I achieved my goal of 100,000 visitors last month, and have set a new target of 200,000. I feel that I can achieve this goal by the end of next year, but it will require some good increases in traffic each month.
In order to reach the new monthly visitor target, Technically Easy will need to continue to increase traffic each month. November was the first month in the goal to reach the 200,000 monthly visitor mark.
Setting Sights on the New Target
I was pleased with the monthly visitor numbers of November. It was a good month for traffic at Technically Easy and makes me feel confident of achieving the 200,000 monthly visitor target by the end of the year.
Traffic Stats - November 2011
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Last month saw the highest increase in the number of visits between two months since I have been posting my traffic stats. The number of visits more than doubled from a year ago.
The table below shows both the monthly visits and pageviews for November:
| Metric | November 2010 | November 2011 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits | 55,729 | 117,245 | 110.38% |
| Pageviews | 77,087 | 150,065 | 94.67% |
While the number of visits more than doubled, the pageviews, while still had a good increase, didn’t increase as much. This means that the visitors view less pages per visit than the previous year. I am not concerned by this number, yet, as it was still a good increase, and a few factors could come into play.
One factor could be that I have more links outgoing to Amazon, and with the holiday season, there were people leaving Technically Easy and going to Amazon.
Technically Easy has never had a high pages per visit number, so I am not too concerned with the lower increase in pageviews compared to visits.
Traffic Sources for November 2011
Last month my search engine traffic topped 100,000 visitors for the very first time. While this represented an increase of about 16,000 visits over the previous month, both referring and direct traffic decreased last month from October.
The chart below shows the breakdown for the three sources of traffic.
Traffic Sources - November 2011
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The decrease in both the direct and referring traffic sources was a result of me not be as active online. I had dropped my interaction online substantially last month, and the results above illustrate that.
The increase in search engine traffic managed to make up for the decrease in the other two sources, but I’ll have to look at increasing all three this month in order to continue my traffic increase.
Overall, I think November was a good traffic month. There was a nice increase in the overall number of visitors to Technically Easy, but I feel I can do even better in December as I continue to work towards 200,000 monthly visitors.
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on December 2, 2011 at 8:48 am
Hi Paul
As always great to watch how you have been doing traffic wise. My own November has been the best in my blogs one year lifetime. I had more than 4000 visitors for the first time. I know that there is a long way to your 100.000, but my blog is still very young, so I am happy. My Search Engine traffic is about 67% and my referral is about 17%.I am pretty happy about that too. Looking forward to see how December will turn out.
Have a nice weekend Paul.
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on December 2, 2011 at 9:53 am
Congratulations on reaching 4,000 visitors. You seem to have good search engine traffic, as well as referral traffic. Having a good spread of traffic across search engines, referral and direct is something that I struggle with month-to-month.
on December 2, 2011 at 8:55 am
Awesome stats, Paul. Quite surprised to find a tech blog that has more search engine visitors percentage than my blog though. Like you, I would really want to have more referral traffics to balance out somehow.
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on December 2, 2011 at 9:54 am
This was an interesting month in terms of search engine percentage. I don’t usually reach 90%, and I am trying to actually reduce this percentage as we know what can happen from time-to-time when Google changes their algorithm.
on December 2, 2011 at 10:41 am
Hi Paul, Congrats on reaching your goals! It’s amazing how much traffic one can get when they provide quality content and give readers what they need. When that happens, Panda looks the other way
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on December 2, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Thanks, Ileane. I was glad to see that the Panda update had little effect on my traffic.
on December 2, 2011 at 12:13 pm
First off – kudos on 100k and happy vibes for the 200k goal!
Second, do you have any other thoughts regarding pageviews? I’m wondering specifically about the differences of pageviews among personal bloggers/B2C/B2B sites. Just a random thought of mine… of course one of the issues my site has is we utilize unbounce for our landing pages (which use a subdomain) so it took me 3 weeks to realize my analytics code wasn’t picking up the sub domain traffic *headdesk*
And just randomly – what’s the breakdown on your repeat visitors? Especially with the amazon links I would be curious to see who is leaving and coming back, or who is leaving and never returns.
Good gravy I am being a nosey! parker lol
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on December 3, 2011 at 3:00 am
Your traffic is increasing drastically that’s great news for you and plus it also motivates a lot. Such data always encourage you to create your own blog and earn money as well.
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on December 3, 2011 at 8:26 pm
I was surprised by how much my traffic increased last month, and I am hoping for a good December as well.
on December 3, 2011 at 2:08 pm
100,000 visitors per month is very impressive. Wishing you all the very best for 200,000. BTW, the yearly graph shows more than 100% increase. So, going by the same trend you should be able to achieve your target! All the best.
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on December 3, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Thanks. Keep up the pace is the hardest part, but while I may have some down months, I’m still hoping to reach my target by the end of next year.
on December 3, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Hi Paul
Did you know your theme is broken when a commenter includes their twitter ID? It pushes down the date to the next line. Unless you hit Enter at the start of your comment, or write a very short first line (as I did here), the first line is partially obscured by the date. It seems to do the same thing in both Firefox and Chrome. Thought you should know about that.
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on December 3, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Hi Ben. I noticed that a while ago, but hadn’t had time to fix the theme yet. I created the theme and then added the Twitter option through CommentLuv, but hadn’t modified the theme to properly display the Twitter account. It has been on my to-do list.
on December 4, 2011 at 8:18 am
i to want to achieve that goal in 2012.
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on December 5, 2011 at 8:10 am
I hope you achieve your goal.
on December 4, 2011 at 6:00 pm
very good amount of traffic , I hope you achieve your target , go on your way and you can to do it , best wishes to you
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on December 5, 2011 at 8:12 am
Thanks, Mahmoud!
on December 4, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Congrats in advance!! I hope you will achieve your target soon…
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on December 5, 2011 at 8:13 am
Thanks, Chessa! I’m hoping to achieve my target soon, as well.
on December 4, 2011 at 11:36 pm
It’s Great to know that you have doubled your traffic. Definitely, your blogs are worth sharing and reading. This is Great to end the year and Target for next year is another Challenge. Good Luck and God Bless!
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on December 5, 2011 at 8:14 am
I’m hoping to more than double my traffic next year as well – now if I could just increase my referral and direct traffic.
on December 4, 2011 at 11:59 pm
Congrats on reaching 100,000 , it’s a nice feeling when you reach certain landmarks.
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on December 5, 2011 at 8:15 am
Thanks, Nishadha! It is a great feeling when you achieve a goal.
on December 5, 2011 at 9:48 am
Congrats for your success, Paul. Those are very impressive traffic, I wish my blog could reach the milestone of 100,000 visits soon.
Actually it reached 100,000 visits in September but all my efforts were destroyed by the Panda update. Hopefully you will reach your new milestone soon.
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on December 5, 2011 at 11:38 am
Thanks, Tuan! The Panda updates seem to have affected many sites, and I’m lucky in that my traffic wasn’t affected. I’m sure you will reach 100,000 again soon, and I’m hoping to reach my new milestone soon as well.
on December 6, 2011 at 3:15 am
Congrats dude for this achievement . Unfortunately, my site has badly affected by panda update and my traffic dropped to nearly 40 percent now..
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on December 6, 2011 at 8:49 am
Thanks. Sorry to hear about your traffic drop. I’m sure your traffic will increase fairly quickly.
on December 6, 2011 at 7:00 am
Great to see that you have doubled your traffic. Good going keep it up
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on December 6, 2011 at 8:49 am
Thanks. I was surprise to have such an increase in traffic.
on December 11, 2011 at 1:03 am
Hearty congrats for achieving your goal of 100K visitors !!
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on December 12, 2011 at 8:31 am
Thanks, Salman.
on December 11, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Congratulations for what you have achieved and thanks as well for letting us know about it…
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on December 11, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Awesome search engines traffic
Like you, I don’t spend much online (for networking and doing other marketing stuffs).. as a result I get mostly search engine visitors just like you. Most of them came to a post looking for a specific info, they got it, and they left 
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on December 12, 2011 at 8:34 am
Unfortunately, the downside to someone finding information and leaving is the high bounce rate. So far I haven’t noticed anything bad with a high bounce rate, but I would like to get it lower.
on December 12, 2011 at 5:32 am
Wow, it’s really a agreat achievement and it all goes to your hard work and dedication. Search Engine traffic is very importatnt and 90% SE traffic is commendable.
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on December 18, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Congratulations!!I hope You can still get more…
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on December 25, 2011 at 8:08 pm
This is an inspiration to the whole bloggers…
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