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What is "good traffic"

Posted by devilsfan • 7/21/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog, content, hits, keywords, Marketing, traffic

I have a blog that is about 2months old, and it is getting an average of 30-50 hits per day. Is that good. I am aware it takes time (years) and am in it for the haul, but I read all these posts about increasing traffic, and I am satisfied with my content (could be a little more keyword effective) and satisfied with my marketing efforts, but it would be nice to have a benchmark of sorts for 3months, 6months, 1year, 2years,3,4,5years

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7/21/09

cookingasshole

I had the same question a while ago. Where you are now is pretty darn good as long as your bounce rate is legit. I would keep an eye on that and how many are returning visitors. You want quality traffic.

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1. 7/21/09
  
  devilsfan
  
  My bounce rate is in the high 50%range. My percent new visitors is 49%. My avg time on site is just over 6min. But, since ALL of this is new to me, I am not sure exactly what I should be taking from those numbers. My actual average per day is 32., but on days I post something new, there haven't been less than 45.
2. 7/21/09
  
  cookingasshole
  
  I would be happy with that after two months
7/21/09

dcarroll

It has been said many times, content is king, promotion is queen.
You are the benchmark, since every blog is different.

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7/21/09

weblogian

Here is a post I wrote about building your blog empire - how to build, control and optimize a blog to get maximum exposure and profit. You are the emperor of your blog, and as a blog Emperor (owner) you have full power to do anything in your blog (empire). But there are also many kings within your blog and you have to administer and rule them wisely in other to expand or survive. It involves strategy, policy and ideas to achieve that.
www.blogcastor.com/how-to-build-a-great-blog-empire/

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7/21/09

timethief
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