November
7
2007
How often do you check the stats of your blog?
do you know:
- how many visitors a day you are getting?
- How long they stay?
- What they look at?
- Or where they come from?
It has only been over the last week or so that I have actually started really looking, AND ANALYSING my stats.
Before that I would just randomly check how many visitors I was getting every couple of weeks, notice there was no improvement and feel a bit dejected.
The biggest thing that I got from analysing my traffic is finding out that I get a very substancial chunk of my traffic (almost 50%) from one source - Digital Point Forum.
Why was I getting That Much Traffic From A Forum
The next thing I needed to do was figure out why I was getting all this traffic from Digital Point, because it wasn’t like I was posting like crazy, and the link in my signature just says ‘Entrepreneur Blog’ and links to here.
What I worked out was the key was the rss feed that showed my latest blog post with every comment that I made on the forum, and the more intriguing the post title the more visitors I got.
Now What Do I Do?
Make the most of it of course. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to go and spam the forum just so people read my post title and want to click through and visit my blog.
What I have been doing for the last couple of days is:
- posting questions that I would usually just ask a friend, or search the internet for - ones that start a discussion.
- posting a replying more frequently than usual
- Making sure I have interesting post titles to capture their interests
So What Happened?
In the last two days I not only see my daily unique traffic double, with 92 unique views from DigitalPoint yesterday alone, but my rss count has also doubled as well. And if you look at the picture above that is my alexa ranking over the last
It was just one simple thing that has improved the traffic to my blog so much, it makes me think what other little things I could be doing to improve my blog.
If you liked this post, I would appreciate it if you subscribed to my rss feed!
No wonder I am seeing you actively posting around the forum these few days… You are actually up to something.
I only analyses my traffic once a week and getting to know the source of all the traffic is really important for us to know on which site we need to improve our presence to get more traffic out of it.
DP is really a great forum for webmasters with the function that you have highlighted above. It also allows links and affiliate links in the signature which I find this really beneficial to me and you.
Rich kid, hope to see you around DP then.
I check my stats to often… do you have a post for statsaholics like the domainoholics
I was an active member of DP with a posting rate of about 20. But once I started blogging, I stopped forum posting. I can’t find time for everything.