http://www.searchekko.com/<p>It's like a "related articles" widget for blogs, but it uses visitors' HTTP referrers to target the related articles. (It only displays to visitors arriving from a search engine.)<p>I'm sure it's a little rough, but I'd love to hear what you guys think. Thanks!
Nice idea and the implementation seems good. I am tempted to use this on some of my sites.<p>Some questions:<p>a) How does it work? Lets say I have a recipe site and a visitor arrives from Google having searched for "steak". How do you find related articles on my site?<p>b) What if my site isn't indexed? (e.g. new, blocked etc)<p>c) The widget has 8 actions (links/buttons etc). 2 of them point to my site and 6 to yours! I would prefer something like 7 to mine and 1 to yours :)<p>d) Certainly add some options. The "Looking for more on", "Or try a new search" and the 3 related keywords should be optional.<p>e) The 480px is very limiting. I can't put that in a sidebar it has to go to the main area<p>f) The site copy needs a redo. I could not easily grasp what it does, how it works etc.<p>Great work overall - I hope my suggestions are well taken!
Your demo, had me a little confused, but based on your oneliner and other peoples comments it makes more sense.<p>That said...<p>Great little concept.<p>* If your majorly concerned about dodgy injections of referrers. Might be worth taking a leaf out of bit.ly and linking a system to filter out urls based on something like <a href="http://www.surbl.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.surbl.org/</a>.<p>* Maybe even include the ability to offer unique things to visitors from wherever they might have just come. A unique article only they can see, whom knows.<p>* What sort of reporting could / would be good for the site owner?
That's a really nice idea. Immediately I was wondering how you'd deal with refeeral spam, then I noticed your 'from search engine only' bit.<p>That does make me think there might be a fairly easy way to spam your service though: find a search page where page of spammer ranks high, do lots of visits from botnet to page of target with referring url search engine page.<p>You'd think that these are 'related' pages whereas in fact no such link exists.<p>You'll have to guard against that somehow, check back on the search page and see if it is really related or if somebody is spoofing the referrer.
This is indeed a good idea! Congrats.<p>You may like to improve the copy on your web page. The first thing that's not immediately obvious is what links are displayed. It might be better to write "it uses their individual search queries to display _additional matches from your site_."<p>And you may like to change the image on the front page. Nothing wrong with stock photos but this guy looks as if bouncing makes fun. I don't think that's the impression you want to create.
Great idea! This is just a random thought, but I wonder if there's some way you could incorporate the google sets API that was posted recently to get 'related' articles from the search terms if you don't get any results initially.