Views and visitors (traffic)
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Have any other bloggers experienced the same situation as I have recently? Starting around 15 Dec ’13, the number of views per visitor has changed dramatically. Historically about 2 to 3 views per visitor, it jumped to 14.6, 12.2, and 18.6! On one day, there were 846 visits from only 58 visitors, and on another, 439 from 24. I cannot believe that people are reloading the site dozens of times in a day. Is there a glitch in the traffic counter?
Thanks.
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Those stats do seem a little odd. Could you keep an eye on them through the holidays and see if they return to normal, and if not, let me know, and I can look into it further for you?
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Please take note of the time the year. The stats on my blogs are so low during this season of the year that if I had not blogged for 8 years I would look at them and be tempted to quit blogging. I don’t do that because this is the perfect time to edit and update posts and to do broken links checks and fix all kinds of things.
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To increase traffic make sure you comment meaningfully on many on other blogs with similar content. See these for Staff tips:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results then that begins with creating and publishing original content ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.
See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/
On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/introduction/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/
If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/01/15/twenty-five-steps-to-increase-blog-traffic/ -
Thanks for the inputs jackiedana and timethief. I will continue to monitor the views. It is very strange. I have almost 4,000 visits this month, compared to an all-time high of 1,200 in Dec ’12. Today is another example of 234 views for 18 visitors, i.e. 13 per.
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