My blog's traffic for 2010
My blog's traffic for 2010
I've noticed that some bloggers published their annual blog stats, which gave me the idea to publish mine. Actually my title should be "My blogs' traffic", as most of you know, I have 3 blogs (with 3 feeds), but they're all from one Blogger account and have the same name. That's my concept and it's really going well for me.
1 My stats for December 2010
I had 21,640 unique visits (and 60,132 page views), which is 698 visits per day.2 My stats for the whole 2010
I had 212,182 unique visits (and 476,091 page views), which is 581 visits a day.3 Subscriber stats
My main blog (this one) has 171 subscribers in Google reader, my Quick-post blog has 37 and my photo blog has 5, because it's relatively new. There are of course more feed aggregators, but I haven't checked any other than the one from Google. I've also noticed that there must be at least 20 regular visitors, who bookmarked my blog and about 30 who come irregularly, but also bookmarked one of my blogs or posts.
4 Most popular posts
Believe it or not, my most popular posts are usually the one about women. They bring me the most traffic from Google and that's why I like to write them. They increase my blog's searchability and many people are browsing my other stuff, too, when they come here looking for a post about a certain model or singer. My best day was August 25, when I had 7747 visitors on my blog in one single day and they were all reading my most popular post of 2010: Visit Taipei in traditional Chinese (22235 views in the whole year). The runner-up post was about Elly Tran Ha (18990 views in the whole year) and third was about Yao Yao (15862 views in the whole year). It's funny that these two posts became so popular, because they're so simple and boring. But for some reason they always show up close to the top of Google's search results, even though there are thousands of posts about these two (former) internet sensations.
I doubt that I can top 2010's traffic, but if I come close to it, I'll already consider it a huge success. I'm just a simple blogspot blog, who writes about so many different things, so I think my traffic is not bad. Sure, I hope I could have around 1000 daily views and double my subscribers, but that's hard to predict. I'll continue to write personal, funny, trivial and encyclopedic posts, mixed with my travelogues and foodventures. A lot will be about Taiwan, because that's where I will soon relocate, but I try to make it general and interesting also to those, who don't care about the country so much. I can't wait to go around Taipei with my girlfriend's DSLR and visit all the night markets, temples and famous spots. I do aspire to be the number 1 blog on Taipei and one of the best resources on Taiwan in general. Besides, my girlfriend and I plan to visit Japan, not sure, if we can make it, though. If we do make it, be sure I'll blog about it for a month. Regarding my layout, I'm never really satisfied. The buttons I use on my sidebars are all made with Photoshop and are in jpg. format. I'm thinking about making a CSS styled vertical navigation bar. And also I think I'm gonna make all my 3 blogs same color, so it'll really look like one.
What do you think about these ideas regarding the layout?
What was your traffic for 2010 and which posts and topics were most popular?
What do you think about these ideas regarding the layout?
What was your traffic for 2010 and which posts and topics were most popular?
15 KAFKAESQUE COMMENTS:
Happy 2011 to you!
I hope your stats grow and grow.
It seems to me (personally speaking) that to comment on who lurks, what you plan, is for people other than me. My apologies in advance therefore, if I remain a visitor/commentator and just enjoy what you do.
January 20, 2011 4:38 AM
very impressive stats, i might publish my own if ever they reach those lofty proportions!
i'm sure you'll go from strength to strength!
January 20, 2011 5:13 AM
@ZACL: Thank you. And no apologies, please, it's fine :)
@AdamAntixx: Thank you. I would love to see your stats, too :) You must have many silent readers, because only few comment. Maybe they're women, hehe.
January 20, 2011 5:21 AM
Congrats, MKL, for your 2010 achievements! I'm sure you will do well this year too. Keep working and we will keep reading :)
January 20, 2011 5:25 AM
@Traveling Hawk: Thanks. I'll do my best. Hope everything will go fine.
January 20, 2011 5:36 AM
:) I wanted to post this and looks like you do it first hahahaha :D
cool!
January 20, 2011 8:53 AM
Personally I'm not a fan of the 3 blog layout.
It dilutes your SEO and seems to create unnecessary extra work for you.
I'd probably try and consolidate everything down into one blog. Easier to keep track of, stronger SEO and everyone is commenting in the same place.
January 20, 2011 11:19 AM
Wow! I want my blog stats to look like yours! I hope you get more and more hits, looking forward to the nightmarket posts!
January 20, 2011 3:22 PM
@Netster: Do it, I'm curious :) I'm sure your traffic increased a lot in 2010 like mine :)
@OzSoapbox: It is extra work, but that was my choice. My green blog was first meant to serve my pages and lists and then I turned it to an equal blog. And I'm glad, if I don't get comments there, that blog is my outlet, I can write short or trivial stuff and it's still ok. This blog here has the best SEO and most followers, so I try to keep the quality high. 3 blogs increase each other's SEO, because I interlink a lot. In 2010 I had 5 times more traffic than 2009, so it works fine to me :)
@Hsin-Yi: I'm sure you can make it. Maybe try to comment on some Taiwanese blogs. If you get Taiwanese readers, you can have better stats than me. Blogging seems to be no 1 hobby in Taiwan. Lily told me that some blogs have 20k to 50k visits a day, that's something I know I can never reach :)
January 20, 2011 4:11 PM
ok i'll just pretend that i understood the technical terms >.<
it was very impressive to see the changes to ur blog/s and the amount of visitors growing and growing...rest assured, i'm sure that 2011 will bring u even more visitors! goooooo nino!!! conquer the blogging world! =D
January 20, 2011 7:03 PM
blog with objective. thats good!
January 21, 2011 1:06 AM
Congratulations on the success of your blog :) You have many visitors and I'm sure they get a lot of information from your travels too!
Hmm, I'm very very un-computer savvy. So I really have no opinion regarding your sidebar layout. I think it works well right now and I have no idea what CCS or what you're able to do in Photoshop :S Sorry! I'm no help there.
For me, my top is the the Canada's Wonderland post /Olympic Bobsled post in Calgary followed by the post I did comparing the two Samsung front screen digital cameras (you actually commented on that post saying it would be popular and you were right!)
January 21, 2011 5:22 AM
Nice! that's a lot of traffic Nino! :P Way more than mine! :P
Its always nice to change the layout once in a while huh. :)
Before I used to have a black background but I had a reader tell me that it was hard to read on their ipod touch/iphone.
So maybe that's something you might want to consider when you do decide to change your page :)
January 22, 2011 5:38 PM
Congratz GongXi GongXi! Nicely and neatly structured layout, Bananaz like it. Man you are doing great..Kudos ~;).
January 22, 2011 10:22 PM
@Kit: Haha.. so cute. Thank you :)
@Lily: Thanks.
@Karen: I think by now I already know what stuff is usually googled. It will always be reviews and technical stuff, that's the info people want. The "I went to eat a cake with my friends" posts are never googled (too many), usually few followers read them and that's it :)
@Kay: I did make several changes recently, but minor tweaks. However I can't change the black sidebars to different colors, because I feel that's something unique about my blog. The content bar is white and I hope easy to read :)
@Bananaz: Thank you, Mr. Pisang :)
January 23, 2011 2:38 AM
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