It is over half a year since I published my first post on Kacper Wrzesniewski dot com. Looks like a good moment for some kind of summary, so I decided to prepare short breakdown and list my top 5 traffic sources since the beginning.
Entrecard – 30 %
Entrecard is my best source of traffic since the beginning. Definitely my Entrecard Contest helped a lot and I’m planning to run one more in near future. The disadvantage of Entrecard traffic is that it has high bounce ratio, due to people who mainly drop and run. The good point is that slowly Entrecard traffic gives place to my other sources which are increasing shares.
Stumble Upon – 13,6 %
Second traffic source is Stumble Upon. I think it is better traffic than most coming from Entrecard, however it is still with high bounce rate and short time visits. Usually, I got some traffic spikes after my best posts and few days later I get some more traffic from it. Later the traffic diminishes.
Wykop – 6,7 %
Wykop is kind of Polish Digg. I used it often in the past; nowadays I don’t submit articles there. Strong and short spikes of traffic, but I find it difficult to convert Wykop users into loyal readers.
BlogCatalog – 2,9 %
I don’t dedicate to much time to BlogCatalog and despite of this, it constantly sends me some significant traffic. Sometimes I only add some friends, drop some comments and review blogs. I rarely take an active part in some groups. But of course it is very nice, that without too much work I can get some traffic.
Google Organic Search – 2,5%
It is possible, it surprised you that Google is only on the fifth place with such a poor result. It is concerning me as well. Does Google hate me or what? Something wrong concerning SEO? I honestly don’t know, but for the long period I almost get no organic traffic from Google. Now I’m less worried because it started to significantly increasing and soon I think Google would be my first or second source of traffic.
That’s my short review of my top traffic sources. I would be really happy if you drop below your best traffic sources, with or without short comment on them.
August 30th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I found your site because of the problogger contest,,,I added you to a list of my favorites from the contest on my blog.
Her is a link to the post I entered… http://www.drizzlyblog.com/2008/08/tigger-woods_28.html
I like your post!
August 31st, 2008 at 11:58 am
submission accepted, pls stumble and digg it.. thanks..
August 31st, 2008 at 11:59 am
Drizzly, thanks for comment.
Problogger contest was great. All the weekend I’m reading great posts submitted there.
September 1st, 2008 at 3:30 am
I’m not sure that I get Entrecard. How does it generate traffic.
Cheers.
Saw you in Problogger killer titles. you can check out mine if you wish.
How To Be A Prostitute Farmer?
http://www.robschaumer.com/blog/2008/02/20/how-to-be-a-prostitute-farmer/
September 1st, 2008 at 10:21 am
You have to register to Entrecard, add your blog and put entrecard widget on your site. Then other Entrecard users would be able to drop cards on your blog (you earn point for each dropped card).
For earned points you can buy ads on widgets placed on others blogs. Very often, when you drop cards on different blogs, their owners reciprocate it, so they visit your blog.
There are also few other ways to get traffic from it. Read their forum or some posts related to Entrecard.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Kacper, yes I’m also surprised at how low your Google percentage is. My blog’s only been going for a month, and I’ve been getting about 50% of my traffic from organic Google - I was actually quite surprised how quickly it took off. Still, different strokes for different folks, perhaps? I’m curious: where are you getting the remaining 40-odd percent of traffic from?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 am
High amount of traffic is direct, which I didn’t put into this overview.
There are some serious entries from Digg, Twitter, Technorati, MyBlogLog, SiteHoppin, PFBuzz.com and many others…
September 4th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Hi Kasper,
Just curious, of how much of your efforts are spent on International market, and how much are on Polish market? What is the ratio of returns?
My question came from the fact that I am trying to leverage my English and my Russian blogs efforts spent. Russian traffic is easier to get, but click-thrue ration and click costs are so low, that that creates a question mark of the promotion balance between the two markets.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Nesher,
Most efforts I put on International market. Polish traffic I mostly had from wykop.pl and like I stated in my post, I currently don’t use it (I don’t submit my posts there).
Comparing with digg.com, it is more difficult for me to get the traffic from it (unless I submit a brilliant post), but it looks that digg traffic is better.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Thank you for your article submission to the 2nd addition of the Free the Internet Blog Carnival. Edition was published today and can be accessed through the link:
http://webfreebies4u.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-internet-september-5-2008-2nd-ed.html
Appreciate your valuable addition!
Have a good weekend!
November 14th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
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