Like any endeavor in life you have to have milestones, land marks, routes, goals and the ability to reroute yourself if an obstacle pops up. Well I have reached one of my goals. While I know I often lament over the fact that "Google Analytics" doesn't always satisfactorily count all my hits, it does count a fair enough share of them for me to gauge progress as I go along. Even if my blogs internal stats give me say 5-10 hits for the day if I see a 2 hit from analytics, I know there were definitely some hits that day.
Now yes I am saying that versus blogger/blogspots internal stats Google Analytics tends to give me 1/4 - 1/3 recognition, which I'm sure for most of my fellow bloggers would be maddening, but is shows me some things that the internal stats don't. Like how long people were on the site, how many pages they visited, what search terms brought you to my page, what pages you found me through. This may seem a little anal, but as a semi social, mostly daily journal/perspective blogger its nice to know which subjects and the amount of detail included in the subjects is appreciated. It seems I get a lot of visits when I blog about the trailers before various movies, and a few hits on my movie reviews. Sometimes I get hits on sporting event blogs, I got quite a few hits after the storm that precursored the flooding down here in the midsouth.
One of my goals was to get more site traffic, whether it be by subject matter, subject title, or my visibility on other sites. While I have somewhat retreated from my interaction on other blogs I still read them and if something gets the juices flowing I respond. One way to drive traffic is to be an interesting person period. Well over the past 2 months I have completely exceeded my goal of an average of 1 visitor a day. For march I averaged about two(march 19th to april 20th, 1 to 30th too but I was looking at current up to today) a day(around 60 visits and 90 page views) and for this 30 day period im over 3 (about 100 visits and 200+ pageviews *dances* "I rock, I rock") now I'm not swimming in responses yet, but hey 1 step at a time, I'm not a gossip blog so most of the things that interest me aren't going to get a lot of agreements, oooh's, aaaaah's and well I be damned's NORMALLY. It has to actually interest you. I'm averaging about 1.5~ pageviews right now, and about 1:00 per viewer(1 minute spent viewing a page).
Now I did read that one of the "flaws" in how analytics records hits, time on site and pageviews is that if you don't go to another page on my site, or just immediately log off that it treats you as a "bounce". A bounce is someone who visits and IMMEDIATELY leaves within about 10 seconds. So if you close the window after reading, or go to a different site even if you spent 3 minutes on a page it won't register. Kinda sucks but hey its still a hit and I will take that now if I could just get more responses.
I guess my next goal should be to continuously average 3-4 hits a day, and 250+ pageviews. That of course will require me to keep up with topical events, post pretty much daily, and make sure my titles and labels are clear. And I like that challenge, I know last year I tapered off for a while before I broke out the gate for the stretch run, and the beginning of this year started off like a snail race, I fully accept those criticisms but right now I'm a posting machine so let's ride it out.
Okay time to bed this I will post again later
Now yes I am saying that versus blogger/blogspots internal stats Google Analytics tends to give me 1/4 - 1/3 recognition, which I'm sure for most of my fellow bloggers would be maddening, but is shows me some things that the internal stats don't. Like how long people were on the site, how many pages they visited, what search terms brought you to my page, what pages you found me through. This may seem a little anal, but as a semi social, mostly daily journal/perspective blogger its nice to know which subjects and the amount of detail included in the subjects is appreciated. It seems I get a lot of visits when I blog about the trailers before various movies, and a few hits on my movie reviews. Sometimes I get hits on sporting event blogs, I got quite a few hits after the storm that precursored the flooding down here in the midsouth.
One of my goals was to get more site traffic, whether it be by subject matter, subject title, or my visibility on other sites. While I have somewhat retreated from my interaction on other blogs I still read them and if something gets the juices flowing I respond. One way to drive traffic is to be an interesting person period. Well over the past 2 months I have completely exceeded my goal of an average of 1 visitor a day. For march I averaged about two(march 19th to april 20th, 1 to 30th too but I was looking at current up to today) a day(around 60 visits and 90 page views) and for this 30 day period im over 3 (about 100 visits and 200+ pageviews *dances* "I rock, I rock") now I'm not swimming in responses yet, but hey 1 step at a time, I'm not a gossip blog so most of the things that interest me aren't going to get a lot of agreements, oooh's, aaaaah's and well I be damned's NORMALLY. It has to actually interest you. I'm averaging about 1.5~ pageviews right now, and about 1:00 per viewer(1 minute spent viewing a page).
Now I did read that one of the "flaws" in how analytics records hits, time on site and pageviews is that if you don't go to another page on my site, or just immediately log off that it treats you as a "bounce". A bounce is someone who visits and IMMEDIATELY leaves within about 10 seconds. So if you close the window after reading, or go to a different site even if you spent 3 minutes on a page it won't register. Kinda sucks but hey its still a hit and I will take that now if I could just get more responses.
I guess my next goal should be to continuously average 3-4 hits a day, and 250+ pageviews. That of course will require me to keep up with topical events, post pretty much daily, and make sure my titles and labels are clear. And I like that challenge, I know last year I tapered off for a while before I broke out the gate for the stretch run, and the beginning of this year started off like a snail race, I fully accept those criticisms but right now I'm a posting machine so let's ride it out.
Okay time to bed this I will post again later
Guest posting and blog-swapping also helps. You don't need my help though. You've been rocking for a long time, man. Since 360.
ReplyDeleteThanks, yeah I have it's just 360 made things so damn easy. It was so before it's time it was like all the best features of every other blogging service social network site we have now combined. the only difference was they didn't realize to add games and apps like facebook did. Or to allow "monetizing" as blogger/blogspot does.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by man, I didn't realize I didn't have your blog link until now