Traffic analysis

• US 20060184655A1
• Filed: 12/30/2005
• Published: 08/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cydata Services, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Cydata Services, Inc.
• Inventors: Shalton, Brandon
• Application Number:
  US11/323,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20060184655A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A method, system and apparatus for traffic flow reporting for websites is provided. In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving a request to review traffic of a domain. The method further includes accessing traffic information for the domain. The method also includes accessing link information for the domain. Additionally, the method includes correlating link information with traffic information for the domain to produce a representation of linkages and traffic through linkages. Moreover, the method includes presenting the representation of linkages and traffic through linkages responsive to the request. The method may further include receiving keywords and filtering the link information based on keywords of corresponding websites. In a further embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving a request to review links of a domain. Moreover, the method includes receiving a set of keywords to review. The method also includes accessing link information for the domain. Additionally, the method includes correlating link information for the domain to produce a representation of linkages. The method further include correlating keyword information for websites associated with links to link information in the representation of linkages. The representation of linkages includes representation of keywords on associated webpages. The method also includes presenting the representation of linkages responsive to the request.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a request to review links of a domain;

accessing link information for the domain;

correlating link information for the domain to produce a representation of linkages;

and

presenting the representation of linkages responsive to the request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

accessing link information for the domain includes accessing information related to first-level sites having links to the domain.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein:

accessing link information for the domain includes accessing information related to second-level sites having links to the first-level sites.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

accessing link information for the domain includes accessing information related to first-level sites having links to the domain and second-level sites having links to the first-level sites.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

launching a web crawling application;

receiving link information from the web crawling application;

and

storing the link information in a link database;

and wherein

the link information for the domain is accessed from the link database.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

accessing traffic information for the domain.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

traffic information for the domain comes from a web log of a server of the domain.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein:

traffic information for the domain comes from a traffic database.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

accessing keyword information for the domain;

and wherein

correlating link information for the domain includes correlating keyword information with link information;

and wherein

the representation of linkages includes representation of keywords on webpages.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

filtering linkages in the representation of linkages based on presence of keywords at a corresponding website.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

filtering linkages in the representation of linkages based on absence of keywords at a corresponding website.

12. A method, comprising:

launching a web crawling application;

receiving link information from the web crawling application;

and

storing the link information in a link database.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving keyword information from the web crawling application;

and

storing the keyword information in the link database.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

seeding the web crawling application with links from a database of links.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

seeding the web crawling application with domains from a database of links.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

seeding the web crawling application with domains from a list of domains.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

seeding the web crawling application with domains from a web search engine results list.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

seeding the web crawling application with manually entered domains.

19. A method, comprising:

receiving a request to review traffic of a domain;

accessing traffic information for the domain;

accessing link information for the domain;

correlating link information with traffic information for the domain to produce a representation of linkages and traffic through linkages;

and

presenting the representation of linkages and traffic through linkages responsive to the request.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

launching a web crawling application;

receiving link information from the web crawling application;

and

storing the link information in a link database;

and wherein

the link information for the domain is accessed from the link database.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

requesting traffic information from a server;

receiving the traffic information from the server;

and

storing the traffic information in a traffic database;

and wherein

the traffic information for the domain is accessed from the traffic database.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein:

the representation of linkages includes a count of direct linkages to the domain and a count of direct linkages to sites having direct linkages to the domain.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein:

the representation of linkages includes a count of traffic along a direct link and a count of traffic along a link to a site resulting in traffic along a direct link.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein:

the representation of linkages further includes a count of secondary sites having direct linkages to sites having direct linkages to the domain where the secondary sites each have links to at least two sites having direct linkages to the domain.

25. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

monetizing presenting the representation.

26. The method of claim 19, wherein:

the method is performed by a processor executing a set of instructions, the set of instructions embodied in a machine-readable medium.

27. A method, comprising:

receiving a request to review links of a domain;

receiving a set of keywords to review;

accessing link information for the domain;

correlating link information for the domain to produce a representation of linkages;

correlating keyword information for websites associated with links to link information in the representation of linkages, the representation of linkages including representation of keywords on associated webpages;

and

presenting the representation of linkages responsive to the request.

28. The method of claim 33, further comprising:

filtering linkages in the representation of linkages based on presence of keywords at a corresponding website.

29. The method of claim 33, further comprising:

filtering linkages in the representation of linkages based on absence of keywords at a corresponding website.