The Retrospector

Problogger Darren Rowse posted today to give thanks to other blogs that send him traffic. I thought I’d comment a little bit about where my traffic was coming from and give a little credit where it’s due as well.

Starting out Traffic

It’s been kind of a neat experience to slowly watch my baseline traffic grow over time. (On weekends, I’m still getting 50+ hits a day) I get the weekly spike of traffic from the social bookmarking sites that are very deceiving on what my “real” traffic is, but I can tell by the logs that my base traffic is growing.

To give credit to the social sites, it does bring a lot of eyes to my content and opinions on what I have to say. I’ve seen both ends of the spectrum from those that love it and those that hate it. I don’t know how “sticky” social site visitors are over time, but 99% of them seem to go to just the single post page and leave right away. My main goal in using the social sites was to get general opinions of my content and style anyway. I have built up a small subscriber base from it though by looking at the feeds resulting from some of the posts that made it to social sites.

Other than the social sites, a little is coming in from search engines. I find it incredible how easy it is for people to find my links when searching for some of the words I figured would have thousands of results before my pages.

Blog Traffic Credits

These sources aside, the rest of my traffic comes from blogs. It’s not a very high %, but I’d say it’s between 5-10% of my overall traffic. Some praise the content, some don’t. Some are just from comments I placed on other blogs. Either way I’ll give traffic credit where it’s due:

• Problogger.net
• Anarchia.org
• Moshez.livejournal.com
• 10000birds.com
• ladyanneblunt.blogspot.com
• Chronosynclastic Infundibulum
  
• bjornhaug.com
• canimakebigmoneyonline.com
• rylowry.com
• thatedeguy.com

Conclusion

So there you have it. I thank everyone out there for linking to my site. The whole blogging experience is really maintaining its excitement. I look forward to doing this every so often to return a little link love to those that shared in the first place. Where are your traffic sources? Do you have a good number of referring blog sources feeding your site? What % of the traffic comes from other blogs?

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