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Posted by RobSellen • 9/17/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogging, Stats, traffic
traffic?
Search engines.
Blogging communities like this.
Forums.
Other blogs.
Or other?
Interesting to see the diversity of traffic and wondered how diverse it really is. :o)
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No-one?
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removed..
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Referring Sites (64.68%)
Search Engines (25.06%)
Direct Traffic (10.26%)-
Interesting. ;o)
Refering sites are like this one.. ;o) -
Yeah and StumbleUpon, Digg, etc.
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Thought so, I posted this above to the wrong reply lol.
I know these sites like stumbleupon and that are not new but it is interesting how they are growing and becoming a better traffic scource.
I think that growth is starting to make some waves in how people find things. :o)
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Google, other blogs of the same topic(papercrafts), and papermodel groups.-
In that order of being best traffic?
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That's right. The traffic drops when I don't post often.
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Over the last week
Referral, bookmark & type-in traffic:
76.4 %
Natural search traffic: 23.6 %
Paid search traffic: 0 % -
Blogcatalog for sure. I just don't have time to be active in other forums so I don't get a lot of traffic from the 3 or 4 I'm registered with. I like this directory, so I spend my time here. I also get a nice amount of traffic from other bloggers' links to mine, which I'm humbled (and thrilled!) by.-
I agree, this place is good for getting traffic, but only as you say the place is used in the way it dshould be.
I like it here, and I do think this place will grow bigger and better by the week, and if we all play our role as we should we can only help the place get better and bigger. :o) -
Yes, I agree with you, Rob.
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Yes, and what you post can make a big difference. One post I did last week got almost 150 hits in one day. Others posts I have done are lucky to get that in a week!-
I agree, BUT there is a big but, how much you promote whatever has the biggest influence on getting that fist traffic hitting that post. ;o)
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Some times to get traffic you need to try something a little different. I have sign up time and time again for sites like blogexplosion or like linkshare and even that new one thats been posted a lot lately. They all are stupid and very disappointing. Ok I let you in on a little seceret.
01 Sep 2007 - 16 Sep 2007 - 1059535 hits
Were do the hits come from ? Not by a search, not a stupid program, and not even from Top Blogs.
But from my Google Gadgets. Now there are some gadgets like these that I put on Top Blogs for the members to use, they are not for google but with simple modification can be. Click the link to see. Now these gadgets are for Web pages such as regular HTML, MySpace, Blogger, Hi5, Xanga, Aim Pages, Bebo, Facebook, Friendster, Live Spaces, Multiply, Pizco, and Tagged.
topblogs.gotoscience.com/index.php?a=stats&u=Missunderstanding
Here is my blog gadget listed in the google dir, notice the gadget is the same as the one above just modified.
www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&url=http://gotoscience.com/gadgets/Gadge...
Check out all my gadgets on google that promote my site.
www.google.com/ig/authors?author=googleGadget%2Bcoolgadget%40Gotoscience.co...
anyway thats it.-
Interesting... ;o)
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I like blogcatalog, I dont really know how much traffic I get But who really cares its fun.
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I've recently been getting more traffic from some Google searches, but I've been getting a lot of traffic from a couple forums where I've put a URL to my blog in my signature. -
Referring sites, 69%,
Direct traffic 26%,
search engines less than 5%...
What are your top traffic sources Rob?-
Not much different to most people.
Reffering sites are best, like this place, blogs, stumbleupon, etc.
Search traffic.
Rss readers. :o)
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Most of my traffic comes from blogexplosion.com/ but it really isn't quality traffic (they come, they go, they don't return). Most of my return visitors have been found through BC. Thanks guys! -
I have always gotten more traffic from being listed on other blogs or websites.
One blog I had got lots of traffic because of one keyword and picture about a best selling video game of all time which was "The Legend of Zelda". Which came from Google. -
A captive audience: my students (for History Survey).
As far as my other blogs go, I haven't looked at statistics recently, but search engine traffic has been pretty low, single digits in terms of percentage. Visitors usually come either through a blog directory (here and also more specialized places), direct, or a couple other history blogs that have been kind enough to link to me. -
I should add that when I am active on other history blogs, I usually see results on my own. Last couple weeks have been hectic though, so not as much history blog reading and writing.
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I don't have a neat program that analyzes my stats like the rest of you do! I need to put that on my list of things to do. I just use my WordPress stats. If I had to guess though, I would think the highest percentage of my traffic comes from other big name sites that carry my articles. Don't really know though!-
I think it is important to have stats.
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I have my regular stats. I guess I don't get into the specifics quite as much as other people. I provide good content and am constantly looking for ways to improve my blog so while I don't analyze specific numbers, I think I am still doing ok. I go by content being king and trust that my site will continue to grow as long as I continue to put the time and effort into it. : )
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All of my aviation news blogs get at least 60% of their traffic from search, mostly Google.
Recently I've been getting a fair amount of traffic from BC -- not from the discussions or my profile, but from people searching on post tags (so in a way, that's search traffic, too.)
My new blog is not old enough to have much of a track record, but it did have a little traffic from search for the first time last week, as well as some from BC and MBL. So far, most of the traffic there has come from 'direct' or from click throughs from emails (I mass-mailed all of our friends and family when we launched the blog, and asked them to pass along the email -- which they apparently did!) -
I have no idea who reads my personal blog besides those who leave comments, and they're mostly other LiveJournal users.
With the blog I have with Blogger I'm actually able to track visitors. There most of my traffic seems to be coming from the site I used to have Mary Quite Contrary on. Makes sense, really, since old readers from that site would start trickling over to the new one.
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Search traffic is anywhere from 10% to 30%.
Referring sites (like this one) are 50%-70%
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80% Google, the rest from a jumble of sources. Google organic traffic is dropping though overall, a lot more coming from relevant sites which is good.-
And the more relevant sites that drive traffic to you, the more google will like it. ;o) so that will balance out what drop you see now. ;o)
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My top sources are Blogger, BC and Google. -
My biggest SCOUCRES are chocolate and licorice-
just kidding... // it's search engines by about 80%
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1)Search engines (mostly Google, but I get some traffic from MSN, less from Yahoo).
2) Links on other blogs.
3) Clicks from networks such as this.
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I looked it up and found:
50.84% Referring Sites
43.65% Search Engines
5.52% Direct Traffic
It's been pretty steady around those percentages for a few weeks. Before that, my tags and titles were all over the place so I wasn't getting much search engine traffic. -
on my politics blog I have been getting a lot of traffic from Digg. my traffic is still newbie low but it is increasing and I can already see the impact in my Adsense (which is still at a very picayune $1.50. But the dollar took almost three months to accumulate and the fifty cents is all in the last three days since I started Digging my political rants... -
mostly through refering sites. I'm the blog rolls of friends blogs and similiar blogs and i post my blog link on personal profiles like myspace and facebook.
But a fair chunk of it is direct traffic - people who favorite my blog and come back, or i just tell people: "hey, visit rhysrodgers.com"
I only get a veeeery small amount from search engines.
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