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Post edited 8:38 pm – December 8, 2010 by sandy@yesiamcheap

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Wow, your readers really explore your site.  I get about that many visitors a day but much less pageviews.  My growth is very slow, and very gradual but I can see for the past 6 months that there is a definite upward trend line. One thing that I tried was spinning the occasional article or the most popular one for the month and submitting it to an ezine group or two.  It's a different traffic source but works.

Traffic growth can be completely random. One month you get a few strong backlinks, Google loves one of your post, and your traffic hits record levels. The next month it seems like nobody cares. Stick with it.

I was flat from oct-nov, though with the recent features hope that december will be a bit better. My feedburner has been basically flat for more than a month as well… think it's part of the cycle.

I've had lots of plateus.  Keep plugging away and you'll see growth.

Everyone, I truly appreciate the feedback thus far!  It is so hard when you are starting out because you don't know what is normal, what you are doing well, what you aren't doing well, etc.  I will just keep on writing and try and learn some SEO tricks I suppose.  I do know that my google traffic jumped from around 15 to 40 percent almost overnight it seemed, and I have absolutely no idea why.  I did try linking between my own posts more but I cannot imagine that is what caused the jump.  I am just afraid it will go away as quickly as it came!

freeby50 said:

I've seen major plateaus.  Over 32 months so far me the pattern thus far has been : 11 month initial boom growth, 4-5 month plateau, 7 month growth spurt, 4 month plateau and now working on 5 months of growth.

My views / visitor ratio is at 1.4.   You seem to hitting over 3 views / visitor.  So that seems quite good.  Have you looked into that more?  In google analytics there is a 'depth of visit' chart under visitor loyalty.  Might be interesting to see what % of your visitors hit multiple pages.    You can also try and see if your visitors are hitting a specific page or link as their 2nd pageview.

 

It took me around 12-18 months to hit your visitor rate.   I still have no page rank from Google or Alexa.

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Hmm.  I haven't really thought about reader 'loyalty' before because I guess I don't know how to impact that one way or the other.  For the last month, mine breaks down like this (numbers are similar for past 3 months also):

1 page view:  1.2%

2 page views:  71.3%

3 page views:  1.2%

4 page views:  12.7%

5 page views:  1%

6 page views:  6%

 

Average amt of page views is 3.3

I have no idea what people are looking at for the second page.  Perhaps it would do me well to learn Google Analytics better….

Thanks for the response!

Kris

Kris,

 

I feel your frustration.  I am in that same plateau range I got you by 120 or so on visitors/day but you KILL my pageviews.  Just keep plugging away, your site's stickiness is amazing and something I envy. 

MyJourneytoMillions said:

Kris,

 

I feel your frustration.  I am in that same plateau range I got you by 120 or so on visitors/day but you KILL my pageviews.  Just keep plugging away, your site's stickiness is amazing and something I envy. 

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I don't know, maybe I am looking at a different place than everyone else for pageviews because I can't imagine mine are that much different from everyone else's.  (By the way, the 230 visit avg is during the week.  I decline on weekends.)

 

For instance, when I cut and paste the stats from the last 30 days from Google Analytics, this is what I get from the dashboard: (Nov 8-Dec 8):

Site Usage

Is this where everyone else is looking?  Am I screwed up somehow?  (Wow, my Google Analytics ignorance is really on display today!)

everydaytips said:

 For the last month, mine breaks down like this (numbers are similar for past 3 months also):
 

1 page view:  1.2%

2 page views:  71.3%

3 page views:  1.2%

4 page views:  12.7%

5 page views:  1%

6 page views:  6%

 

Average amt of page views is 3.3

I have no idea what people are looking at for the second page.  Perhaps it would do me well to learn Google Analytics better….

Thanks for the response!

Kris

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For me I've got :

1 view : 83%

2 view : 9.5%

3 view : 3.4%

4 view : 1.4%

5 vew : 0.7%

6 view : 0.4%

etc

with 1.36 average page views.

 

You might look in analytics under Content > Navigation Summary.    That might give you an idea where people end up on their 2nd click.

For me the 'about me' page is where 11% of my traffic ends.  That may or may not be normal but it kinda makes sense that people would often end on a general topic page like that one.

Ok, now I am on a mission.  I use statcounter for my visits, in addition to Google analytics.  Shouldn't my pageviews in Analytics compare pretty closely with my page loads in statcounter?  Well, my analytics page views are definitely higher than what statcounter shows for pageviews.  I am wondering if something is awry with my google analytics code or something.  Plus, my bounce rate is 1.5 percent, which is ridiculously low.  So something must be amiss.