Dragon Blogger Annual Traffic Summary Report
I have decided to post a full traffic report for 2009 for DragonBlogger.com to show you the results of my first full calendar year blogging. I originally started this blog on August 23rd 2008, so I didn’t have a full year of traffic to show previously. According to Google Analytics (which doesn’t track Su.Pr links or some other traffic sources)
DragonBlogger.com had a total of 141,667 unique visits and 276,532 pageviews for 2009. This is an average of just over 11,000 visits per month, which is much lower than my average of 15,000 visits per month for the 2nd half of the year. My site averaged around 200 visits per day in January 2009 and is now up to almost 400 unique visits per day average over the past few months.
My traffic sources have changed too dramatically over the past few months, for the whole year my traffic sources were 59% from Search Engines, and 25% from referring sites, with 14% from direct traffic. But in the last four months my traffic is around 71% from search engines and about 20% direct traffic, with my referring sites being a lower percentage as I relied less on Entrecard, StumbleUpon and other sources for “quick, but not long term” traffic spikes.
Twitter meanwhile accounts for only about 1% of my blog traffic and falls under the Referring sites. While I still had a staggering amount of traffic coming from StumbleUpon over the past year as my posts were randomly stumbled by readers (and a few by myself). The breakout generally shows that 84,000 of my visits were from Search engines. This is a good thing and a bad thing, the fact that the blog gets so many visits from Google searches means that my blog is indexing well in the search listings and people are searching for things that link to my blog.
The disadvantage however is that should some other site take over some of my popular keywords or categories which Google has me doing well in the search results, I could suddenly see a huge drop in traffic if I were to lose the top 5 search slots for some of those search terms.
My top search terms for the year included 5 related to “Unfollowing” in Twitter, which is one of the highest risking terms for me losing traffic in the future I think. Meanwhile Shiny Search was my #1 keyword and I was in 2nd place behind the company that makes the Shiny Search website. I also have a few for Heroes reviews, which also will likely taper off if the show comes to an end after its 4th Season with the Nielson Homescan which is one of my oldest posts getting a lot of traffic as well.
My top pages that were visited over 2009 are:
This again shows that the Twitter unfollow is one of my biggest traffic sources for single search, my actual “category” page itself brought in 15,028 visits for the year (which is odd that it hit my category than a single article). I don’t know if its a good or bad then when your categories are indexed by Google and the category itself is a high traffic source. I also have some high traffic to a few NBC Heroes reviews, the Nielson Homescan and my post I wrote in September 2008 about Managing your iPOD with Songbird for Ubuntu. Funny that a post I wrote in September 2008 still received over 2300 visits in 2009.
Summary:
2009 was a stellar year for DragonBlogger.com, I was happy to have made some high search engine placements and gain enough traffic to be listed in the Top 10 Technology Blogs listed on IZEARanks.com. This also was great because I saw my Alexa.com rank drop from just over 100k in the first part of the year, to less than 50,000 toward December 2009. I do however have concerns that some of my highest traffic posts will suddenly lose traffic, so I need to constantly generate new content and capitalize and new keywords and tags to keep the content relevant. Writing about content that stays relevant and static for more than a few months is really hard to do in the Technology field as technology changes so rapidly that you can write a post about something in March, and by October it is such outdated information that people will rarely search or read information on it.
That is my full report of my 2009 traffic analysis, I am hoping to at least break 200,000 unique visits in 2010, I would like to be around 30,000 Alexa rank by the end of the year and have an average of 500-600 unique visits per day. I have little control over reaching these goals except for posting quality content and doing the SEO and promotion to help try and get my site noticed.
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