Dragon Blogger Traffic Stats for April 2010
By: dragonblogger // Category: blogging // 21 Comments »I have traditionally done earnings reports every month but it has actually been several months since I last posted a true “Analytics” report for DragonBlogger.com. Using the magic of Windows Snipping Tool and Paint.Net I was able to compile all of my metrics into a single image to show readers the stats for April 2010 on DragonBlogger.com according to Google Analytics.

As you can see from the picture, my site had 15,401 Unique visits, with just over 20k pageviews. 75% of my traffic comes from Search Engines which is very very high, only 12% of my traffic comes from referring sites like StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook and other referral networks. 12% of my traffic is direct which is via bookmark or email link from my feed. My site has a 71% bounce rate which is much better than the 80+% bounce rates I was having, this is due to me adding more YouTube video demonstrations in my posts which keep a reader on the site longer.
My site has reached a visitor plateau for about four months now where my site traffic stays hovering around the 15-17k user mark and the 20-21k pageview mark. Despite my search engine traffic increasing slightly, my social networking and promotion of my site just doesn’t have much impact to my overall site traffic. If I were to literally stop using Twitter tomorrow, I would only see about 200 less visits per month to my site, which almost makes me question why I spend so much time on Twitter. For me it just isn’t an effective promotional tool for this blog, however it is much more beneficial to my Poetry blog where almost 5% of my traffic comes from Twitter visits.
As I realize where my search engine traffic comes from, most of my traffic comes related to my technology / software related reviews and instructional articles. It is ironic that 2 sponsored posts from SocialSpark account for the highest number of individual page views on single posts in my site. This is good because it means my sponsored posts are being found and reaching users which is what the advertiser wants.
How did my fellow bloggers fare in traffic stats for April 2010?
-Dragon Blogger
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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.







