrected by people finding this board through a Google search and coming in to register just to comment on an old thread. I have had three people register and contact me about things that I wrote based on things they found on Google searches that were really specific. They were all welcome because they filled in some details that I didn’t know but it made it obvious that everything you post here is for the world to see and search. I have also found both my own posts and those of other people here that I know through Google searches that I thought were unrelated at the time.

How much new traffic is generated from Google? How many hits do older threads get?

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hits-does-this-board-get-now-that-it-google-favors-it/575210/2 "2011-03-19T01:31:23Z")

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[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/straightdope.com](http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/straightdope.com)

See for yourself.

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hits-does-this-board-get-now-that-it-google-favors-it/575210/3 "2011-03-19T02:08:16Z")

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Thanks. Top 2000 for the U.S. is pretty high.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hits-does-this-board-get-now-that-it-google-favors-it/575210/4 "2011-03-19T02:42:40Z")

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Ed posted a year ago that we were getting 356,000 _unique_ visitors in 30 days. This was triple what non-Google searching was(I think).

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12417234&postcount=17](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12417234&postcount=17)