At the end of June, I saw a quick drop in traffic on the second to last day of the month. The last day of June ended with normal traffic day, but I was wondering how July would fair. That drop in traffic is still a question mark, but I was happy to see that it didn’t repeat itself at any point in July.
For the month, July was a good month in traffic. There was the usual small increases on a few days, but for the most part there wasn’t anything really interesting. The amount of traffic received each day was fairly consistent throughout the month, which is nice, but a few days had some good amount of traffic.
A Fairly Static Month
My goal for this month was to keep increasing the traffic to my blog, as it is every month. Each month that I achieve that goal, I am always wondering how much more traffic I can generate before I reach a plateau, or start to see a small decrease.
I have experienced traffic plateaus in the past, and they usually require me to step back and evaluate the traffic to my blog. This month, however, I managed to increase both the number of visitors and pageviews my blog received. Below is the graph of visits to Technically Easy for July 2011.
Traffic Stats - July 2011
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As you can see, the traffic levels for the month were fairly consistent. Around July 24th and July 25th, there was a minor surge in traffic before it leveled down again to more normal traffic levels.
The traffic for the month increased nicely from the previous year, as the table below illustrates.
| Metric | July 2010 | July 2011 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits | 50,859 | 88,666 | 74.34% |
| Pageviews | 66,070 | 120,010 | 84.67% |
Both the number of visits and pageviews increased over 70% over July the previous year. While month to month may not see a huge increase, the year over year values indicate otherwise. The past few months have shown this trend, which I am hoping to repeat each month.
Traffic Sources - July 2011
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on August 4, 2011 at 9:11 am
Hi Pual, this is brilliant traffic for a personal blog your doing amazing. In fact your even close to the type of traffic that blog engage is producing. The only thing that’s low compared to our stats is your page views but still you should be very happy with these results. I assume you get tons of Search Engine traffic? Hopefully our blog engage rss service and back linking is helping you rank higher in the search engines.
on August 4, 2011 at 11:13 am
Thanks Brian. The pageviews are usually around 1.4 for this blog. I’m guessing many people read the tutorial articles and find what they were searching for…at least that is what I am going to think. Most of my traffic comes from search engines, which is good, but unfortunately if a search engine changes their algorithm, it could potentially greatly affect my traffic.
on August 4, 2011 at 10:30 am
Another great month bro..I’m happy to see stats go up..it just shows the hard work.
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on August 4, 2011 at 11:15 am
Thanks. While it is great to see my traffic increase, I also realize that I have to work that much harder to reach the next milestone.
on August 4, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Congrats on the awesome traffic stats! You’re definitely giving some of us newer bloggers something to hope for in the future. Keep up the great work.
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on August 5, 2011 at 8:09 am
Thanks, AJ! I am always finding ways to increase my traffic each month.
on August 4, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Wow. It’s a very nice stats you have! Congrats!
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on August 5, 2011 at 8:10 am
Thanks, Andrew!
on August 5, 2011 at 2:12 am
What a great success Paul! Im happy for you. I hope this continues in the next coming months. Keep up the good work.
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on August 5, 2011 at 10:02 am
I have a question…
When you said: “I have experienced traffic plateaus in the past, and they usually require me to step back and evaluate the traffic to my blog.”
What exactly do you do? Add content? Links? What do you focus on the most?
Just curious…and thanks in advance…:)
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on August 5, 2011 at 1:33 pm
When I hit a traffic plateau, I would usually look back at what I changed to cause my traffic to stop increasing. In my case I had written less content. I began to set myself a schedule to write more content, and have increased the amount that I publish to 5 times a week.
In addition to the content, I also started to become more active in social networking, and also visiting more blogs. My traffic really started to increase with the addition of these two tasks. Also, as I became more active, I also received offers for guest posts on my blog, which has also helped with publishing 5 posts a week. Some of the guest posts have attracted search engine traffic as well, which was a great bonus.
Today I split my time between publishing content and being more social online. The links tend to come from both activities.
on August 5, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Great traffic keep up the great work!
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on August 6, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Thanks. I’m always trying to increase my traffic.
on August 5, 2011 at 5:04 pm
As i am reading to your post i never see any problem with it,i guess you dont need to change it maybe just add a little bit,again as i read it looks perfect i even some idea from here.thanks for sharing.enjoy week ends!!!
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on August 6, 2011 at 2:27 am
Awesome traffic stats Paul … Impressive change ! Hope TE crosses the 100K visitors mark in couple of months
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on August 6, 2011 at 3:51 pm
I’m hoping it crosses 100K visitor mark in the next couple of months myself.
on August 7, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Static is good, at least the numbers didn’t go under. I believe the problem right now is that people spend less time on the computer since we’re in July and the weather’s too nice to waste time on blogs like you usually do the rest of the year. I doubt that any blogger witnessed growth this month.
You’ll probably get back to normal in a month or two.
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on August 8, 2011 at 8:40 am
Vacation time is usually difficult for traffic, but it would be interesting to see if more traffic comes from mobile devices as people always seem to be using those.
on August 10, 2011 at 12:26 pm
looks very impressive! Wish you all the best for the upcoming time
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on December 11, 2011 at 9:09 am
looks very impressive!
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