the google analytics show for yesterday
80 visits - 240 page views
which is more important?

The most important is to have a lot of unique visitors i guess. But its also important to have a high Pages per visit number.

this is from april 1st - today

• 1,784 Visits

• 1,512 Absolute Unique Visitors

• 3,640 Pageviews

• 2.04 Average Pageviews

• 00:02:03 Time on Site

• 72.76% Bounce Rate

• 79.04% New Visits

Neither is important!!!!


Did anyone of those "visitors" actually earn you any money?????

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Neither is important!!!!


Did anyone of those "visitors" actually earn you any money?????

If traffic is not important for a website, what is important? Would like to hear your expertise. Thanks!

Originally Posted by zygsh

If traffic is not important for a website, what is important?

First I'll ask you a question.



Why do you have a website?

Originally Posted by chrishirst

First I'll ask you a question.



Why do you have a website?

Its not always because you want to make money. Eg - Wikipedia

Many people built a site to et higher PR and then sell their links...

So how come a website is only there to make money through conversions or advertisements?

Originally Posted by makemoney123

Its not always because you want to make money. Eg - Wikipedia

Sure there are many sites that are there for purely altruistic reasons. However the operators of those sites are not asking "how to get more traffic", they are simply satisfied that the site exists and it matters not whether it is seen by one person a year or 20,000 a day.

Originally Posted by makemoney123

Many people built a site to et higher PR and then sell their links...

So to make money then?

Originally Posted by makemoney123

So how come a website is only there to make money through conversions or advertisements?

It isn't necessarily, but if you are NOT looking for conversions or advert impression or clicks why would you care about traffic?

I'm pretty sure the owners of wiki are taking a nice salary for their efforts

Originally Posted by ThailandForum

I'm pretty sure the owners of wiki are taking a nice salary for their efforts

And so they should... they provide the world with a web site that people find useful, interesting and entertaining

Originally Posted by chrishirst

First I'll ask you a question.



Why do you have a website?

You could have 1BILLION hits a day and they all become useless and a waste of bandwidth unless they CONVERT to a sale or some kind of useful thing.

I think visits are more important than the page views. As more the visits means your site is getting more traffic.

The question that you has asked really great question. Both are important. if you will not get huge visitors then you will fell to achieve good review. Also if you get good visitor and less page view then no use. So both are important.

Thats really a good question chrishirst, had the same dilemma i figured it out that you are right on the purpose of building the site.

I think visits are more important than page view.
more visit means more traffic in your site.

Both are important on there places and there should be high ratio of unique visitors.

Originally Posted by detailer

there should be high ratio of unique visitors.

Why?? And to what??

As said, I think it depends on the purpose of the site.

Success is decided in how many of those visitors complete the action you want them to complete.

You could have a million visits a day, but if you have a 70% bounce rate and only one of them converts, all that traffic is pointless.

I'd say pages visited means little, because it could be one or two visitors looking at everything.

Go on bounce rate, and how many of your visitors actually convert.

suppose you visit on site and read around 10 pages around the site, google analytic will show
visit = 1
page views = 10

Number of visits is more important in SEO, while number of pageviews depends on lot's of factors like
1. quality of your aritcles and i'ts information,
2. site look and eye catching template and many more...

I think visitor is important, isn't it?