Find Buffalo Blog

I thought I would post on FindBuffalo.com’s traffic from March … and this isn’t anything associated with April Fools (is that disclosure?).

Users
Total User Sessions: 5,906
Average Daily Sessions: 190

Traffic Sources
Direct (entering URL into browser): 5,316
MSN / Live Search: 201
Google: 74 (slowly picking up speed)
Yahoo: 59
WifiFreeSpot.com: 18

Top Keywords
“buffalo cinema”
“Buffalo MN”
“buffalo mn newspaper”
“josh ortman” (Buffalo Basketball player)
“city of Buffalo MN”

We’ll see what happens in April. I have seen more traction with Google in the last few weeks and the Buffalo boys basketball team’s state title run brought some new exposure as well. I’m hoping to get some more time in the coming weeks to add some new content and features to the site as well.

FindBuffalo.com has been available to the world for 45 days now so I thought it would be a good time to offer up a review on some of the keywords I’m starting to pull traffic for and also layout the sites I have managed to pull links from. As a quick review I will say that I have found it easier going to gain rank with search results on Yahoo than Google (still no major traction there), some progress from MSN and no love from Ask.com. Is there a trick to getting Ask to notice you? Let me know. So here are some specifics to what I can offer. If I don’t list an engine, I simply do not appear in their top 100 results. Damn you Google.

Search Term: buffalo mn - #5 MSN - #27 Yahoo

Search Term: golds gym buffalo mn - #1 Yahoo

Search Term: community center buffalo mn - #10 Yahoo - #12 MSN

Search Terms: buffalo mn news - #1 MSN - #3 Yahoo

Here are the links I’m aware of for FindBuffalo:
City of Buffalo (on drop down nav under community - org’s)
Buffalo School District - District #877
WrightSpot (Wright County Community Site)
DelanoMN (Delano MN Community Site)
Zion Lutheran Church - Buffalo, MN
Marci Weiche, Buffalo, MN Realtor
Wikipedia - Buffalo MN

Last night I was messing around with Google’s Webmaster tools and found quite a few beneficial tools for understanding Google, it’s indexing and their new adoption of site amp reading.  The SMC (content management tool) will soon have a built in feed of XML for the site map to appease Google, Yahoo and MSN but until then I found another solution.  Check out this XML site map generator that aids in your crusade for free.  It’s a pretty easy process and worth the 5 minutes.