Web Traffic Increase

I’ve been working on increasing traffic on my website for the last couple of months. The following are some stats pulled over a short period of time (not even a month) for comparison. I did nothing other than improvements to the website and some SEO related work (which hasn’t merited more than 5%) to do this. I’m posting this to show that content really is king, and if you build it, they really will come.

381,596 Visits

Previous: 171,572 (+122.41%)

3.92 Pages/Visit

Previous: 2.26 (+73.47%)

41.08% Bounce Rate

Previous: 53.64% (-23.42%)

1,497,137 Pageviews

Previous: 388,046 (+285.81%)

00:07:47 Avg. Time on Site

Previous: 00:04:23 (+77.57%)

58.54% % New Visits

Previous: 67.81% (-13.67%)

As far as the new visits goes, if you look over the rest of the statistics you can see that it’s not that there was a drop in the number of new visitors (quite the contrary), but rather there was a significant increase in the number of people coming back to the site multiple times.

19.41% Direct Traffic

Previous: 13.70% (+41.71%)

55.39% Referring Sites

Previous: 41.32% (+34.04%)

25.18% Search Engines

Previous: 44.96% (-44.00%)

As with new visits, the number of referrals from search engines did NOT drop (it increased by about 10%) but the significantly higher traffic from referrals from other websites and direct hits shows the search traffic as being a smaller portion of the traffic (a good thing in my opinion since you can’t rely on it).

If you have any questions about how I did this feel free to contact me. I really hope that this can persuade at least a few people that spamvertising and blackhat SEO techniques are NOT the way to go! This was ALL FREE TRAFFIC!