Proposal: count traffic stats only for paying members.
Ranking searches by traffic causes bot camping on a large scale, to boost a business's traffic thus ranking them higher in searches. Large scale camping causes a drain on resources that is felt by actual participants of SL.
The purpose of traffic statistics is to estimate the popularity of a location. However, camping thwarts this purpose.
If we count traffic stats only for paying SL members, we dramatically increase the cost for bot camp farms, making most of them not cost justified. And for those that are cost-justified, at least the farms are generating revenue for LL, which is of value to all SL residents – bots would be helping to pay for the resources they are using.
The most problematic camping would disappear. Those smaller camp farms that are trying to actually draw players to interesting places to participate could continue to operate.
And the traffic statistic would be far more representative of popularity, though unfortunately representing only a subset of SL players.