What a difference a year makes

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January 31, 2008

What a difference a year makes

Like many bloggers, I’m obsessed with my visitor traffic. And like many bloggers, I use Statcounter.com for free web traffic reporting. My traffic from yesterday vs. a year ago yesterday is very revealing.

Tuesday, January 30th 2007
51 Page Loads - 31 Unique Visitors
Wednesday, January 30th 2008
313 Page Loads - 227 Unique Visitors

The real turning point for my site came in March. The site started getting more traffic that month and on on March 20th, 2007 saw a major spike. That was the day the Grand Canyon Skywlk had it’s ceremonial “First Walk” (which I attended) But due to the extra press coverage and my previous coverage (including pictures) I was an unofficial authority. At least good enough for the search engines.

So what did my stats look like that day?

Tuesday, March 20th 2007
1,098 Page Loads - 815 Unique Visitors

Even getting linked on Slate.com didn’t generate that much traffic. But Slate.com will have a more lasting effect on my web traffic.

P.S. That dip in my stats around June 21st…I had removed the tracking code from my site by accident.

2 comments

At 10:34 am on January 31, 2008, Radioactive Jam commented:

So, what are your projections for a year from now? :-)
At 11:06 am on January 31, 2008, archshrk commented:

Good question. I honestly hadn’t though about that.

I think that keeping with my current market strategy (that is, blog about whatever nonsense comes to mind) I should double my site traffic stats by this time next year. Can’t say the same for my returning visitor count though.