Google and Blog Traffic
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I’ve written about Google traffic generation in the past and this past week was a perfect opportunity for me to check out how many pages Google delivers to me and show you exactly the result of posting or not posting on this blog.
The image at the bottom of the post shows my traffic pattern over the past 30 days (it doesn’t show real numbers - just the pattern). You’ll see that a few days ago, I started posting and the traffic started climbing again. The week before that, I didn’t post and except for one day (Thursday - the day my newsletter comes out with a mention of an article for the week) there was insignificant numbers of readers compared to normal traffic days.
What this tells me is that Google doesn’t give me much traffic when people search for specific terms. This blog isn’t search engine optimized nor does it write about the things people search for. So why would Google send me much traffic? And it doesn’t as can be seen by the week I wasn’t posting. My traffic comes from readers and other short term links from other bloggers.
To be sure - Google does visit this blog but most of the posts are likely put right into the supplemental index or forgotten.
I could change that if I started writing specific things as “Google-bait” and do them in a search engine friendly method but I’m not overly interested in doing that. You could do the same thing - and that’s a decision you’ll have to make.
But the point of all this is to simply point out that Google treats blogs differently than websites (my website traffic continued nicely while I was away and not posting new articles).
And while the image below is from a screen capture, and not exactly picture quality, I think you can see the trend line while I was posting and when I stopped.
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