Some simple facts about blog traffic
I stopped for a while today and checked out my Mint installation. Not that I have the tons of traffic, but it’s interesting sometimes to see the hows and wheres of your visitors. And especially your referrers.
Studying these results, I’ve come down to these quick and over-generalised conclusions:
- Technorati is dead. Zilch. Eventhough I use Technorati tags, I have minuscule traffic coming from the once “centre of the blogosphere”. People moved on.
- I would extend my above point to all blog aggregators, but as always, Greece is always two to three years back in terms of web acquaintance. So the only real traffic I have from aggregators concerns Greek-only services.
- Social networking sites and tools like Facebook and Twitter always bring in a decent amount of people. In fact, Twitter is even better than pinging blog aggregators that your blog is updated, because by using it, you’re pinging real people. And if you keep it short and not too dense (I only write three posts per week), people will actually thank you for letting them know you blogged.
- Providing a link to a Google blog post will provide you tons of traffic, guaranteed.
- Microsoft should really, really develop a Mac version of OneNote. People are actually begging for it.
technorati, facebook, twitter, oh who am I kidding - noone reads these anyway
September 26th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Leaving decent (not spam!) comments on other blogs, always brings some traffic back, or has an even better outcome, new feed subscribers.
Google Search is also a major traffic source, however it is not that easy to gain a place on the top results of popular search terms.
September 27th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Adding the word “manicure” to one of your posts brings tons of traffic to your blog! believe it or not!