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6:03 pm
July 12, 2011
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everydaytips
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Your traffic is great for a 6 month blog.
I guess the answer to your question depends on your goals. If your goal is to interact with a community, then you need to encourage more comments.
If you are looking at traffic only, you are doing fantastic.
Myself, I am frustrated with my site at this time. Traffic is better than ever. However, bounce rate is higher than I like, as is the number of pageviews. However, my SE traffic is around 60 percent, so I am sure those types of numbers are to be expected when someone is just searching for answers. In the end though, I would like people to stick around a bit longer. I don't think I am even averaging 2 pageviews per visit at this point, which is disappointing.
In essence, there is a lot more data needed to understand the success of a blog. Along with metrics, you need to know what is important to you also to measure how well your site is doing.
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6:04 pm
July 12, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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JT, he is using Quancast actually.
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6:06 pm
July 12, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:
JT, he is using Quancast actually.
Yeah I just edited it. LOL. Probbaly the 10th edit.
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6:08 pm
July 12, 2011
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Post edited 6:08 pm – July 12, 2011 by JT_McGee
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6:59 pm
July 12, 2011
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everydaytips said:
Your traffic is great for a 6 month blog.
I guess the answer to your question depends on your goals. If your goal is to interact with a community, then you need to encourage more comments.
If you are looking at traffic only, you are doing fantastic.
Myself, I am frustrated with my site at this time. Traffic is better than ever. However, bounce rate is higher than I like, as is the number of pageviews. However, my SE traffic is around 60 percent, so I am sure those types of numbers are to be expected when someone is just searching for answers. In the end though, I would like people to stick around a bit longer. I don't think I am even averaging 2 pageviews per visit at this point, which is disappointing.
In essence, there is a lot more data needed to understand the success of a blog. Along with metrics, you need to know what is important to you also to measure how well your site is doing.
Very well thought out answer Kris!
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8:22 pm
July 12, 2011
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Pat S
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Awesome responses from everyone! Wow… I'm still learning a great deal about analytics and the lot. Most of my time (which hasn't been nearly as much as I would like) has been spent writing and networking.
With that said, the subscriber count provided was straight from the Feedburner stats for my site, and the Alexa rank is what it is…
As for site visits, I'm measuring straight from the Google visits/day. If the count includes my own visits, then it might be lower that actually reported… (I'm always experimenting with layout and checking grammar etc. even after posting).
I really appreciate all of the feedback, nonetheless and am grateful for everyone getting back to me on this matter.
There were a few questions on SE visitors… to respond, I do get quite a bit of SE traffic from various terms. I'd say around 1/2 of my traffic comes from search engines.
Hope that helps… Like I said thanks to everyone!
Pat
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10:48 pm
July 12, 2011
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Super Frugalette
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Around 100 visitors, Alexa 108K.
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9:35 am
July 13, 2011
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Jeffrey Trull
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I'm just hitting the 6 month mark now. I have around 70 subscribers and get about 60-70 visitors a day. I feel like this is decent for me, but certainly nothing remarkable.
You stats are great, Pat!
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12:58 pm
July 13, 2011
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I think I am a little past the 6 months, plus I had another blog before that links to my new one, and I don't have nearly as many visits as you. I am just starting to get back into being really active with the blog after my busy season at work though, and I am seeing results pretty quickly.
Average pageviews are around 60/day for the past month (up 25% from the prior month). About 50 actual "visits" per day. A little over 3 pages per visit for my readers. As for Alexa, my rank was around 500k, then I stopped being so active, and it quickly was back up at 1.5 million. In about a month, I have it back down to 830k, and hopefully it'll keep dropping.
So I'd say you're doing great for 6 months!!
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8:16 pm
July 16, 2011
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Kay Lynn Akers
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At six months, my stats probably looked like my journey to millions (if not lower even). That was pre-Yakezie and it was harder to get established with a group of bloggers.
After a few months of commenting on their blogs and participating in Carnivals, I started getting more traffic.
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