How I Doubled My Pageviews Overnight for Free
Looking for More Traffic to Your Site and Increased Click-thru Rates? Read On
This was all free. I've yet to invest in the Google Adwords campaign that I plan to launch to drive up blog traffic like John Chow has done.
No, I moved up my StatCounter.com VIEW MY STATS button to a more visible location.
While the average number of visitors on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week remained consistent as shown on this graph, the following Friday, Saturday and Sunday saw my pageviews increase and double on average.
Viewers must find it interesting to click on the VIEW MY STATS button then click on features like POPULAR PAGES, which gives a good current breakdown of my most popularly-viewed pages. (Once I actually increase my log size file greater than 100 meg -- I'm assuming -- this will even be more invaluable and list more stats about my popular pages.)
Another interesting click point is probably the RECENT KEYWORD ACTIVITY feature that I also like to use. It shows you the truly varied (and sometimes hilarious) search terms folks have typed in to find you.
My blog readers (many of them probably new visitors 'cause I'm banking on search engine traffic over subscribers right now, because I believe the search engine traffic will ultimately bring the subscriber numbers, which are slowly and steadily growing) must click on these features to investigate my stats, then click on the resulting blog pages of mine that StatCounter returns them to.
This is such a win-win, because it has helped people come back to my site and remain on my blog longer, where they're more apt to read advertisements or buy affiliate products and such. I just checked my Google Adsense account and verified that my click-thru rate (page CTR) is getting better. More people clicked on my Google Adsense ads (twice as many on Thursday as the previous day) and my CTR is steadily improving.
So there you have it. If you're so inclined and are looking to increase pageviews, add the StatCounter code to your site.
Then add a NICE bold noticeable VIEW MY STATS link to your site in a highly visible location, along with the largest count button in bold colors you can dream up that'll catch your readers' eyes.
Don't worry if your stats are low. Try it...this may be one way to increase them. Hey, I wasn't even paid to promote this. Does StatCounter have an affiliates program?
Published by Paula Neal Mooney
Paula Neal Mooney is owner of Plunder LLC, a media and publishing company. A screenwriter and journalist for major websites like Yahoo and Examiner, Paula has also been published in various national print... View profile
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18 Comments
Post a CommentLove this information. I am going to stumble upon it also because it is so informative.
Yes, you are right. I had done the same thing few days ago. It worked. In my case it was 5 times. I installed feedjit, and visitors were seen to click on the article page straightaway. www.rajivzone.blogspot.com
So much to learn...so little time.
As a new contributor on AC, I found this article very informative. Thanks!
I had a stats counter with an affiliate program and got exactly one sign up. I was wondering why most visitors did no stay on my site until I found that most of them came from a search for "Lend a hand, hear the band". So I blogged about that hoping to draw traffic to my blog. My website blogs do not have sidebars (which I keep bugging them the server to add), but I think I will try your suggestion for the website and see what happens. Thanks for sharing.
I must admit I was wrong about this one. But I love StatCounter, and keeping the counter script up top on my blog is great for a good count, yet the "view my stats" I realized I was wrong about because I had accidentally had the counter code twice on my blog and that's why the pageviews were double. Someone also told me about GoStats.com -- another great stat counter I love. Check it out!
Thanks, I just had statcounter installed on my site and I am very excited about it.
Great article and very eye catching title!
Sophie
VERY interesting! I'm learning A LOT from you! :)
Great Tips I have stat counter and never thought to do this I will now. I have read through several of your articles and you have lots of great Ideas I am going to have to try and use. Thanks for the advice you have given.