SiteFever Monthly Update (Part 2)- August 2007

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SiteFever Monthly Update (Part 2)- August 2007

This is in follow-up of part 1 of our August monthly update.

Part 1 mostly covered the monetary aspect while this part will outline how things went from a traffic and popularity aspect.

First, let’s look at our monthly AwStats traffic report:

AwStats reported 8,123 unique visitors and 463,126 total pages viewed for August. Google Analytics was not installed on SiteFever until the end of the month. However, our AwStats vs. Google Analytics report on August 31 showed that Google showed an approximate 25.7% difference in traffic over AwStats. Using that percentage, we can estimate that if Google Analytics had been tracking our stats all month it would of reported approximately 6,035 unique visitors and 344,102 monthly page views.

In addition to traffic, I have also been tracking some other stats as well:

Technorati Authority

Technorati Rank

RSS Subscribers

Alexa Rank

MyBlogLog Community Members

All of the above stats showed a dramatic improvement throughout the month. Put into a percentage, here’s what I’ve come up with:

All of the stats showed over a 300% increase throughout the month while our RSS subscribers increased over 500%. We hope that our RSS subscribers continue to increase each day.

My purpose in showing all these stats and charts is twofold. First, some of you simply ask me to show them- a few are just curious and others are interested in advertising and would like to see how well the blog is doing. Secondly, I really want to stress the importance of tracking your progress over multiple channels.

So many blog owners have been caught up in the PageRank frenzy and have forgotten to pay attention to anything other than a number that Google assigns them 4 times per year. I strongly recommend that you make yourself a spreadsheet and track your stats on a daily basis. With just a few clicks, you can easily make yourself a chart to visualize how your blog is doing from day to day. This will help you quickly spot any areas of your blog that you may need to put a little more emphasis on.

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