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Mayur
from pune |

Which are the major traffic sources for your blog(s)? 

Update:

If you have significant amount of traffic from Indiblogger please share some tips about that.

Edited
Reason: Feels it is necessary

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Antony
from Chennai |

Hi

Good that you brought this topic up. My main sources of traffic are: Indibloggger, facebook, twitter and google search engine.

One important thing that I want to say here is that bloggers who visit others blog can promote others blog if they like it by tweeting the blog or sharing it on facebook. This brings in huge traffic. Many people can discover good blogs and the blog owners can earn loyal readers. In western countries especially in US, the bloggers have a mechanism to promote each others blog. If you watch carefully many western blogs with mediocre content also gets lot of tweets and facebook shares inturn earning them huge traffic. But the fact remains that only good blogs retain the readers on the other hand it is also a fact the blog - good/bad gets discoverd by potential readers.

Sanjay Vedula
from Hyderabad |

i am sure the extra 'g' in "indibloggger" is extra respect for #indiblogger :P Am I right Antony? :P

Mohan
from Bangalore |

This is how it looks for my blog (http://www.mohanbn.com/) in the past 30 days.

Traffic source AND % of visits  is shown in this table.

1. google / organic 70.85% 2. (direct) / (none) 12.55% 3. google.co.in / referral 5.36% 4. yahoo / organic 1.87% 5. indiblogger.in / referral 1.35% 6. search / organic 1.05% 7. bing / organic 1.01%

Rohini
from Bangalore |

What traffic tracker do you use, Mohan?

Mohan
from Bangalore |

Google analytics :)

Mayur
from pune |

Great! Good amount of traffic from Indiblogger. Any tips you want to give for that?

Mohan
from Bangalore |

Sure, i will come up with a post on that :)

Addy
from Mumbai |

Did I just see Google written along Mohan's name? Surprised

Tongue out

Vijay
from Bangalore |

Good catch Addy :P Mohan and Google. It should've been Yahoo ?!?

S.R.Ayyangar
from BANGALORE |

Nice to know that you are going to come out with tips  on your blog. Also tell us HOW to infer/analyse  the various % of Google Analytics.

Aashish Sood
from Delhi |

mine is facebook, indiblogger and direct links

pundit
from Oslo |

The following table contains my traffic sources over the month of August as reported by Google Analytics.

Source / Medium Visits Pages/Visit Time on site 1. google / organic 2,343 1.57 00:00:45 2. (direct) / (none) 2,223 2.52 00:02:48 3. google.com / referral 799 1.50 00:00:25 4. indiblogger.in / referral 405 2.63 00:02:45 5. images.google.com / referral 382 1.28 00:00:20 6. bing / organic 248 1.49 00:00:45 7. veenart.com / referral 182 5.04 00:04:06 8. wordpress.org / referral 156 1.92 00:00:46 9. google.com.br / referral 143 1.43 00:00:20 10. yahoo / organic 126 1.45 00:00:18
Hemal Shah
from Mumbai |

Sources

Visits

% visits

google (organic)

396
39.80%

google.co.in (referral)

188
18.89%

(direct) ((none))

128
12.86%

indiblogger.in (referral)

76
7.64%

google.com (referral)

44
4.42%

Sakhi Shah
from Vadodara |

Okay, just a question - how do you guys see this data? 

Mohan
from Bangalore |

Google Analytics :)

Sowmya
from Chennai, Manama |

My stats for http://www.gitaaonline.com based on Google analytics are..

Sources                  Visits  % visits

google (organic) 30,554 60.40%

(direct) ((none)) 5,894 11.65%

images.google (organic) 1,489 2.94%

in.answers.yahoo.com (referral) 1,464 2.89%

google.co.in (referral) 1,261 2.49%

Sowmya

Vijay
from Bangalore |

Great to see this Sowmya, I am really glad to see traffic coming in from Google Images. Thats one area where the potential is really high. Good going!

Mayur
from pune |

For Me mainly Google and dzone works! sometimes Twitter and Stumbleupon too..!

Source/Medium None Visits Pages/Visit Avg. Time on Site % New Visits Bounce Rate 1. google / organic 3,265 1.27 00:00:51 93.78% 82.42% 2. dzone.com / referral 1,752 1.16 00:00:26 90.13% 89.61% 3. (direct) / (none) 1,359 1.33 00:01:08 76.82% 84.18% 4. stumbleupon.com / referral 341 1.54 00:00:38 97.95% 47.51% 5. mahalo.com / referral 206 1.68 00:02:08 90.78% 58.25% 6. facebook.com / referral 184 1.20 00:00:44 30.98% 89.13% 7. mkyong.com / referral 119 1.19 00:00:33 91.60% 84.87% 8. mashable.com / referral 87 1.33 00:01:37 96.55% 77.01% 9. google.com / referral 81 1.48 00:00:49 81.48% 71.60% 10. twitter.com / referral 70 1.19 00:01:03 70.00% 85.71%
Addy
from Mumbai |

How goos is the Blogger "Stats" tab for traffic analysis? 

Naveen
from Bengaluru |

My google analytics always showed 0! Surprised

Elizabeth Joseph
from Bangalore |

Hey Naveen,

You may have removed the analytics code when you changed your template. Insert the code given in analytics in the html code of your template, and you will see your traffic logged.

Naveen
from Bengaluru |

Where do i get the analytics code? :O

R Saraswathan
from Bangalore |

Thanks Naveen I installed Alexa Tool Bar in my Google Chrome browser. My Alexa Rank is 423073 and Google PR is 2. How good / bad is this?!

Naveen
from Bengaluru |

Thanks Naveen? Why that? The efforts have all been ur's sir! 

R Saraswathan
from Bangalore |

Suraj78 You have awesome numbers Dear! How do you make them happen!! Great Job.

suraj78
from Latur |

Thank you very much! Smile I just did my best as well as doing, I think making new relations and doing some SEO gave me this results. Also I can say that using self hosted blog that free blogger also can help to increase ranking as well as traffic.

R Saraswathan
from Bangalore |

Suraj78 How you cut and paste picture in this window. When I copy the pic and try to paste it does not work.

suraj78
from Latur |

Thanks for appreciation Sir! :) It will not work if you try to copy paste if will not work.

When you open analytics stat click on the button 'Print Screen' (right to the F12) and then open 'Paint' and copy via mouse or Ctr+V it will be their then you can crop it as u want and save it any format u want :) I hope it will work.

Thanks!

suraj78
from Latur |

Or if you are trying to put that image here then upload that image on blogger or anywhere and then use HTML option and insert it here. :)

Sujith
from Kerala |

My Stats:

Google (Organic)-64.50%

Direct - 17.07%

Google.co.in (Referral)-5.05%

Google.com (Referral)- 2.62%

Indiblogger (Referral)-1. 78%

Naveen
from Bengaluru |

What is this  - organic - thing? 

Hey, thanks sujith, now i am using that thing! invisible browsing!

Sujith
from Kerala |

Organic  means traffic from Search engines because of the relevance of search terms

Naveen, Now you can access the blocked sites ?

Mayur
from pune |

Nice % of Google traffic Sujith!

R Saraswathan
from Bangalore |

With your kind of LOFTY content Sowmya, you are bound to attract plenty of traffic google or otherwise. Excellent sites and I am an avid reader of Gitaaonline as well as Mantra on line. Kudos.

Manisha
from Mumbai |

i think the most important thing to attract traffic is to have a blog that covers topics of general interest.Suraj's website has universal appeal that is why he is so successful.

Would like to know if there  are any websites to register for free, which the general public sees when they want to  find blogs of interest

Amit Ahuja
from Sagar |

If one is using adsense on his blog, then he should concentrate on getting the most visits from search engines only to get most of the benefit of clicks.....

My blog TheFundu gets about 50% visit from search engines, 35 % from refering and rest 15% directly....