* news 2005 & 2006 *

   

Historic traffic to 2004:

Page views,
1997 - 2004:
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
SGS Total traffic 107,114 190,050 518,550 1,224,433 1,942,479 2,884,739 4,984,983 6,128,170
Increase over
 previous year:
  77.4% 172.8% 136.1% 58.6% 48.5% 72.8% 22.9%

Popular Guides, 2004:

 

March 2004

June 2004
1 Scheduling Effective Study habits
2 Managing stress Mapping information
3 Learning to learn Learning to learn
4 Murder study system Murder study system
5 Mapping information Scheduling
6 Memorizing Time management
7 Thinking like a genius Thinking like a genius
8 Ten tips for test taking Concentrating
9 Motivating yourself Scheduling
10 Concentrating Ten tips for test taking
11 Self assessment strategies Managing stress
12 Writing strategies Motivating yourself
13 Critical thinking Problem solving
14 Avoiding procrastination Critical thinking
15 Studying with ADHD Studying with ADHD
16 Problem solving SQ3R reading method
17 Multiple choice tests Self assessment strategies
18 Learning as an adult Learning as an adult
19 Test preparation Multiple choice tests
20 Mapping (Spanish version) Taking notes from a text book
21 Taking notes from a text book Active listening
22 Writing basics Avoiding procrastination
23   Critical reading
24   Taking notes in lectures
25   Vocabulary building

Who links to the Study Guides?  analyzed 12/26/02

Review of the Study Guides web site
includes data on how many web sites link to the Guides.  Three search engines were tested as to which link to the Study Guides web site within their respective databases:

FAST (through Hot Bot) offered (12/26/02) the most options,
including separating out internal links, searching for sites in a particular language, and by domain.  Links in the following languages were not available:  Amharic, Hindi, Luganda, Tamil.

All languages Eng/Spanish .edu .com .gov .org .net .mil
43,654 40,329 2,949 15,684 9 13,157 632 7
Arabic Chinese Croatian Czech Danish French German
154 103 30 4 9 189 192
Indonesian Italian Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish Turkish
247 222 242 6 17 161 42

Google (through Hot Bot) allows determining numbers of links,
though its search by various settings did not consistently work on the day of the trials (8/17/03)

All languages

1,380

Alta Vista allows determining links by domains (8/17/03):

All languages Eng/Spanish .edu .com .gov .org .mil
6,862 6,321 1,637 1,693 8 927 406 5


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