How Many Visitors Does Your Website Get?

[Smitten]

My signature slice of life blog is getting around 5,000 daily visitors these days, and I still think it's a far cry from success. In fact, sometimes I look back and feel it's been more like a failure, and I wonder whether I'm doing something worthwhile or not >_< but that's because I've been working full-time as a content writer since 2007, at which time I also started this website.

On the flip side... one of the things I do like about this website is that it gives me perspective on my progress as a content writer. Sometimes I'll go back and read my articles from a few years ago and find myself thinking how naive I was back then! How much I have learned in this period! And of course... how much I still have to learn.

So for any of you who wish you had more traffic, my advice is: don't give up! Keep learning new things and using them, and keep writing. Even if not many people read it, you'll still be able to look back at your archives in a few years and think it was worth the effort, and it made you a better writer!

[MissyMiss]

My site (the one in my signature) gets 100-200 views per days, and it's 3 or 4 weeks old. I have a long way to go. I don't really promote it much - I include it in forum links, and post my blogs on Facebook occasionally.

[reidchj]

My site is 5 days old today and now getting about 20 visitors a day. I haven't figured out this marketing thing yet. Right now just focusing on content.

Although I hope to get to 100 a day by the end of September.

[Eryn]

Thanks for the info. Its nice to see how well everyone is doing and how long they have been working. I have two blog sites that I have just started up and this is a great way for me to set realist goals and timelines.

[janicelou]

Month One - 70 daily
Month Two - 230 daily
Month Three - 450 daily

50% from search, 25% from social sites, 15% from referral sites, 10% from direct links.

[Trevor Johnson]

Very interesting thread. I'm churning out one story a day for my humour/satire site but the figures are all kind of 20-30 (jump up to 200 when I plug my story in comments boxes on The Guardian but obv that's irrelevant). I thought it might be because I don't aim for any keywords, it's a mish mash of stuff, but a lot of people on here seem to have general sites, too. Any ideas/criticisms very welcome!
Cheers,
Trevor
The Daily News

[SnerpGoodWord]

My trading blog (see sig) is about 1 month old, and it's getting about 20 real visitors a day. I haven't made any big efforts to publicize it yet.

[rigaconnect]

Website is about 2 weeks old. Website has 4 pages with articles.
And no visitors at all Seems need to write more content. I am trying to add one page per week. Do not know how long will able to force myself to add content one time per week...

[javed]

Around 150,000,000 per day.

That is for Google.

My site get a little less. Around 50-100 per day.

[Aminka Ozmun]

Interesting to see everyone's numbers; thanks for sharing!

Not sure if I should start a new thread or what, but I'm also curious how you folks with sites just a few weeks or even a few days old got anyone to visit, let alone the tens and even hundreds claimed!

[Curtis2011]

Originally Posted by Aminka Ozmun

Interesting to see everyone's numbers; thanks for sharing!

Not sure if I should start a new thread or what, but I'm also curious how you folks with sites just a few weeks or even a few days old got anyone to visit, let alone the tens and even hundreds claimed!

Sometimes you can make a page or blog post with keywords that just happen to have a lot of searches for them, but very little competition in Google.

If you have optimized your site decently, the page can rank up to the first page of Google results very quickly, at which point your traffic shoots up accordingly.

Also, on a somewhat related note, Google tends to include a few samples of "fresh" content about a topic, if that topic is something time-dependent.

So if you make a blog post about something very timely, especially something that people would search for with the date included in their search, like "republican presidential debate december 10", or something like that, then Google will bump up your blog post to much higher than it normally would have ranked for that term.

Since it is "fresh" content and people who are searching for it would probably want to find very recently published content rather than an article about presidential debates that was published 10 years ago (even if that older article has 10,000 backlinks to it and the new blog post has 0 backlinks), your new blog post can sometimes outrank the older content and get a massive wave of traffic from appearing on or close to the first page of Google.

This is one strategy that I don't think many SBI'ers take advantage of (including me), but has been mentioned in the SBI forums before by someone who does take advantage of it. The author had a website about babies or something to do with childcare, and anytime she saw a news story about a missing child or a new medicine for babies or something similar, she would immediately write a content page about the news story and publish in in the blog-like function in her SBI site.

She said this was a very good method of capturing traffic from timely news stories and sometimes her page would appear on the first page of Google if you searched for the news story, simply because she was one of the first blog/website owners to write about it.

[stanmrak]

Originally Posted by Smitten

My signature slice of life blog is getting around 5,000 daily visitors these days, and I still think it's a far cry from success.

What would it take for you to feel successful? Almost any webmaster would kill for 5,000 visitors a day. Maybe you're not making any money? Your site doesn't seem like one that could be monetized very effectively. Traffic is one thing, monetizing quite another.

My site is almost 3 years old and gets 1200 visitors/day, up from 300/day a year ago; almost entirely from Google searches.

[Smitten]

Hi,

Sure enough, despite its non-commercial focus and random traffic sources, slices of life does make for a decent stream of revenue already (although as you pointed out, 5k daily visitors of focused traffic would be worth substantially more).

In all case, I'll only declare this project a success when it's generating about enough money to allow me to live anywhere in the world I choose to. In fact, this is my personal standard to measure the success of any website/webmaster!

[Soccerwidow]

Originally Posted by Aminka Ozmun

Interesting to see everyone's numbers; thanks for sharing!

Not sure if I should start a new thread or what, but I'm also curious how you folks with sites just a few weeks or even a few days old got anyone to visit, let alone the tens and even hundreds claimed!

What I have noticed is that it seems to be enough to publish one good post per week; the emphasis on "good"! Google rewards quality and unique content immediately and displays new articles under the first 10 searches. However, I have also noticed that Google somehow monitors the bounce rate, and if visitors don't visit any other pages after this first click any new listed article disappears further and further down in Google.

How they do it, I have no idea but some of my articles get real good traffic from the search engines and other articles none; and I somehow agree with Google - it's the stronger of my articles they keep in front.

My blog has been now online for 11 months and I have approx. 150/160 unique visitors per day and approaching 10,000 page views per months, but I'm publishing relatively infrequent. Would be probably better if I would write more.

[Soccerwidow]

Originally Posted by Smitten

So for any of you who wish you had more traffic, my advice is: don't give up! Keep learning new things and using them, and keep writing. Even if not many people read it, you'll still be able to look back at your archives in a few years and think it was worth the effort, and it made you a better writer!

Originally Posted by Smitten

In all case, I'll only declare this project a success when it's generating about enough money to allow me to live anywhere in the world I choose to. In fact, this is my personal standard to measure the success of any website/webmaster!

I couldn't agree more... unfortunately, it seems to take ages to achieve!

Since I started, I keep learning and learning and learning - this is certainly the enjoyable part of it! However, the goal to declare the project as a success seems to be far, far away. Although I started to generate some money but if I divide the income by the hours I am spending to make it I could cry...

[Million Dollar Man]

I have a few blogs and websites. Overall I get about 20,000 hits per month
but it keeps growing.
Of course I want it to be sky the limit. I want to reach millions of views soon.
But always shoot for the moon and land among the stars!