Another month goes by, here are the statistics for August (and some comparisons to July in brackets) 2007.

The numbers

  • Number of new threads = 1329 [+5.3%]
  • Number of new posts = 7676 [-1.0%]
  • Average number posts/new thread = 5.48 [-4.5%]
  • Number of posts by new users = 1061 (13.8%) [+30.0%]
  • Number of threads by new users = 813 (61.2%) [+13.4%]
  • Average number of posts in threads by new users = 4.9 [-2.0%]
  • Number of new threads started by Googlers = 4 [+33.3%]
  • Number of new posts by Googlers = 54 [-36.5%]

More posts by new users is nice to see - I hope that’s because the “feel” of the Groups has improved and not just because of strange things going on in the index .

Top posters

  1. webado = 701
  2. cass-hacks = 438
  3. dockarl = 325
  4. cristina = 317
  5. JohnMu = 305
  6. Phil Payne = 303
  7. JLH = 287
  8. abracadabra = 216
  9. djc = 185
  10. Robbo = 124
  11. Sebastian = 96
  12. seo101 = 92
  13. Sam I Am = 90
  14. burchman519 = 78
  15. Randy P. = 74
  16. beckysharpe = 68
  17. roysnj = 67
  18. MrOmnicron = 64
  19. kklynnt = 60
  20. Red Cardinal = 47

It’s great to see some new names in there! If you’re missing a link, put one (a clean one) in your profile and drop me a note.

Top thread starters

  1. Alaa Maanawi = 15
  2. JohnMu = 13
  3. GeminiZin = 9
  4. Dhanjal = 8
  5. burchman519 = 7
  6. JLH = 7
  7. bobflack = 6
  8. cass-hacks = 6
  9. bornblue = 5
  10. dss = 5
  11. easytreasure = 5
  12. hsanchezp = 5
  13. Roh.it = 5
  14. xor = 5
  15. bonsai-resources = 4

Threads with Googlers participating

  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Can’t find my own domain
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Do I need the www. when I list the url?
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Flash site
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” slogan
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Googlebot admin error
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: How to optimize Ajax site?
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Huge Drop In Ranking… Was I penalized?
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: index question
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Is my site being penalized?
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Lower case headlines/no snippets in Google index
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: making money with google
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Need Dreamweaver behavior help!
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: POSTING DELAYS
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Search Results
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Site www.conexmetals.com
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Surprise.com
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Violations of the Google webmaster guidelines
  • Random Chit-Chat: Anybody using the sexy X-Robots-Tags yet?
  • Random Chit-Chat: Blue Badge
  • Random Chit-Chat: How to become a Webmaster Help superstar
  • Random Chit-Chat: This American Life is hiring a webmaster!
  • Sitemaps: Sitemap status pending issue
  • Webmaster Tools: 403 Forbidden meta tag and html page
  • Webmaster Tools: Code in place, site not verifying…
  • Webmaster Tools: Google autofill not fully working with my form
  • Webmaster Tools: Logout Error in Google Webmaster tools
  • Webmaster Tools: Removal from index denied… but I’m doing what they ask!
  • Webmaster Tools: Sub domain verification meta tag
  • Webmaster Tools: temporary error processing your Sitemap
  • Webmaster Tools: Verification Issues?
  • Webmaster Tools: Verification Problem

New threads started by Googlers

  • Crawl, Index, Rank: POSTING DELAYS (Susan Moskwa)
  • Random Chit-Chat: How to become a Webmaster Help superstar (Susan Moskwa)
  • Random Chit-Chat: This American Life is hiring a webmaster! (Susan Moskwa)
  • Webmaster Tools: Verification Issues? (Jonathan Simon)

I hope these two lists can be removed in the future (because they’re too long).

New threads started by regulars (>100 posts)

  • Crawl, Index, Rank: A Cool Tool - SEOQuake (dockarl)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Become a Member / Posting a Question (cass-hacks)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Can somebody from Google please, please fix the script that shows conten of cached pages? (cass-hacks)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: fitflex.com - how to attain more quality links (Nate121)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Going on 4 months; what more can we try?! (Sam I Am)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Google Duplicate Proxy Exploit - automated (JLH)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: How to walk when you can’t crawl? (JohnMu)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: http://www.google.net (MrGamma)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Lost our google rankings we re-designed our site (djc)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Multi National sites +domain names (surf_doggie)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Oh For Crying out loud.. UtheGuru’s SECOND best performing Page gone too.. (dockarl)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: PageRank of non-indexed pages. (cass-hacks)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Please stop the me too threadjacks (JLH)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: site: search doesn’t return index page, search for product does - penalty sign? (dockarl)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Specific reason for drop in SERPs? (abracadabra)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: Spyware interstitials (Red Cardinal)
  • Crawl, Index, Rank: www.analytics-marketing.com (seo101)
  • Random Chit-Chat: “I’m not interested in helping spammers succeed but those who may have done something and not known any better.” - an interview with JLH (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Anybody using the sexy X-Robots-Tags yet? (Sebastian)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Blue Badge (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: chmod 777 and 775 hack attempt (djc)
  • Random Chit-Chat: DA*#!!! Punching holes in walls as company culture (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Do you ever get donations? (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Doesn’t time fly when you’re…? (IceGiant)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Dress like a Googler - part deux (JLH)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Dress Like a Googler! (JLH)
  • Random Chit-Chat: End of an era: dnsreprot is no more - or at least isn’t free (webado)
  • Random Chit-Chat: First impressions of an unknown site (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: How to protect your site from proxies (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: I’ve never seen so many links on a page - statistics for July (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Interesting account of a hacked site (djc)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Is blocking Firefox cloaking? (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: ITU-T September meeting attendees (cass-hacks)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Next interview online :-() (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Old sites not ever indexed by google posts all of a sudden (abracadabra)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Random Chit-Chat is boring lately (JLH)
  • Random Chit-Chat: site: operator no longer ordered by “importance”? (cass-hacks)
  • Random Chit-Chat: The Doc is in! (-terviewed) (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: To _ or not to _ or, is - better? (cass-hacks)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Top Poster Pool (JLH)
  • Random Chit-Chat: Web Content Accessibility (cristina)
  • Random Chit-Chat: What do you think about “pagerank”? (JohnMu)
  • Random Chit-Chat: You can own oyoy for only $49,000.00 (JLH)
  • Sitemaps: “Too many redirects” - giggle (Phil Payne)
  • Suggestions: If possible show HTML source at verification by meta tag (cristina)
  • Suggestions: Problem, but might constitute a suggestion… (marketingtitan)
  • Suggestions: RELATED (or similar) command (burchman519)
  • Suggestions: Starring audit trail (Phil Payne)
  • Webmaster Tools: 000’s of URLs reported as restricted by robots.txt… but they’re not (Red Cardinal)
  • Webmaster Tools: Can Google follow Yahoo’s lead here? (Sam I Am)
  • Webmaster Tools: Error, but still “We accessed your home page successfully.” ? (Sam I Am)
  • Webmaster Tools: Site root page not in index - sign of a penalty? (dockarl)
  • Webmaster Tools: Verification Issues? (Jonathan Simon)
  • Webmaster Tools: Which is wrong? Webmaster Tools or Webmaster Help Center? (Sam I Am)

This list is getting kind of long … is it interesting enough for anyone out there?

Top most active threads

  1. Crawl, Index, Rank: Supplemental Index…Now What? (114 new replies)
  2. Crawl, Index, Rank: Oh For Crying out loud.. UtheGuru’s SECOND best performing Page gone too.. (66 new replies)
  3. Crawl, Index, Rank: 100+ days in the penalty box (61 new replies)
  4. Webmaster Tools: Verification Issues? (60 new replies)
  5. Crawl, Index, Rank: Here’s one for Phil Payne (53 new replies)
  6. Suggestions: Website link on Googles links to trojan.exploit.131 (50 new replies)
  7. Crawl, Index, Rank: site: search doesn’t return index page, search for product does - penalty sign? (41 new replies)
  8. Crawl, Index, Rank: Thoroughly sabotaged (39 new replies)
  9. Crawl, Index, Rank: Congrats to those penalized-now-released - but I’m still penalized! (39 new replies)
  10. Crawl, Index, Rank: Being Removed for No Apparent Reason (38 new replies)
  11. Crawl, Index, Rank: Sitemap Error Messages (37 new replies)
  12. Random Chit-Chat: What do you think about “pagerank”? (37 new replies)
  13. Crawl, Index, Rank: Really lost on meta refresh! debate: Phil vs Sebastian (36 new replies)
  14. Random Chit-Chat: Blue Badge (36 new replies)
  15. Crawl, Index, Rank: Different results from google.com and google.co.uk (35 new replies)

Top most linked Domains

  1. google.com = 681
  2. groups.google.com = 354
  3. our-web-site.com = 329
  4. youreviewelectronics.com = 245
  5. validator.w3.org = 201
  6. venusandmarz.blogspot.com = 195
  7. skeel.info = 170
  8. n2news.com = 167
  9. cheesecakefantasy.com = 156
  10. dir.yahoo.com = 140
  11. uvexs.com = 122
  12. venusandmarz.com = 116
  13. twiztedtattoosupplies.com = 111
  14. positivemoneyideas.com = 106
  15. asymptoticdesign.com = 105
  16. tool.motoricerca.info = 104
  17. oyoy.eu = 101
  18. redroller.com = 99
  19. tomris.com = 89
  20. domain.com = 88

Top most linked Google answers

  1. Webmaster Help Center - Webmaster Guidelines = 44 [-30%]
  2. Webmaster Help Center - Link schemes = 13 [+18%]
  3. Webmaster Help Center - How do I request reconsideration of my site? = 13 [+85%]
  4. Webmaster Help Center - How do you compile the list of links shown below some search results? = 11 [+10%]
  5. Webmaster Help Center - Hidden text and links = 7 [-50%]
  6. Webmaster Help Center - How do I block Googlebot? = 7
  7. Webmaster Trends Analyst - Seattle/Kirkland = 5
  8. Webmaster Help Center - Does Google index dynamic pages? = 5
  9. Webmaster Help Center - How do I use the URL removal request tool? = 4
  10. Webmaster Help Center - Why should I report paid links to Google? = 4
  11. Webmaster Help Center - Duplicate content = 3
  12. Webmaster Help Center - Block or remove your entire website using a robots.txt file = 3
  13. Webmaster Help Center - How do I use a robots.txt file to control access to my site? = 2
  14. Webmaster Help Center - How can I create a Google-friendly site? = 2
  15. Google Analytics Help Center - How do I create a filter? = 2

Hope you enjoyed the numbers .