The Great Blogging Experiment UPDATE!
Just thought I would send out a quick update based on my previous post, the great blogging experiment.
Firstly, July 2008, was the first month my blog had any action on my site, to cap off that month my stats were as follows:
- 98 Visits
- 69 Search Engines
- 16 Referring sites
- 13 Direct Traffic
August 2008, has been the first month of the blog being live for the whole month. I have been quite surprised by some of the statistics.
- 535 Visits
- 104 Search Engines
- 293 Referring Sites
- 138 Direct Traffic
Now I will advise you to ignore both the Referring Sites and Direct Traffic data, this has been influenced by joining a few site networks, and thus I am going to exclude this from discussion and instead focus on the search engine benefit alone.
In June 2008, 2 months ago, search engines only generated 17 visits to my site. Since adding the blog, within 2 month, traffic has increased by around 900% – up to 104 visits. The figures also indicate that the blog section of my site is now the most popular piece of content here, which is not really surprising.
I have also noticed that since I have been adding content on a regular basis, my blog posts are now indexed within hours, and generally less than 2 days. So in theory, I am currently adding between 2-6 pages of new content to the Google index each week. So realistically speaking I should be able to add at least another 200 pages of indexable content in the next 12 months! (easier said than done).
I will provide a much bigger update with more stats soon!
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