Higher Visits = Higher Popularity!!!! Not Always Dude….
Google Analytics, one of the most trusted applications on the web when it comes to tracking of data of a blog or website, measures the following metrics for a blog for a particular day-
- Visits
- Page Views
- Pages/ Visit
- Bounce Rate
- Average time on site
- % of new visits.
There are many other aspects too but these are the most relevant things. Webmasters use this data to show the increasing popularity of their blog. The two most important metrics of these are visits and page views. But today, I want to take your attention to something which is completely new for me and I noticed it for the first time few days ago.
Since the day I have installed Analytics in my blog, the bounce rate has rarely gone beyond than 20%. I was amazed to see how it is possible when there are so many better and popular blogs and still their bounce rate is above 50%. I checked traffic reports of many popular bloggers and this is the report.
Below is the screenshot of my traffic report from the day 1 i.e. Jan 1, 2010 – Apr 24, 2010.
Look closely at the following three figures
- Pages/ visit- More than 4
- Bounce rate- Less than 6%
- Average time on site- More than 4 minutes.
Also, I have been consistently scoring at an average of 8 comments/post. If you compare these metrics against those of some popular bloggers, I repeat its SOME, not ALL; I have outscored them!!!
What I concluded after all this is that-
- May be I am not getting huge visits everyday but those who are coming here, they like my content and do not immediately leave my blog. They read content, spend time and comment.
- New visits do not mean that you are popular. What is more important that all who reach your blog anyhow are liking your content and taking out time to have a look. That means you are getting popularity and once you start getting regular visitors, nobody can stop you from becoming a successful blogger.
So, it’s my advice to new bloggers that do not get discouraged easily. TRY TO LOOK AT THINGS IN A DIFFERENT WAY AND YOU WILL FIND A REASON TO GET ENCOURAGED.
Looking forward to comments on how you liked this different approach.
Article Written By Tushar
Tushar is a 23 year old blogger from Dehradun, India giving blogging tips in his blog BloggersPassion which has become a widely read blog in this niche in small period of time. To know more about him, visit the About Me pageTushar has written 97 superb article(s) on this blog
April 25, 2010
7:01 pm
Looks pretty good. But you dont have high traffic. And you visitors are bloggers who read your blog. Try increasing you visitors from SE.
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April 25, 2010
9:11 pm
i am trying to increase my SE traffic rahul
April 25, 2010
9:31 pm
If you need any suggestions… regarding SE traffic…you can drop me a mail.
I am really good selecting titles and post.
April 26, 2010
6:03 pm
thanks for the help dude….i will surely
April 26, 2010
11:13 am
That really fine. you stopd people on your website.These will surely help in long term.
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April 26, 2010
6:04 pm
thanks
April 26, 2010
11:04 pm
Hey Tushar !
You’re Bounce rate is really awesome bro
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April 27, 2010
7:16 pm
I personally HATE metrics because they can be misleading! However, I sometimes use them because they get me new advertisers! Kind of a “necessary evil”, you see!
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April 28, 2010
5:24 pm
and google analytics is a trusted metric
May 5, 2010
11:34 pm
Good post and very true, having munch visitors didn’t mean they like your blog, the most important thing to llok on Google Analytics is the bounce rate, lower is the better! <3
May 6, 2010
6:13 pm
i too think the same
May 10, 2010
11:18 pm
Good research. I always likes to read something like this.
Frankly, I’m observing on my Blog stats everyday. As you said, Quantity of Visitors cannot calculate a blog’s reputation and leads.
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May 11, 2010
7:13 pm
the major thing is the bounce rate and page per views…i believe in these 2
May 11, 2010
4:40 am
I know this thing ever since but surprisingly a lot of bloggers don’t. I think its nice that you discuss it here in your blog to have bloggers become more aware that quantity isnt always the case.
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May 11, 2010
7:22 pm
i always wanted to write unconventionally…this post has helped me in proving that
May 11, 2010
4:52 pm
Well your traffic needs to be increased a lot. Concentrate on post titles and descriptions. I’ve seen a 1000 percent increase in my SE traffic due to appropriate post titles and descriptions.
May 11, 2010
7:23 pm
thanks for the tip dude
May 15, 2010
3:34 pm
That’s fine mate!
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May 12, 2010
7:34 am
Your Bounce rate is cool, keep it up buddy.
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May 12, 2010
6:20 pm
thanks anish
May 13, 2010
6:16 pm
yep man, i totally agree with you, thanks for this post, its reasured me that my blog isn’t that bad cuz i don’t get 10000′s of unique visitors.
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May 13, 2010
6:33 pm
high visit is not the best metric for a blog, peter
May 25, 2010
5:16 pm
Definitely high visit is not the best metric but i consider a good communication system between admin and his readers is must.
I believe in number of comments.
What do u say tushar
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May 25, 2010
7:04 pm
comments are a good way of judging the blog’s popularity but maximum of the comments are from the same people who visit your blog regularly….but you get good pageviews from new visits
May 14, 2010
2:59 am
Well your traffic needs to be increased a lot. Concentrate on post titles and descriptions. I’ve seen a 1000 percent increase in my SE traffic due to appropriate post titles and descriptions.
+1
May 25, 2010
7:24 am
I agree, bounce rate is a highly overlooked stat when comparing blog stats. What’s the point of having 100,000 visits when 99% of them bounce within a few seconds.
I would trade a small visit stat but a higher engagement through comments and longer page view time.
Thanks for sharing.
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May 25, 2010
7:10 pm
well said….i always have taken bounce rate a good area to concentrate on and my efforts are reaping fruits
June 12, 2010
11:00 pm
Tushar , your blog is very cool.
One thing that comes in my mind every time why you have such a small sized texts in your blog posts?
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June 13, 2010
11:47 am
thanks for the appreciation…and for the text part, i am working on a new theme avi…
so that will solve the problem of text size
June 28, 2010
3:23 pm
very impressive…your blog posts are short and straight to the point..could that also be helping keep your stats good?
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June 28, 2010
5:58 pm
i think you guys know this better….