How much Search Engine help does a blogger really need?
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I joined Technorati and that’s all that I can remember. Maybe it’s the only such organization I joined. I think I began registering with others but got so tired of the process that I never followed through with whatever they required of me.
But maybe I should have!Question:
If a person just blogs consistently with fair content and with only Technorati giving an assist for traffic, is that enough? A couple of weeks ago I had a Site Meter Average Daily Hits of 1004. That was with just Technorati, as far as I know.Now for so me reson, my Site Meter Average Daily hits is down to the low 700’s. Could my blog have gotten that unpopular in just a week?
lornakismet
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WordPress.com blogs have a lot of traffic and search engine juice even without the help of outside services. And blog traffic can vary a lot for reasons that are entirely natural.
@lornakismet, go to your main WordPress blog stats page. Click on the graph dot for 2009-09-11. Look at the search engine terms for that day. You were getting a large amount of traffic from some search terms that I’d describe as “seasonal”. People are no longer searching for those terms in great volumes.
It’s not that your traffic has dropped. It was unusually high before, now it’s back to normal.
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Dear Tellyworth….. thank you for that detailed instruction! I did what you said and saw that on Sept. 9 ’09, there were many visitors to my blog, probably due to focus on one topic that the public wanted to learn about.
But you know what sort of pecks at my heart? I noticed that if we disregard that unusually high spike in viewership, the trend for my blog is….. DOWNWARD.
I work so hard on it that to see a downward trend is not just a surprise, but a disappointment. In some ways, a fear that I am just not a good enough blogger.
lornakismet
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@lornakismet click on the Weeks tab of your main stats graph to get a longer term view – looks like an upward trend to me.
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Tellyworth…… Well, I did click onto the Weeks tab of my main stats graph, and then…… and then I clicked onto the MONTHS tab. That tab does show a downward trend.
I saw a video that was in an email that I get from One Cool Blog, a terrific site with tips for bloggers which I don’t always read through and through. I clicked onto a video by a famous blogger who also is a famous writer (of books). In that video he said that he does not like the idea of having an RSS feed on a blog because it reroutes the viewer to somewhere off the blog footprint. I thought that he made good sense so I deferred to his experience and wisdom and deleted the RSS post feed from my main blog.
An hour later I went to check out his blog for more tips and ideas……. and damned if there wasn’t an RSS feed in the upper right hand corner! So I put my RSS feed back.
lornakismet
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@lornakismet your months tab shows an even bigger upward trend. There’s a big drop for October because we’re only a few days in.
Even if you ignore the August and September figures (where there was a big month), you’ve still increased your traffic by more than tenfold since November 2008. That’s a very strong upwards trend.
Traffic fluctuates for all sorts of reasons. Don’t let the short term fluctuations disappoint you. In particular when it’s the downward leg of a huge temporary jump, which is what you’re looking at right now.
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/nod to tellyworth.
People’s focus ebbs and flows with what is going on in their lives, in their communities, and in the world. I’ve seen my hits drop by as much as a third for a month or two and then climb right back up to eclipse my previous highs. Don’t look at short-term fluctuations, always look at the overall trend.
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Dear Sacred Path and Tellyworth…
You have a way of making a blogger feel comforted. That is so appreciated. Thank you.
lornakismet
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