Another small update on the traffic growth of the three blogs I have been tracking, now that the November stats are in. You’ll see previous posts here and here.
The first blog, a current affairs blog. May seem to be a little bit of an aberration in relation to the natural traffic growth pattern of this blog. I believe the blog was linked to from an inner page of the BBC’s site during that month and therefore received a spike in traffic that may explain the drop and ensuing resumption of approximately steady growth over the next months.
The second of the three blogs we are following is a health related blog. Astonishingly, there seems to be a spike in the May traffic for this blog too, but I do not recall any corresponding stimulus for this jump. It could be a general increase in health related searching surrounding the swine flu pandemic.
finally, and perhaps most interestingly, is the expat/living abroad related blog. Its traffic pattern shows a slightly skewed curve centered around September – is this the peak travel month between the two principal countries mentioned on the blog?
I hope this small series of posts offers some insight in to natural blog traffic growth rates. I’ll continue to post updates on this small project at approximately 2-3 month intervals.
What Stat program are you using? I find that Google analytics is probably one of the better ones out there since it give you a truer sense of how many visitors you have, many of these other stat programs count robots and general pings to your site.
However that being said I wouldn’t get to wrapped up in stats, you can have great traffic and no one commenting or emailing you.
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Interesting. This is the sort of information that most blogs don’t share so it’s refreshing to see someone actually taking the time to do it. Thanks for the quality information.
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I think Google Analytics is a more better way of checking traffic growth rather than other stats.But still it is interesting to see the different amount of growth of the blogs.
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