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Gauging Progress is a tough thing to do for a new blog and one of the hardest things for you to do when a blog is only ten days old. it is even harder to gauge the progress than it is to attract visitors. None the less you need to do it, just as much as you need to attract new visitors every day. Let’s take a look at Meme Connection again.
- Since the blog went online we have dropped our Alexa number 3.2M and that is down from 3.5 on Sunday when I checked it last and down from 7.5M on the first. i think I may well meet the goal I set of under 1M by the end of the month at this rate if I keep it up.
- Google has been good to us as well. For the unquoted terms meme and connection the site or sites linking to Meme Connection carry nine of the top ten slots. For a site that went online fifteen days ago that is pretty impressive even if the terms aren’t well searched, since there are 6.5M search results.
- Google Analytics says my visitors thus far are 55% referring traffic, 34% direct traffic, 8% search traffic, and the rest is made up of other and I have no idea what “other” actually constitutes. I do know however that a large amount of the total traffic comes from sites looking at my profile. I also know that a large amount of direct traffic is from twitter, or more precisely from the Twhirl client, which registers as direct rather than referring for some reason. I have seen this happen on other sites using both Google Analytics and other real time metrics programs.
Things I still need to is spend more time commenting on other blogs and putting the name out there. I need to find new members willing to create or submit memes. Lastly I need to keep doing more of what I am doing and researching keywords to use in google that will rank well for Google.
For the record contributors who sign up you get a profile with live links and post links. i do visit every link and those who put up spam crap can expect to find themselves site banned.
All the best with more traffic generation in the new year. Personally my traffic has been suffering for the last couple of months. Things did perk up again in december. Am attributing it to the recession and then the holiday spending.
Hi, guess what? Traffic has picked up this month. I guess the holiday season had many people off the net for a while.
@Mira @Contemporary Dining Chairs – glad to hear things are better.