Stats dropping on sites
by Sapphire (July 13, 2007)
I’ve never before felt the summer drop in visitors. All my sites were still growing, I guess, so they would continue to slowly improve or remain steady during those months.
This year, Project B-3 Bomber, which got around 13,500 visitors in May, then about 13,800 in June, may drop to under 12k this month. It’s taken a couple of weeks of stats for me to see what’s happening, but it’s basically that a lot of my better inbounds are from bloggers… and the bloggers aren’t posting as much right now (I suspect many of them are college students, off for the summer, or SAH moms and dads with kids home for the summer). Hence, those links aren’t working for me like they were.
Plus, I opened two new blogs on that site recently, on subdomains, and I think they’re diluting the SE love I used to get from Google. They’re getting good traffic from searches, and the main site is getting less than it’s gotten in the past.
But ultimately, that means there’s nothing I’m doing wrong or need to change. The three inter-linked sites on that domain can only boost one another in the end; and my inbound bloggers will be back later. I just need to keep building inbounds, like always, and I’m taking some steps to do that, like always.
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July 17th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
As a long time affiliate manager I see the same numbers come up, or down as this case may be, every summer. The only thing that sometimes happens positively is that conversion sometimes, and I mean sometimes, improve, so that lower traffic numbers may not result in big dips in income. You’re not doing anything wrong your just in the normal swoon.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:02 am
That’s good to hear, Durk.