Starting from this month, I’m planning to post my blog’s traffic analysis every beginning of the month here. I always love looking at the numbers whenever a blogger posts his/her blog’s stats. Sometimes it amazes me and motivates me. I hope this motivates you too (if you are a new blogger, especially).
I "officially" started blogging in October 2007. I made a rough post about my new PDA phone, the HTC P3600i in September 2007. Surprisingly, the post got 10-20 hits a day from Google. It also appeared on the first place in Google Search Results (it still is when I’m writing this post – with keywords: "p3600i review"). Since then, I started blogging more seriously and took out the commitment. It’s tough, especially since English is not my first language (excuse)
Alright, I better stop my ramblings for now. Here is my last month’s statistics from Google Analytics if you’re interested.
In January, I had 3820 visitors, from:
- Search Engines 2,854 (74.71%)
- Referring Sites 798 (20.89%)
- Direct Traffic 167 (4.37%)
- Other 1 (0.03%) <—– does anyone know where does this come from?
In February the figure was almost doubled to 6264 visitors! The breakdowns:
- Search Engines 3,597 (57.42%)
- Referring Sites 2,149 (34.31%)
- Direct Traffic 518 (8.27%)
The top referring sites: 776 Traffic from Entrecard, followed by 617 Traffic from StumbleUpon.
I’d like to give a big appreciation to the Entrecard community, not just for adding some numbers, but also for the great community! I’ve made some new friends in there. Fellow bloggers that help each other out and support one another. It’s like having a second world. Feels virtual, yet real.
But most of all, I’d like to thank those "518" Direct Traffic visits. You are my loyal readers. It is you that motivates me the most. It also gives me pressure, to always find and post contents that interest you. It’s okay. It’s good.
The road is still long, but no matter what happens, as long as I can still blog, I’ll continue on. There’s always something new. There’s always something to share. There’s always something to tell 
Til next month!
PS: I love constructive criticism. I always want to be a better person. If there is anything that you’d like to share (some feedback), about me, this blog, the writing style, or whatever, please feel free to leave them in the comments here!
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Keep up the good work, nice makeover with new theme!
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Your traffic is awesome. I guess I need to post what mine was for this past month. I just officially got started in Feb 2008 and have been committed to it all month. Of course, I will be back for more on your blog.
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Wow, I envy those direct traffics you got. Did the Entrecard traffic affected your bounce rate? When I looked at most entrecard users’ blogs, bounce rates are really way way more than what the experts are saying should be the threshold – about 20 – 30%.
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Thanks guys, the traffic is nothing to be proud of, really. Lots of people out there get tons of traffic on the first month of their blogging.
Roel, I’ve got about 85% bounce rate for Entrecard’s traffic in total. 59.08% bounce rate for traffic that comes from the search engines. So Entrecard’s bounce rate is high, mainly because some people do chain drops daily. A traffic is a traffic though, and you can only hope that the droppers read at least your top post, stop, and read it
The amount it takes to advertise on my site dropped from 176 to 138 after I stopped dropping EC cards last week. So now I am beginning to think its really not worth the amount of effort you need to put in- because the EC traffic, after the initial spike and influx of new readers, tends to be the same group of people who are not interested in your blog but are just power card droppers.
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I have tried dropping 300 EC’s for 4 days, then I stopped. It was then that I was no. 3 in the EC business category because of that – 210 EC’s to advertise, but now it’s back to 115 EC’s. I am back to my normal 30-60 EC drops a day. That’s all I can do given the limited time I got, plus, I always try to read the posts before jumping on another site. My entrecard blog directory already have several blogs listed in there, plus my EC inbox, I have already enough sites to drop. Maybe its time to discourage chaindropping. But I must admit its thru EC that I stumbled lots of useful blogs.
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