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Is this stat. significant?

by parker3773
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Hello all. It's -10 degrees here in Ohio so a little SEO work will hopefully keep my mind off it.

A couple days in to my new blog I'm starting to see visitors trickle in. I'm embarassed to say it but I'm just now over my first 100 visitors but I noticed that 30% of thse visitors added my blog to their favorites. In my mind, that speaks to interest and I know that even if I like a site I don't often add it to my favorites because I don't want half the internet in my favorites list. 30% doesn't seem too hateful to me. Does that stat. matter?

The other interesting thing is out of everything I've done, it seems that twitter is bringing in the most.

Thanks

Tim
#significant #stat
  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    Originally Posted by parker3773 View Post

    30% of thse visitors added my blog to their favorites.
    That's only an estimate and it's based on the file favicon.ico being requested. Most browsers due that by default now a days.
    So the statistic is no longer meaningful.
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  • Profile picture of the author Krisism
    Yes as Kirk said - No longer significant. I checked out your blog, nice work just a couple things that stuck out to me:

    -You have a content-link on your subhead (seems a little inappropriate to me)
    -There is a bit of image overlapping on the "Elementary finance - why read?" button at the top.

    Great job, I love following new blogs, and it's interesting that most of your referrals have come from twitter. What other marketing methods do you do?

    Cheers,
    Kris
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    • Profile picture of the author parker3773
      Krisim

      I REALLY appreciate you taking a look at the site and offering comments. I take it as a compliment when somebody will look at something I do and rip it up and find all of the faults.

      I agree with you about the content link. I'm looking for the way to keep that from happening.

      My plan today is to change the image overlap and work a little harder on my keywords. I don't think I have that right just yet. I can see why people are making some major money being an expert in keywords.

      Currently, I'm submitting to RSS, writing for ezine, did a press release, putting all my posts on DIGG, slowly finding blog sites to post to, I have e-mailed the top 50 financial blogs I could find for link exchange (not one response from them which I find odd) twitter, squidoo. Google adwords, Google Alerts, and I'm looking to get in to one of the pay keywords packages. I'm hoping by staying consistent with all of this, over time I'll have a traffic base that I can be proud of. I like to write so some of this work is just plain fun!

      Can you think of anything else I should do?

      The two most important things I'm doing:

      1.) Working on my content to make it more compelling, fresh, and authoritative but not complicated so it fits the vision of the blog.
      2.) Reading EVERY post I can on this forum and articles that I'm finding from all of you. (Thank you everybody)

      Tim
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