Blog Statistics: Don’t Get Too Excited, Bloggers October 14, 2007
Posted by Nalts in : Online Video , trackbackFor a while, my blog on online video was getting no more than a few dozen people a day. Then it grew to a few hundred, and eventually to 2-10,000 per day. When I moved it over to this location (hosted instead of using free Wordpress) I noticed a radical drop in daily views.
Then it occured to me. The vast majority of the previous traffic was not to view my daily post. It was people stumbling into legacy posts, or finding my site from search engine queries (for random words). So it’s quite deceptive.
In any event, the lesson is… your blog will eventually gather a steady increase in daily volume. But much of that is likely going to old posts and doesn’t count as a regular audience. To really gauge the impact of your blog, look at the total views to each new post and the quantity and quality of comments.
The good news is that this makes it easier to resist the temptation to stick Google ads and referrer links on this blog. I never have liked those, and with the new modest traffic it would be trivial income.
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Well dang, Kevin, how am I going to get people over to my FAT SISTER NEEDS GROCERY site if not from them seeing my comments here and clicking on the screen name link to see if it’s coming from some institution?
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I am going to try to launch a Blog soon. Any advice you can give Kevin?