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A quick question about "traffic"

Posted by cookingasshole • 4/10/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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I know this is kind of vague but what constitutes as "good" traffic if the content consists of just your own junk. I know you can get like a million hits for celebrity stuff but what is "good" for the average person? Or is there no scale at all?

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4/10/09

Friday13

I don't know. My blog gets an average of 7 viewers per day

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1. 4/10/09
  
  cookingasshole
  
  right on...anyone else?
4/10/09

timethief

The number of blogs and the wide range of niches they cover is HUGE. Some bloggers are blogging solely for money and others aren't. IMHO there is no scale for what is "good" for the average blogger. Who is the average blogger? Which blogs are "average blogs"?

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1. 4/10/09
  
  cookingasshole
  
  so it is entirely subjective?
2. 4/10/09
  
  timethief
  
  so it is entirely subjective?
  
  Yes. My blogs are not monetized and I will continue to publish for as long as the targeted organic traffic to my blogs does not consistently fall below 100 hits per day for a period of time that exceeds 90 days. That's my own rule of thumb but it's a flexible rule that's subject to change. In the future if I found myself in the position of having 75 faithful readers of my personal blog, then I might find that figure to be sufficient enough to still continue to publish.
  
  Organic Traffic: Organic traffic is any traffic that comes to your site without being paid for. This includes people who visit via links in forums and blogs, traffic from search engines, traffic from word of mouth, or traffic from bookmarks. Organic traffic generally comes to a site naturally and is not driven by marketing campaigns.
  
  Inorganic Traffic: Inorganic traffic is traffic that is pushed via marketing campaigns. Banner ads, search engine ads, etc generate inorganic traffic. Generally speaking this form of traffic is semi-immediate depending on how much you blanket the Web with your advertising and slowly dies out over time unless more money is spent to build a new marketing campaign.
4/10/09

JulesPCaut

For me, good traffic is when the RIGHT people go to and appreciate your site and blog. You'll know that based on comments they leave on your site. Also, if your site is geared towards a certain goal (e.g., people subscribing, people downloading an ebook, etc.) and they are doing that, then you're getting good traffic

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1. 4/10/09
  
  cookingasshole
  
  cool...I was just wondering. I get good feedback and ~50 people visit at ~125 hits per day and since I just started this thing a few months ago I was curious as to if that was a good sign.
2. 4/10/09
  
  cookingasshole
  
  oh yeah...with zero "inorganic traffic"
4/10/09

mylotnovice

100 per day is already a good traffic for a personal blog.

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