Keeping A Blog Traffic Diary

[Yaro]

As part of Blog Traffic School I encourage all the students to make use of these forums as much as they can.

One of the key activities in the course is to maintain a "blogging diary" which is a forum entry here where you detail how your blog growth is going, what techniques you are implementing to grow your blog traffic and reporting back to the community the results of testing these techniques.

I encourage every student of the course and even those bloggers not in the course to keep a traffic diary because it can really help your blog's growth by attracting input from the community. I also encourage you to comment on other blogger's diaries to help them grow their traffic and exchange feedback and ideas.

You can see my example diary here -
http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/forums/introduce-your-blog/395-entrepreneurs-journey-com-yaro-starak.html

How To Start A Diary

It's easy - just start a new forum post in this forum and start by entering the following details:

1. Blog Name:
2. Blog URL:
3. Blog Description:
4. Blog Benefits: (what your blog offers to people - what benefits they would get from reading your blog - part of the USP section in Blog Traffic School Course).

5. Current traffic: (uniques per month, pageviews per month)
6. Traffic goals: (desired uniques per month, pageviews per month)
7. Personal goals from blogging: (what you want to achieve as a result of your blog)

You could also include:

- Your name
- Your location
- Your age, sex, occupation, etc
- Anything else about you or your blog.

This information forms the basis of your first post to introduce your blog. Later, once you begin testing traffic techniques or at any point where something happens to boost your blog traffic you come back to your intro post and write a Field Report.

How To Record A Blog Traffic Field Report

A field report explains what technique you implemented at your blog to grow your blog traffic and explains the results - what happened.

You should include these details:

Field Report Title:

Blog Name:
Blog URL:
Name:

Explanation:
Results:

Again, if this confuses you, take a look at my intro post and field report diary here -

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Note that my blog is well advanced so the techniques I am testing might not be appropriate for your blog - it depends how old and developed your blog is.

That doesn't mean you can't start doing field reports immediately - just write about whatever traffic techniques and results you are achieving now. Moving from 10 visitors a day to 50 visitors a day is still an achievement worth reporting so we can all learn how you did it.

Good luck and I look forward to reading your field reports!

Yaro

[Stretsh]

The above link is not working. It brings me to the forum main page.

[Yaro]

Good point Stretsh - all fixed now!

[Mark]

I love the idea of a blog diary, but I am at a total loss trying to figure out how to put a counter on my blog.......

[GoldLizard]

I don't know how to install & use a counter, either. I clicked on Yaro's link to his diary, and it didn't work. Tried it twice. It takes me back to the previous Forums page.

Also, I've been trying several times over the past couple days to access the Traffic Tips Archives. I don't seem to have the correct password?

So I have a lot of questions about the Blog Traffic Diary, and I can't get access to more info.

[dixonge]

Mark and GoldLizard,

Wow - this is an old thread! But I think I can help a bit here.

The simplest and probably most frequently used counter is from Site Meter - Counter and Statistics Tracker - you just sign in and they give you HTML code to paste into your blog. If you are using WordPress you can paste it into a text box in a sidebar widget. They have a free version or you can pay for some extra features.

A more sophisticated package is Google's new Analytics package. The concept is the same - sign in and it gives you HTML to paste into your site.

There is a WordPress plugin that works with *both* of these packages called Better Stats Insertion which may help simplify the process for you.

[dixonge]

GoldLizard,

Yaro screwed up the first link in that post, but the second one works. Or you can just click here.

I'm not sure about the archives - I'm a subscriber to the BlogTrafficKing newsletter but I haven't seen a password....

[shahzadmasih]

Hi, this post is very informative; however I would like some specific information. If someone can help me then please send me a private message. Best Regards,

[Yaro]

Yeah this thread is old and the first link doesn't work because we installed an SEO plug-in to this forum that changed the URLs.

Have a look through the history of this forum for other traffic reports and you should see what people did. A few people, like Littlemummy.com, kept up their traffic reports for a while, but most people just did one and then gave up.

[Musicology101]

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