Jim Haysom | This Is Your Life an internet professional in digital advertising

My blogging holiday is over and website traffic increases

82 days later from my last post, I'm back!  Hooray.  Lots to tell you all, and boy has it been interesting.

Some might have questioned the absence given that one of my last posts was about winning the national lottery twice in one night. 

Did I win the jackpot?  Well one should not share such personal information in a public domain.  However, I'd be willing to share the news that I didn't, but the winnings were well spent on a pizza.

The absence was more of a case of stop posting and see what happens.  For example, what is the site's loyalty, or level of traffic that can be achieved organically from search engines from pages that had been indexed?

I'd consistantly blogged almost every day for 2 and a half months.  Then took approximately 2 and a half months break.

The results.

January 1st to March 10th 2009

• 869 visits
• 632 unique visitors
• 1,643 page views
• 1.89 pages/visit
• 58.8% of visits from search engines (511)
• 24.05% of visits direct traffic (209)
• 17.5% of visits referring sites (149)

March 11th to May 31st 2009

• 835 visits
• 772 unique visitors
• 1,142 page views
• 1.37 pages/visit
• 84.19% of visits from search engines (703)
• 8.98% of visits referring sites (75)
• 6.83% of visits direct traffic (57)

Wow!