I started my website and google analytics just over a month ago and these are my stats. Depending on the search criteria, I can range from page 1-10, but the amount of traffic I get from google is almost nothing. Considering my stats, if I can get the eyeballs, I tend to keep them. Do you agree?

Curious what your stats are and how your site is doing.

Thanks for sharing your analytics. The bounce rate is really impressive.
The traffic statistics is like business secrets to webmasters, I am sure they won't show it here unless they want to promote their site.

What is your secret then, apart from Photoshop? On a serious note where is the majority of your traffic coming from to get stats like that?

Thanks for your sharing.

well its too personal for the webmaster to promote their site like this .. thanks for sharing

Unless I was worried about my direct competition, why would it be too personal? I am really curious how others compare.

Nope, no photoshop. The source of my traffic isn't why my numbers are as good as they are. If you've been to my site and google'd, you would see I have a lot of established competition. But I believe, and I think my numbers reflect that, I have built a better 'mousetrap'.

My problem, is that even with these numbers, and even doing google adwords and facebook advertising, I get extremely little from google and other search engines. I am wondering how long it should take for google and other search engines to kick in and drive traffic to my site, because as you can see, once they do come to my site, they tend to use it a lot and return.

Shouldn't google be looking at my numbers and ranking my site as a very quality site or does it take more than 5-6 weeks? I've been over and over and over SEO sites, having the automated tools analyze it. I think I've spent more time trying to promote and raise it in the search engine lists than I have on the content of the site itself, although this SEO thing is new to me and seems to be a never ending job.

So are others willing to share, or at least give some tips on what they found really worked with getting ranked and driving traffic from the search engines? Thanks.

Search engines take time, at least 3 months minimum before you see even the remote amount of traffic from search enignes. Usually after 6 months it starts to become a bit more steady. If you SEO the crap out of your website and such.

amazing, any tips? how you achieve that?

Originally Posted by butterflyseo

amazing, any tips? how you achieve that?

This has nothing to do with SEO, links, etc. This is all about content. Whatever your niche area, be the best in it. I looked at my competitors and knew I could do a lot better.

I am sure they still get more traffic than me, which is the part I am struggling with now, but I an guarantee their stats are no where near mine. Fighting for the top spots in the search engines is tough and unfortunately has a lot to do with time. I am not a patient person.

So is no one going to share their Google analytics or at least summarize where they are at? If a competitor see's your numbers and yours are better, what is the worst they can do? Gloat?

Why is it you are all so obsessed with numbers that you don't understand??

What do page views mean for EACH of your pages?
What does "bounce rate" mean for each page?
Do you how to calculate the ROI, or the cost per visitor, cost per conversion?
Do you know which are your best performing referrers?
Do you know which pages are weak, or performing badly?

Stupid metrics such as "average time on site", pages per visitor are all useless for the majority of websites.

You look at the wrong numbers and pat yourself on the back for being so clever. If you have lead generating pages, affiliate advert pages or adsense loaded pages WHY do you care how many pages they look at? All you want is them to arrive and leave via an advert.

If your site sells products you want them to leave via the "Pay Now" link.

If your site is just a hobby with no commercial aspect why do you care?

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Why is it you are all so obsessed with numbers that you don't understand??

What do page views mean for EACH of your pages?
What does "bounce rate" mean for each page?
Do you how to calculate the ROI, or the cost per visitor, cost per conversion?
Do you know which are your best performing referrers?
Do you know which pages are weak, or performing badly?

Stupid metrics such as "average time on site", pages per visitor are all useless for the majority of websites.

You look at the wrong numbers and pat yourself on the back for being so clever. If you have lead generating pages, affiliate advert pages or adsense loaded pages WHY do you care how many pages they look at? All you want is them to arrive and leave via an advert.

If your site sells products you want them to leave via the "Pay Now" link.

If your site is just a hobby with no commercial aspect why do you care?

Between google analytics and ad sense I get most of the statistics you mention. I care about the income and the popularity of the site, but not from a business perspective. Don't you like to write or create something and see people using it? To me that is a measure of success and the stats I pasted show that people use and like what I've done.

On top of getting a warm fuzzy from creating something people seem to enjoy, I am making a little money, not much, but then again I am not looking at the site to replace my income. Not to mention this is a learning experience. I can use what I've learned from this site and apply it to my next idea or help someone else start up a business that requires a web front end.

Don't you get the same from these forum? Creating something people like to use, helping them, and at the same time generate some ad revenue?

And if nobody looked at the pages would you stop doing it?

For me;

The accounts determine if a commercial site is working or not not some vague stats.
The hobby/information sites it does not matter whether 1 person a year or 100,000 a day look at them, mostly they serve a different purpose.

"bounce rate" is only meaningful for paid campaign landing pages or for "organic" traffic if you are analysing a particular referrer.
If your "link building" methods are the "machine gun" tactics of "social media" and the like then the "bounce rate" IS going to be "high" because it is mostly random traffic from mainly disinterested people who are simply "killing time"

Originally Posted by chrishirst

And if nobody looked at the pages would you stop doing it?

For me;

The accounts determine if a commercial site is working or not not some vague stats.
The hobby/information sites it does not matter whether 1 person a year or 100,000 a day look at them, mostly they serve a different purpose.

"bounce rate" is only meaningful for paid campaign landing pages or for "organic" traffic if you are analysing a particular referrer.
If your "link building" methods are the "machine gun" tactics of "social media" and the like then the "bounce rate" IS going to be "high" because it is mostly random traffic from mainly disinterested people who are simply "killing time"

I would lose interest if no one was using it. I did my HOA website and with 58 homes it wouldn't generate much traffic anyway, but after seeing such low numbers from it, the initial spark I had to do it has disappeared. I kept going to make sure we had some good functionality, but beyond that it is hard to push yourself on something people don't seem to use.

Bounce rate is nice to see because it shows people that come to your site use it. I keep my own stats for my sites also, a 3 tabbed page that shows unique users, page views(full page refreshes), hits(full page views and partial), broken down by ip, username if they are authenticated, etc. I also keep track of online and active users with my own code.

You don't feel better if you wrote a site that had several hundred unique users a day rather than 10, and they actually used the site, even for a hobby site?

the stats seem to be impressive why are you having those problem??? all you need to do is maintain or improve that.

Originally Posted by full house

the stats seem to be impressive why are you having those problem??? all you need to do is maintain or improve that.

I think it is because we are so new. We have links to our site out there, but they are only from several sources and not sure if those have been crawled and processed yet. We aren't even on all the search engines. I doubt they look at our site as relevant yet.

I need to be patient. If users like the site as much as the traffic suggests than they will post links out there too, which will help. Sad that I spend as much or more time trying to do research on SEO and promoting the site than actual work on the site now.

Originally Posted by aygabtu.com

I started my website and google analytics just over a month ago and these are my stats. Depending on the search criteria, I can range from page 1-10, but the amount of traffic I get from google is almost nothing. Considering my stats, if I can get the eyeballs, I tend to keep them. Do you agree?

Curious what your stats are and how your site is doing.

I am afraid that you are not blocking your own visits to your website thats why the bounce rate and average visit time is toooo high? and you yuorself said that you are not getting much visitors from google search etc, please recheck if you have blocked your own visit data in GA.

Originally Posted by otssolutions

I am afraid that you are not blocking your own visits to your website thats why the bounce rate and average visit time is toooo high? and you yuorself said that you are not getting much visitors from google search etc, please recheck if you have blocked your own visit data in GA.

The first week or two my site was up, I made that mistake, well I didn't know I could turn it off. But I track stats other ways, so I knew the numbers from google were close, albeit a little inflated those first two weeks. I have since turned it off.

Evidence that the numbers are real are below. The first image is a partial screen shot of my own tracking. This is broken out by IP, but I cutoff the IP. You can see the overall page view count by each IP and the page view count for today. The second is google-analytics for just today, which I have done nothing on the site except for a single page refresh.

From the visits today, according to google, only 3 are from google which had 12.67 pages/visit and 23:58 minutes on site. No traffic from other search engines. You can also see that only 21% are new visits, which is good and bad. It means I get a lot of repeat people(good), but I am not introducing a majority of new traffic(bad).

It is sad that a site that seems to be liked as much as mine, is not getting the attention it should be getting. Hopefully it is just a newness issue. If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions to get my site higher, faster on the search engines that would be great.