Lightning-Quick Visits and Other Web Traffic
Have you ever tried analyzing your site’s web traffic? If you don’t know how, why don’t you install google analytics in your blog. It’s easy! You may also use other tracking sites like that of Sitemeter. Wordpress has its own pre-installed stat counter and some available enhanced plug-ins. But whatever suits your need or your interest will do just fine.
So, let me share my own experience with my web traffic analysis. Though I have been blogging for sometime now, I don’t really care about those stats until recently. I am not yet on the point of being crazy about web traffic though. But the analysis will surely help you in the long run. Where does my traffic come from?
Stumble Upon
I am new to stumble upon, so I am still feeling my way in this kind of social networking. I was just surprised to see the stats.
3 seconds. That’s how quick my visitors from stumbleupon stopover at my site. And what can you do with 3 seconds but move your mouse to the upper right x mark and click away. Or maybe they just read the first four words of the title of your latest post. Or maybe they just look at the title of the blog, and with one blink, fly away. How’s that for a 97% bounce rate? Now I know why some people hate this kind of traffic.
Entrecard
So far, I’ve visited the forum thrice or four times since my entry in this community. I am not so sure if I liked what I saw. But I had fun in their system of dropping, gaining credits and advertising on blogs.
So what about traffic from entrecarders? Do they have that lightning-quick feet that swiftly bounces off after the drop? Maybe yes. Maybe not. Based on my google analytics report, traffic from entrecard stays at an average of 50 seconds. 14 out of 100 visitors do click the “rest of the entry” or other pages on my site. You can do much in less than a minute, but not enough to read my 500+-worded entries.
Then there are visitors from the google search engines. For the last 60 days, I had 1,700 plus visitors from google whose length of stay averaged more than four minutes. Not bad. I credit that to the long list of CPA board passers. Let’s just say that two minutes were spent on looking for the names. Those who passed will smile from ear to ear and tells his friends within the next two minutes or more before he closes the tab. Those who failed will spend the whole four minutes looking for their names, then closes the tab and sighs.
Then there’s the Pacquiao vs Diaz boxing fight. Visitors entering thru this keyword seem to stay longer, almost 10 minutes on average. I have a better SERP position on certain keywords, but I’m not sure if this is what the searchers are looking for. I simply got measly numbers for now. Maybe traffic will increase on fight day itself. Other bloggers are better positioned on shorter and more searchable keywords. Well, this is blogging sweetened by keyword hunting.
Other Visitors
Friends will always be friends. Whether they read my blog or not, the bond will never change. 5 of my offline friends read this blog. I got more visits from friendships developed online. I have not really brought all my blogfriends from my other blogs in here, though I posted an announcement. Those who missed that entry will not probably get here unless I make another announcement on the front page and on the latest entry of my blog site. And when they get here, they might probably get lost in the confusion of the identities.
On another note, traffic from forums is not really that much. I don’t have the guts to post a link in these forums everyday. I have not submitted my entries to article directories, too. But I noticed trackbacks from some websites. Yeah, those keyword aggregators!
So, in my 135 days in this blog, how many unique visitors did I have? Sitemeter listed more than 6,700 visits. Google analytics listed fewer because I installed the codes at a later date. Overall, my lightning quick visitors from SU are a mere 7% of the total traffic. Average bounce rate from all traffic is 70%. There is still a lot of room for improvement. Perhaps I’ll try another strategy to increase traffic and lessen my bounce rate.
The more you get serious with blogging, the more you get serious with web traffic and other analysis.
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Ceblogger is a CPA trapped in his cubicle while his mind wanders outside watching the world, and exploring possibilities his mind conceived.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Great article…..I am new to blogging and I have watched my bounce rate soar since using EntreCard; however, I do find it fun to go looking at other blogs to see what they are doing, how they are doing it, and how nice of a design they have.
June 26th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Hi there,
I like your article, a good read!
Interesting point about your Google traffic staying for over 4 minutes! Just goes to show that organic traffic is the best type of blog traffic you can have!
Cheers,
John.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:47 am
As for me, i really dont have any idea how to use that google analytic stuff. Good for you, you got traffic from stumble upon. Ako, i dont know how to use that effectively either. Poor me. You mind teaching me, heheheheh. Are you going to attend the meet up this sunday ceb?
As for me, it’s a brawl between going to church or staying at home to watch pacquiao. heheheh
June 28th, 2008 at 6:11 am
beau71, thanks for liking this article. entrecard is fun. a good percentage of entrecarders do read blogs.
john, thank you very much for the comment. google traffic is the best for monetization.
keith, i can’t attend tomorrow’s eb. i got other plans: church, family, etc… if the eb were today, i can certainly join.
June 28th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Good post. Funny, Im in Cebu right now (been here since wed) but still could not help it but check on my site traffic. Haha. that goes to show, no matter how we try not to mind ‘em, they surely a good numbers to see.
Congratulations.
July 5th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I stumbled here and read your article, but I nearly skipped off straigh taway due to the huge cheesy ad right under the headline. Bad choice - move it down a couple of paragraphs!
July 5th, 2008 at 10:05 am
ceb, off topic. i’m not sure if it’s just my browser but your single post is appearing below.
July 5th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
bloggista, it’s the kind of traffic that we all want.
dizzley, your point is noted. i haven’t really thought much about my ad placement.
glad, my template looks fine using firefox. but i know it won’t look well on IE, specially those of the internet cafes.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:57 am
There are many good ones from which you can choose, and you’ll find the results very useful. You can have your ISP produce a daily, weekly, monthly (etc) report for you to use. They can either be posted on a webpage for you, or emailed directly into your inbox. You’ll need to contact your ISP to find out exactly what services they offer in this regard.