The most visits to digivation.net in the past year peaked in March, with over 800 “unique” visitors (pretty good for a little random-topic site like this). Due to lack of time/distractions/laziness, the writing became less frequent/good and visitations dropped off (reaching a low of barely over 400 in May). With renewed gusto (probably due in part to my cohort Chappie), we shall attempt to have a record-breaking month in July. NB: The above image doesn’t have any data before February 28th. I used Google Analytics before switching to reinvigorate.
Our goal is to surpass the number of visitors from March. For July, we are aiming for 1100 “unique” visitors as tracked by reinvigorate.net. This lofty (for us) goal can only be attained with sustained, quality writing. Something that catches the eye of everyone who sees it and keeps readers interested and returning. In the past, my record number of posts for one month is 15 (which may will be surpassed this month, as this is the 15th post of July). Since Chappie, my new partner in crime writing has joined the team, the goal needs to be a little higher - therefore, we shall produce 30 UPDATE: we’re gonna go for SIXTY quality articles next month (more if Chappie decrees it so at least one post per day, per writer). I hope to post some much-improved stats this time next month!
June 2007 Statistics
Note: a great source of tips and techniques to improve your writing can be found at Copyblogger. While more business and product oriented, the tips are still very useful.
4 responses so far »
1 Michael Chappell // Jun 25, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Actually, I would like to significantly increase our RETURN visitors, although I’m not confident that the software tracks it very well. I think if it can’t resolve a specific IP, than it just counts it as a new visitor, but most internet services dynamically assign IPs each time you connect….so, that equals return visitors counted as new visitors.
2 Matthew Smith // Jun 25, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Agreed. As I (briefly) mentioned, if we crank out enough quality content, we will have the best chance of earning return visitors.
As for the software’s ability to track return visitors, it can be no more accurate than any other package, due to limitations such as you mentioned. It is possible that the reinvigorate script places a user cookie to track returns, but I am not sure of this, nor have I investigated the situation.
However, there aren’t many options for tracking return visitors; checking the IP, a cookie, or having them log in to the site are about the limit of any sort of tracking.
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