800 hits to my site in

[coollikeme]

5 months is this a good pace. I did not spend a penny in advertising, just lots of hard work. I would rather take my time and hopefully I get steady flow of people to my site. Just want to get an idea of how I am doing. Am I ok or am I behind, should I be getting more hits? Any advice will be helpful.

[michael.shearer]

This is a subjective reality forum , so it is really up to you as to what a reasonable pace or hit count would be. Some sites jump quick, read this post for example: How This Blog Attracted 100,000 Visitors in the First 30 Days | steve-olson.com.

Others take awhile, like mine

Good luck to you and the growth of your site.

Namaste.

[Wanderer]

The internet truly is an incredible resource, you have influenced up to 800 people with your website, thats truly incredible. It would be nearly impossible to have done this 100s of years ago or even 20 years ago.

Congratulations, keep it up Im sure you'll get to where you want to be eventually, 800 in 5 months sounds impressive to me

[Cassie]

Hi Coollikeme. If I may ask - what have you done to draw traffic to your site, up to this point?

[coollikeme]

help. up to 900 and also a couple of sales.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by coollikeme

Am I ok or am I behind, should I be getting more hits? Any advice will be helpful.

That's really hard to answer without knowing a little about your goals.

It's probably a question that you're much better qualified to answer than any of us. Are you happy with that amount? Would you like more? It looks like you're running a business, so I assume more is always good, right?

[scottyp]

I've had maybe around 3000 hits on my site in 6 months. Haven't made a lot from the ads yet but it shows potential if I can get more traffic.

For the amount of work it takes me to write an article, I am aiming for more hits though.

[flocay]

Well, this is interesting to see that without spending a penny you can do this. I am just starting and also trying not to spend too much. Still, if a site can do 100,000 hits in 30 days and you do 800 in 5 months, there's got to be a way to get to a balance that would make everybody happy...?

[scottyp]

well I suck at advertising my site and it is targeted toward a niche crowd.

However my video reviews on youtube which are affiliated with the site have had thousands of views in a short time (about 20,000 views total) (now that I am a director the site link shows up on the side too). I submitted a review video to dig and it showed up on their video page... I'm hoping to get some exposure from that stuff.

[coollikeme]

I do not think you need to spend a lot of money on advertising. Since I last wrote I am now at 1000 hits to my sight only a couple or sales, but I am in it for the long haul. Which means I can take my time and not necessarily spend a lot of money. I will spend money at some point if sales are slow for a long period of time. I know one person who spent 150 dollars for ads. He says he gets about 7 hits a day and he has less sales than me. The difference is he is down 150 and I spent nothing. There has got to be a middle ground some where. Hopefully you find yours.

[Jill]

Umm...not to put a damper on your enthusiasm, but "hits" is not a worthwhile measurement.

Hits does not equal unique site visitors. Hits measures each item on your site that gets downloaded to the visitor's browser.

So for instance, if you have a page that has 10 images on it, when someone visits that page, it will render as 11 hits. 1 for the html file, and 10 for the images.

You should be looking at the number of unque visitors if you want to really know how well your site is doing.

Hope this helps and doesn't discourage you!

[coollikeme]

my web site counter shows me the number of visits made by each unique IP address. It only registers them once, no matter how many times they visit my site. Sorry I should have explained it better. thanks for looking out.

[Simpleclicks]

I have 2 blogs aimed for different audience. I notice that one blog performs better than the other. People are interested to visit the blog because they believe they will get something useful for themselves.

[gberardi]

Originally Posted by Jill

Umm...not to put a damper on your enthusiasm, but "hits" is not a worthwhile measurement.

Hits does not equal unique site visitors. Hits measures each item on your site that gets downloaded to the visitor's browser.

So for instance, if you have a page that has 10 images on it, when someone visits that page, it will render as 11 hits. 1 for the html file, and 10 for the images.

Hah, I wish I knew about that last year. I thought I was getting 1,000 different people each day at one point, and I thought it was a huge milestone. Then I put up Google AdSense and used w3counter, and I found that it was more like 100 people. I didn't know why there was such a big difference between my web host's stats package and w3counter's stats until now. Thanks for that. B-)

[geekchic9]

100,000 unique visitors in a month? Wow, that's impressive. I was happy that I got over 50 unique visitors in 3 days, simply by writing a couple of posts here about my site and adding it to my signature. That's it.

There isn't much on my site yet, but I am going to add more content and links between today and tomorrow. In fact, I'm going to write an opinion article on it about why college isn't for you if you're not mature enough to handle the responsibility or know what you're going to study. I think that's obvious, but apparently other people don't. I wasted a lot of time in college and now I am literally paying for it--to the tune of over $50,000. Gah! It was an expensive thing to learn, but I've taken responsibility for it, and I'll pay my way out of it.

Edit: The link to the article/blog post is now in my sig.

[Cassie]

Oh dear. I didn't know that either. Are hits the same as a 'page view'?

I still have a lot to learn.

[Jill]

Originally Posted by Cassie

Oh dear. I didn't know that either. Are hits the same as a 'page view'?

I still have a lot to learn.

Nope. A page view is just each time the html file is viewed Hits include every single image on that page as well.

Page views are also not the greatest thing to measure. It shows you whether people are going into your site and viewing more than one page, but that's about it.

If you guys haven't already, I would suggest signing up for the free Google Analytics to measure your traffic. It's as good as most $3k programs and will measure the things that really matter, including conversions.

[Dating Specialist]

Google Analytics is really comprehensive. I'm using that for my stie too. Best of all, it comes free!

It tracks your marketing summary (to view where your traffic came from) too. Wonderful tool. Thanks Google!

[Joel Chue]

Google Analytics is really comprehensive. I'm using that for my stie too. Best of all, it comes free!

It tracks your marketing summary (to view where your traffic came from) too. Wonderful tool. Thanks Google!

Yes, Google Analytics is great. But a word of warning is that if your site is a black hat site, do try to avoid google analytics unless you want them to clamp you down.

I think there are other alternatives to analytics that don't cost $3k. Anything that cost $3k in the Internet marketing world will be flooded with new competitors very soon.

I'm glad that this hits, page views and unique visitors issue was sorted out. Pretty shocked when I saw the heading. Ha. Let's strive to more traffic

[bhopkins]

Originally Posted by Jill

Nope. A page view is just each time the html file is viewed Hits include every single image on that page as well.

Page views are also not the greatest thing to measure. It shows you whether people are going into your site and viewing more than one page, but that's about it.

If you guys haven't already, I would suggest signing up for the free Google Analytics to measure your traffic. It's as good as most $3k programs and will measure the things that really matter, including conversions.

I'm not sure I agree, Page views are just as important if not more important than unique visitors. While you always want your unique visitors to contine to rise you also want to look at the average amount of pages your visitors view. This gives you insight into how useful your visitors find your site. The more pages they view the more they like your content and the more like they will become repeat visitors and maybe even provide plugs for your site throughout the web which will bring in even more uniques.


Bruce

[Jill]

Page views are just as important if not more important than unique visitors.

No. Really, they're not.

At least not as an aggregate number. Just seeing that you had 1000 pageviews, for instance, is not helpful.

It IS helpful to look at your unique visitors and how many pages they visit, yes. And even more helpful to look at the path they took through your site to make sure it's the one you want/hope for them to take.

But aggregate pageviews? Blech...not worth much in and of itself.

[Ibanez]

Nah, I think pageviews are important. I pretty much echo what bhopkins said. Plus if a page is getting a lot more views than anything else you can probably optimize it for a program or something.

[Jill]

Plus if a page is getting a lot more views than anything else you can probably optimize it for a program or something.

Yes, I agree.

As I said, it's pageview as an aggregate number that is useless. In other words, seeing that your whole entire site gets 1000 pageviews per day, or whatever. That's not helpful. Which is generally how you receive them from most web analytics software.

Pageviews of an individual page are definitely good to know.