Where do my visitors come from? I check on this every so often to analyze what people are interested in reading and for the purposes of improving this weblog. I was a bit disheartened to see that I am still not receiving much traffic from the search engines. Virtually none from Yahoo or MSN and a very minimal number from Google. Funny because there’s this other blog I maintain with much less traffic but with most of it coming from the search engines. I’ve checked whether my pages are indexed and though they don’t appear so, for some key word searches, they do.
Is it because I have a new domain, which I changed twice and whose title remained static till a couple of weeks ago? Thanks to Kevin from Free The Drones, who pointed out this major gaffe, I was able to fix my page titles for more dynamic display, which will enable the pages to become search engine friendly.
Here are my stats:
If anyone can tell me what could be the reason for my invisibility in search engines other than the dreaded Google sandbox effect, I would so appreciate it! I was quite surprised to hear that John Chow from TheTechZone was incredulous about sites actually existing without Google traffic whatsoever. Sad to say there are many of us out there! But happier to say that thanks to other means, people can still find us.
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If you want to boost traffic from search engines, check out this tool from Axandra.
Have you tried linking your website to other blogs or other high traffic areas? It will boost your ranking as well.
Finally, check out Submit Express for their free search engine submission link as well as the link popularity.
Enjoy!
Brion
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My site was showing up exactly like yours is on Google. When I just typed in “site:thedigeratilife.com†only two results appeared.
I started to get very frustrated when I’d Google “site:ThoughtfulConsideration.com†because I had been doing everything that the other blogs were recommending. At first I thought it might have to do with the amount of traffic, inbound links, etc. that my site had. Then I visited other sites with less content, with the same theme, that hadn’t been around as long as mine, and all their posts showed up in the Google results.
I had installed the Word Press Google sitemaps plug-in more than a month before, and I had been checking in with the Google Webmaster Tools to confirm that my sitemap was being seen.
There’s no way to guarantee that this would work for you, but it did for me:
1. Deactivate and delete the Google Sitemaps plug-in and delete the sitemaps from my web hosting account.
2. Delete the sitemap that Google had downloaded (logged into the Google Webmaster Tools site)
3. Deactivate the Post Teaser plug-in (even though I liked the effect, it seemed to be at least contributing to the problem)
4. Install the latest version of the Google Sitemaps plug-in, activate it, and rebuild the sitemap
5. Confirm that Google downloaded my new sitemap
6. Give Google enough time, and voilá, all my posts started showing up
Unfortunately that didn’t translate into a large, immediate influx of visitors, but at least everything was out there which is the first step in getting it to show up in people’s Google results.
I think this is an excellent post. I was referred by ProBlogger (as have many, no doubt).
was referred by problogger too. great post.
If you want to analyze Traffic source and page rank, you can use http://www.Alexa.com and google page rank. This post gives you the exact Traffic updates of the web.
Alexa is a great tool to use its well worth the monies. If you wish we have a few copies and I am more the happy to run the report for you and send you the details.
Send me an email with your home page to start, search engines you are interested in, and your three most important keyword phrases for the blog.
Its hard to optimise blogs as the message on the page changes as soon as people start to post. On this post should be Analyzing web traffic sources and statistics yet it is Money, Google, Traffic, 2007.
Its great the you give a follow but maybe look at removing it on posts for a while and see if it works better for you. The top commentators is awesome and is enough for us commentators.
Also look at writing articles on other pages, not on the blog but SEO targeted information formatted correctly.
You are still unranked by Google. Wonder why?
I am ranked, otherwise I wouldn’t have traffic
. And I have reasonable traffic.
I’m guessing your traffic profile is quite different now? Strange to see such a small percentage from search though – in my experience most new sites get 50%+ from search and then slowly diversify as they network with more sites.
My sites now get 50% to 60% in search traffic. This data is 2 years old!
Thanks for asking!
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I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.