Blog traffic

DavaoBruce · 2009-02-08T09:54:30+01:00

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DavaoBruceGuest08 February 2009 07:54:30

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We all have a blog and we like traffic. We also have some amount of revenue generating ads on our site. Some pay per page view and some only if ad is clicked. You are also rated by the percentage of visitors/pageviews.

So many sites will advertise your site or someway get traffic IF you visit an predetermined amount of other members sites.
so what many do, and I was guilty of this at first, is right click on many sites to open in new tabs, get my credits and then just close all the tabs.

What you then get is many hits with 00:00 time on site. What this ends up doing is lowering your visitor/pageview ratings.

We spend our time and energy writing about our lives and experiences and would like people to read what we wrote.

I have started a campaign writing in the forums about this situation. I have also decided I will remove my membership from those sites if this continues.

I welcome any comments

I am not talking about this site, but we all know the ones we are talking about. I use sitemeter.com to track my hits and I can see what site the visitors came from. With this information you get to see where the bad traffic is coming from.

Most of us here are intelligent people and will understand my feelings. I hope we can all follow this campaign and try to clean up the virtual world we now are part of.

I am not a programmer, but it would be nice if someone build a site giving credits based on time on site, pages viewed and if comments to the content are left.

NicoleBSerial expat08 February 2009 08:33:14

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I quit using those Sites a while back.
They are not worth my effort, nor time.
I have a good amount of people coming via comments I leave on their Sites, via Photography projects and via search engines.
I'm not gonna get rich that way, but it serves my purpose

DavaoBruceGuest08 February 2009 11:32:31

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Nicole,

I am learning my lesson too. After I moved my blog from blogspot to my own domain, I was looking for ways to get readers.

I decided to learn and read about other expats and how their lives have changed. I now use this site and a few others to find those sites and read and comment.

Just recently I have been getting more comments, which I had never received many in the past. I am hoping to develop an active readership where everyone will share and comment on each others opinions.

I have even thought of adding a forum site where there will be topics like here.

Mark SidNew member07 May 2009 12:08:50

Get on the radar screen for the popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! by submitting your blog's URL to them. Most search engines provide a 'Submit' link (or something similar) to notify the search engine of your new blog, so those search engines will crawl it and include your pages in their results.
It's important to understand that simply submitting your blog to search engines doesn't mean your pages will appear at the top of a Google search results screen, but at least your blog will be included and will have the chance of being picked up by a search engine.

davidwittMember11 May 2009 22:50:03

don't take bounce rates or time on site too personally. many people that stumble upon blogs are either reading the front page (which often has dozens of postings) or have you in an RSS reader. for these folks, you will likely get a bounce of 100% and a low time on site since closing the browser terminates the visit. the only way time on page can be recorded is if there is activity after reading the page. a better metric might be depth of visit- how many pages "deep" do your visitors click.

90% of the blogs that i come across i leave almost right away- the design is poor, the content is not what i expected, too many ads, etc. i think this is true for anybody.

(and the major component of google's page-ranking is not the performance of your blog (i.e. current page views) but the relevance of the content on your blog- both as written and referred back to by other internet sources)

hang in there and report back.

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