How important is OVT numbers when measuring traffic?

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

Well here's an example that may show OVT should be used as a bare minumum.

penpals.com shows OVT of 3319 for January 2004.

Actual traffic is over 500,000 per day.

Just a thought that not all pricing estimates can be based on OVT.

Now i know those are accurate cause I measure it.

Problems occur when buying domains from scammers and they feed traffic to the domain by forwarding traffic to it or by buying hits outright, therefore screwing with the traffic even more.

Just food for thought....

-=DCG=-

 

[NameTower]

very true.

one of mine had like 30 ovt w /ext

over 500 uniques a day

usually though, its 1/2 of monehtly total daily.

Obviously not always.

 

[Steen]

Really, OVT is pretty useless on its own.

Its a great filter and an awsome tool when used with archive, linkpop as well as other tools.

 

[URLCollection]

DCG - We never look at OVT counts on any buys - We run a Google Direct PPC program and we are always looking at overall link pop or server stats (if available) and nothing Overture has to say. 500K a day on penpals.com is a great number! Steve

 

[NameTower]

but like if theres ovt typeins there are obviously actual typeins

and also consider that it wasn't a site because that may be the source of typeins

right now I am working out a deal with a guy who has a 60k ovt w/ext name to go on a revenue share idea.

just testing traffic and last night since like 1am 50 hits :|

Curious to see what it gets to