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Understanding the Traffic on Your Blog

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How to analyse your blog’s visitors statistics

A serious blog is geared towards its audience. As a serious blogger, it is important you understand your audience, your readers. Simple and free tools like Google Analytics, will give you heaps of figures, but how do you make sense out of all that? What do these figures mean and what can I do with [...]

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Part 1: Traffic Quantity

A serious blog is geared towards its audience. As a serious blogger, it is important you understand your audience, your readers. When I started blogging, I struggled to understand my blog traffic. Simple and free tools like Google Analytics, gave me heaps of figures and graphs, but it took me a while before I could [...]

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Part 2: Traffic Quality

In Part 1 of this series we concentrated on the quantity of your blog visitors. We used a case study based on the 300,000 visitors on The Road to the Horizon, my personal non-profit blog. In Part 2, we will focus on the quality of your traffic: Based on the 7 main groups of traffic [...]

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Conclusions

Using an actual blog as a case study, we looked at the quantity of the traffic in Part 1 of this series. In Part 2, we zoomed in on the quality of the traffic. In this post, we will summarize our conclusions and practical tips. The bottom line A blog, just like any website, has [...]

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