Dominic Foster

Web Stats

I downloaded my Web Stats for the weekend today and had a pleasant surprise. The total number of Visitors was 319. Quite a nice birthday present.

My previous daily visitor record is 185.

How did this happen? I’m not sure exactly, but here is my analysis of my Web Stats for 14th of August.

22% of my vistitors were referred by another Web Page. The rest were repeat visitors.

Of this 22%, about 92% came from ProBlogger.

So then, it’s off to see what Web Pages people are clicking through from ProBlogger.

Of all the visitors from ProBlogger - 43% came from its Sunday landing page, and 49% from the post titled 31 Days to Building a Better Blog - Day 14.

So I clicked on the above link - and there is a short post which mentions my The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging post which I lashed together on Friday.

And there, I believe, is proof that commenting on other Blogs can increase the traffic to your own Blog.

Also, believe it or not, I am writing this post on the fly. I was actually half way through before seeing that Day 14 post by Darren Rowse. I thought I had a real mystery on my hands to try and find out the spike in my visitor numbers. I guess it goes to show that you should pay attention to your Web Stats.

And on that note, I have also noticed some interesting Search Queries from people arriving from Google and MSN - which have given me topics to Blog about to increase traffic - now that I know what some people are looking for.

Finaly, since I believe that one good turn deserves another - I am going to ask you all to go and have a look at Yuna’s Village which is written by Christine Zheng - mostly because of the encouraging comment at ProBlogger about my Purpose of Blogging post - but also because the most recent post at this time of writing - Secrets Are Out – Webmaster Revealing Blog Readers’ Behavior is about Web Stats - and it is funny.

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