This made me curious, so I've been paying attention lately. My traffic
reports from Sitemeter (which do not, thankfully, count bots) tell me
that in the week ending January 30th, my poem site (Oratory) averaged
29 hits/day and 58 "page views" -- the TypePad stats show me where
these come from, usually. This site isn't a blog, so even though it is
on blog software and has feeds, I doubt anyone subscribes.
Nearly all the searches found what they were looking for (not to say
they liked it) -- a recent one was "I want a mango poem" -- well, here
ya go, sweetie -- and the rest were similar.
What I always delight to see is a search for, say, "poem about
oranges", that then leads to an hour or more of perusing nearly every
poem on the site. I love that. I wonder who they are?
So I say, *do* be encouraged by hits. They aren't always readers, to
be sure -- but they bring readers, sooner or later.
--
Sharon Brogan
http://www.sbpoet.com
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:15:44 +0000, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I get circa 300-400 page hits a day. The great majority of these are
> either search engine bots, attempts to post comment spam to my blog,
> or refresh requests from the RSS feed aggregators of the two or three
> people who actually subscribe to my blog feed. I reckon between one
> and ten pairs of human eyeballs sweep across my site each day, and out
> of those maybe three or four found something they actually wanted to
> find (based on referrer URLs from search engines, by means of which it
> is possible to discover what a visitor to your site was actually
> looking for).
>
> Dominic
>
> --
> // Alas, this comparison function can't be total:
> // bottom is beyond comparison. - Oleg Kiselyov
>
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