October traffic numbers for German History Blog

In a previous “woe is me” post about the lack of traffic at German History Blog, I indicated that I would update my traffic numbers here each month.   Of course the idea was that I would be implementing known strategies to increase those traffic numbers, and then report the (hopeful) improvements here with much fanfare.

In fact, I’ve not implemented those strategies as of yet.  Thanks to a very timely challenge at the SSWT Elite group forum, I’m on the brink of doing some guest posts at other blogs, which should at least temporarily spike the visitor numbers to points they’ve never been before.   I have three to four bloggers who are ready to receive these guest posts from me, but I haven’t written them yet!  So that should be done in the next few weeks, which means I’m hoping my November numbers will be noticeably higher than the October numbers which I’m about to show you here.

Despite my lack of strategy implementation so far, the numbers in October did show some improvement, as you see here:

German History Blog
Month	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages
2009-08	157	206	670
2009-09	166	181	332
2009-10	365	444	800

Considering that all I did was continue posting blog content during the month, I’m pretty pleased with these results.

I’ve noticed a few other improvements as well:

1. Previously, on the Google Toolbar, the page rank said something like “No page rank information available.”  Well that’s been “upgraded” to “0/10″. I’m on the radar!!
2. Search Engine traffic now makes up more than 50% of the incoming visitors.  Previously, my inbound traffic sources had been a lot of Twitter and “direct traffic”, which (I believe) is people using desktop Twitter clients.  I’m very glad to have Twitter traffic, but ultimately it’s extremely important to get traffic from search engines, since it means people are finally able to find the site via Google, etc.
3. I’m pleased to see that some visitors are finding me with the Google search “german and history”. “German history” is the keyword phrase that I would absolutely love to rule someday, so this excites me a bit.
4. I’m also pleased to see people finding me with the keyword phrase “berlin wall resources”, because I’ve devoted a lot of time in recent weeks to the topic (with the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall coming up.)  So when I noticed in the statistics that people are finding me with “berlin wall resources”,  I did a check in Google and I’m surprised (and happy) to see myself sometimes at number 1, sometimes down to number 4.  Cool.

Next Steps

Well the way forward is pretty clear: get those guest blog posts finished and submitted! After that will be some article marketing and Squidoo lenses.

Onwards!

Until next time,

Bill Dawson

P.S. In that previous post I also mentioned Trish Lindemood (fellow SSWT Elite member) and her 90-day challenge to increase traffic. She’s just updated her numbers for October and is also excited to see more traffic coming via search engines.

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