It’s the time to recap how many visitors we attracted for the month of January for this blog. For those of you who are new to this blog, this is my tradition of sharing the traffic report. I am please with the growth of traffic for last month. We saw an increase of visitors compared to December. I think this is down to two main reason.
1. Interview Patricia Millman from LavenderUses.com
Last month i interviewed Patricia from Lavenderuses.com. She may not be the biggest blogger in the blogosphere but definitely one of the best net-worker. After the interview was published, she took all the efforts to promote the post and inviting her blog friends to visit this blog, commenting in it. Not only there was a surge on visitors, i was also introduced to new bloggers whom i never met before. I would like to thank Pat for the support. Thanks Pat.
2. More traffic from search engine
Last month onwards, i started to see more traffic coming from search engine. That was unintentional. When i crafted my post, i never think of search engine. I just write whatever that comes to my mind. One of my post climb to Google page #1 and attracted 100 over visits till date. Will i concentrate on SEO for my next post? I admit it’s important but i don’t like to write for search engines, it’s people who are the most important consideration for me.
How many visitors do i have?
Lets see the comparison with the traffic from December.
Monthly Visits: 1,400 up from 1,107 (Nov)
Pageviews: 3,366 up from 3,042 (Nov)
Bounce Rate: 52.00% up from 48.69% (Nov)
Absolutely Unique Visitors: 554 up from 423 (Nov)
Alexa Ranking: 123,749 down from 112,144 (Nov)
Subscribers: Currently 35
We are progressing. It is a slow process but i am actually quite happy. I always mention the fact to have people reading my blog is a breeze. To build a successful blog needs a lot of patience and i think i am far too patience. But it’s ok. I am just enjoying the process of writing, interacting and reading other blogs. Have a few bloggers to thank for as they directed some of their visitors to this blogs with the mentions and links. Below is the top 10 traffic source:
1. Tristan Higbee from BloggingBookshelf.com
2. Adam Paudyal from Endeavor-Online.com
3. Alex Whalley from AlexWhalley.com
4. Patricia Millman from LavenderUses.com
Thanks for the support.
The next few days will probably see a drop in traffic as i will not be posting until Sunday. Tomorrow is a big holiday for us as it is the first day of lunar Chinese New Year. We will not be working in first and second day of the new year. Whenever new year arrives, it means reunion time. Today we will be in my parents’ house enjoying the reunion dinner. The next few days will see us visiting relatives, gathering and chit chat about work and life. While travelling, there will be a lot of noise as lion dance troupes will be making all the noise on the road. Kids are extremely happy during this period as they will be getting a lot of “red packets” containing money and well wishes from adults.
I understand most of you do not celebrate Chinese New Year but i would still like to wish you “Happy New Year”.
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Hi Lye,
Great results you have, everything over-all went better than the last stats. Congratulations on your excellent progresses. Keep up the good work!
Best regards,
Maria
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Hi Maria,
Thanks for the well wishes. Appreciate your support.
Lye
Hi Lye
Solid progress bro. I’m surprised your visits and Alexa ranking are still there there abouts – you have established a strong community over here and the quality of posts have been very good. Keep up the good work. Talk soon Michael
Keep
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Hi Michael,
It’s great to have the regular support of friends and visitors. I just hope to continue providing value.
Thanks for taking the time to comment brother.
Lye
Nice one Lye, I can see that your blog is really progressing. And as times goes on, all will be great. Wish you the same
Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Samuel,
I am please with the growth for January. Thanks for the support and comments.
Lye
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The only thing which matters is the result
and you are progressing in the result
keep posting
Congrats dude…I know you’ll be rocking the Feb
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Hi Dino,
Thanks, i will be working hard for February. Appreciate your support.
Lye
Happy Chinese New Year Lye!!
Mate I really appreciate these posts because they show genuine transparency and honesty – something that is lacking in the blogging world. WHen all the dust settles, your blog will be getting thousands of hits from up and comers who want to see what the reality of a blogs growth is!
Oh and btw, 460 organic visitors is a really good amount of Search Engine Traffic – that’s like 30% of your traffic mate!
(my SEO traffic never accounts for more than 25% so you are doing well there mate!)
Awesome stuff LYe, oh – and you are welcome for the referrals, but its your fault for putting out good content in the first place.
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Hi Alex,
Thanks for the well wishes. Part of the reason is to let people know how i do. I hope they will have a guide on the traffic they will attract. If they want to increase more traffic, they need to work harder and do more. No two ways about it.
Thanks for all the support and comments. Really appreciate you taking the time to drop by.
Lye
Love transparency and all that jazz Lye. Congrats on your growth man and a Happy New Year my friend. May you have a wonderful time with family and friends.
Marcus
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Hi Marcus,
I love to be as transparent as i can. Thanks for the well wishes and the comments. Hope you have a great day too.
Lye
i am also like you buddy as i also concentrate writing for real people rather than the google spiders..in all the posts of mine till date, i have not done SEO in even a single post.
congrats for the good stats..they will move up
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Hi Tushar,
It’s the same for me, we just have to concentrate on writing post that helps. That’s the most important thing.
Thanks for visiting and commenting.
Lye
This was really awesome to see. Congratulations on doing so well with your traffic! My blog’s so small that when I saw I had 33 views yesterday, i was ecstatic, lol.
Delena
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Hi Delena,
Thanks for the well wishes. Just keep on writing and promoting, i believe things will certainly improve. Most important is to keep your passion burning.
Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Lye
Nice going Lye!
Those are pretty good improvements for 1 month!
Keep up the good work
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Hi Amr,
I am quite please with how things progress. Thanks for the kind words and encouragement.
Lye
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Lye,
Great achievements man. It is great to see that you are doing some awesome stuffs.
Happy new year to you buddy. Have a good time!
Later.
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Hi Adam,
Thanks for the new year wishes brother. I will keep on working hard for this blog.
Thanks for dropping by and the comments.
Lye
Good job Lye, you’re on the right path. I think the problem of writing for the search engines vs. writing for humans is misleading. Keep writing for the humans and you’ll do well with Google too.
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Hi Aloys,
That’s what i prefer to do. Write for the humans. Ultimately it’s people who are reading.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye
Yeah, people may end up giving you backlinks, while the search engines won’t
Keep doing this long enough and the engines will be forced to give you the credit
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Great work Lye.
It is awesome to see things are going well for you and your blog. Keep at it and I’m sure it only gets better!
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for the encouragement,need to work hard to keep it going.
Appreciate the support.
Lye
Apparently the frequency with which you post to your blog affects your monthly traffic a lot. For me it really doesn’t yet as most of my traffic are to my old posts. Guess it’s one of those things with offering full RSS feeds via email
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Hi Udegbunam,
There isn’t any intention on the traffic in mind with my posting frequency. I agreed it certainly plays a part on the traffic. Most important is exceptional content.
Thanks for the comment.
Lye
Patricia from lavenderuses.com is a great woman, I love her she has been my role model when I start a blog a couples of months ago. I appreciate the achievements that you have from the number of your visitors to the bounce rate. Congrats Lye!
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