As I stated already, most traffic isn't from the search engines, although their spiders crawl over us every time. But our presence and standing in the cybersearch increase by the day.
It is not an aim for NG to become a big community as far as traffic quanitity goes. We are entirely devoid of any revenue depending on traffic volume as such. However, a site can be influential by means of the community participation and the quality of content generated. This is the direction in which the Team hopes NG will follow.
From my present Norwegian location,
Google.com: #1 .com #2 .net #3 FZ
Google.no : #1 .com #2 .net #3 FZ
Bing : #1 .com #2 FZ #3 .net
Duckgogo : #1 .com #2 FZ #3 .net
Thus, although we currently aren't pushed on top of the search stack (not unexpected, as we don't do anything to make that happen), we are directly visible to anyone searching for 'nikongear'. My guess is that the nikongear.net site will surpass the .com version in the foreseeable near future as that site pair continues its current trend of diminished influence. Many of the newcomers to NG have membership on FZ and there is no need for them to think of "site preference" because both communities, hopefully, can and should co-exist happily. Thus do site hopping as much as you like ....
