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Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

megacheapphones.com — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:50:58 -0000

There is a definitely a place on the web for Paris Hilton blogs (or is that Britney blogs these days?).. but perhaps no place for one more..

Cheers!

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Jerry — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:43:38 -0000

Well said Andy, absolutely right.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Timon — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:15:44 -0000

Totally agree with you andy..quality not quantity...but quantity and quality is good...
As long as its always there and doesnt need to be fed all the time by your time..

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Andy Lee Graham — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:15:51 -0000

I get the feeling that the web is becoming a big used car sales lot. The want to clean up the car, wash down the motor and sell a lemon.

This business model of spinning the social networks is a temporary climax, with too much foreplay needed. Then the girl leaves as soon as you stop putting the money on the table.

I would rather be on a on-theme site and there continuously for years than one time in digg or stumbled or all theme genetically impaired, mass breeding rabbit sites.

Good business is a day to day traffic, not spikes, especially when the spike is totally manipulated.
Andy of HoboTraveler.com

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Rem — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:19:38 -0000

Traffic can be hype but you can have millions of visitors to your blog if you come up with something shocking that's first hand that everyone online is looking to find. But even that will be temporary.
There are ways to get more traffic but quantity vs quality is the issue.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

thebusinessofsoftware.net — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:56:15 -0000

The buzz index!

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Michael Lankton — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:26:13 -0000

My site is 10 weeks old, and 100 unique visitors is a good day for me. I think I have done the things I need to do to move things forward, I just have to keep delivering content and wait. It's disheartening but I guess everyone goes through this.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Jake — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:12:38 -0000

@shanti

I agree - great way of saying it.

Robert - love the debate. Thanks for posting.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Shanti Braford — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:04:27 -0000

Digg - 20,000

StumbleUpon - 10,000 - 25,000

Reddit - 5,000

del.icio.us/popular - 3,000

Spillover traffic from bloggers who've found my sites through these sources: Priceless

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

luca — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:53:32 -0000

Slashdot, definitely.

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Scott — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:38:21 -0000

Great info, although it was a little bit confusing at first. I was lost as to what you were talking about at the start haha. Thanks for the help!

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

moralsandethics — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:18:45 -0000

Quality over quantity!!

Yes I beleive in the same becuase just getting the traffic in not important but they should take the benifts from the same

MoralsandEthics
http://moralsandethics.word...

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Daniel Brusilovsky — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:40:28 -0000

I had a lot of traffic when you interviewed me, but after that, it slowly went down!

Daniel

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

krsnaKhandelwal — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:33:40 -0000

I am trying to get traffic to my blog through word of mouth and I am finding that it is working to an extent. However , I am having to work very hard to feed it and make useful and relevent as it is related to Indian stock market. Since I am not a technical person I find it hard to use the tools recommended.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

vaspers the grate aka steven e — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:53:32 -0000

Joe with No Website or Blog: what do you know about anything?

Scoble just said it's not about "influencing" the masses, but influencing smart people who actually change the world, not lemmings who follow any charismatic warmonger or leader.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

vaspers the grate aka steven e — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:51:55 -0000

Love this post, Robert. People who care about blog traffic are idiots pandering to 13 year old Harry Potter worshipers.

Digg? Just a bunch of Nazis over there, and lemmings.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Joe — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:41:56 -0000

I think Bobby is spot on. The problem with internet communities in general is the lack of perspective of size. The world is big and the fact all the posts here are talking about a few thousand hits just demonstrates the point. These figures represent a very very small percentage of the English speaking IT industry... which in itself is very small percentage of the average person on the street.

All these great community sites haven't come close to cracking the egg with the average consumer.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

k1v1n — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:14:45 -0000

The most traffic I've ever gotten is when you linked me from your Fast Company blog. TY, btw!

2nd StumbleUpon.

3rd TechMeme.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Tanasije Gjorgoski — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:55:01 -0000

What about ctrl+click (right click/open in new tab) clicks? Are referrers tracked for this kind of clicking?
I use lot of this, and for aggregators like techmeme I tend to just open new tabs for the links.

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2.0weblogs.net/work — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:17:51 -0000

Awesome article. iGot a ton once when i mentioned Lindsay Lohan and MTV linked to the Thunk Different blog. Nothing like a good Digg tho. Peace.

-Americo

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Endy — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:15:59 -0000

Valleywag publishes a live link to their stats on their front door. Do you? Apologies if I missed it.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

malatmals — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:51:04 -0000

how many hits have you now received from google searches for paris hilton?

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

patricia — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:31:48 -0000

@ Chris Coulter - I believe that happens moreso because of the overall lack of understanding of what is traffic, what makes for good traffic, etc., within the broad market (advertisers, bloggers, media, etc.). Everyone expects every site to have huge numbers but that's never been consistent with media business, or television, for that matter. Niches are just going to be smaller and that's that.

The top vertical publications in print media, for example, has about 50-80k circulation and that's considered high for a vertical. I think the web is going to prove basically the same, but the industry overall is still a little closed minded and inexperienced to understand it yet. People haven't really even really discovered that Alexa has flaws as an analytics tool, or that traffic can be and is bought/engineered. I think it'll be a long while before anyone fully understands what traffic should look like in niches, like techmeme.

So, you hear a lot of that garbage but don't blame the messenger.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

letters — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:42:34 -0000

Maybe there aren't many people there... but those who count might be linking to your blog. I've never been on digg or stumbled upon much, but one link to pharyngula and wham! hit count hit the roof. It was fun.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

CVOS man — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:37:08 -0000

Its not the traffic, but what you do with the traffic. With this blog your conversion goals might be to increase RSS subscriptions and get people to click on your advertisements to your book and show.

Robert, how many books does this blog sell?