Search me please
Week 5, Done. My unique visitors and page impressions went down overall due to my decreased participation in blogclicker, blogxchange, and blogexplosion. However, my search engine referrals are up, way up, from Google, MSN, and AOL for the last week. Almost 100 people visited me through a search engine and the number keeps climbing.
84 from Google, 9 from MSN, and 2 from AOL, also one from a random search engine.
These results are no doubt due to my increased amount of content and building links. Even though I completed my link goal I am still promoting my site trying to get links and give links. (If you want to swap links contact me.) Both of these efforts have made my page your appealing to search results.
I feel like the direction my blog is taking is a good one. For the past week I have been using addfreestats web statistics to track user experience and I am pleased with the service, and the results. Users from search results tend stick around my site for a bit and check out other posts and categories and stay for more than just a few seconds. That tells me my writing isn’t too poor as of now and that I am providing an interesting read to some people. This information can be invaluable for a site developer. If you don’t have visitor path and time spent as an option I suggest you get a stat service that offers it.
See my article on Google Analytics Alternatives for a review of some of the services out there.
I should have more information on site wide statistics later this week or next week. As I mentioned before I am switching services around and testing whats good. I like addfreestats.com for now and probably will stick with it.