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Closing down on that traffic source split

David Parkinson — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:24:50 +0000

Around 2 months ago i spoke about how i wanted a good split of traffic sources heading to talk playstation. I mentioned that having a good split is very good and talk playstation wasn’t doing that for me, back then the split was mainly from refferals and direct traffic. I wanted to build upon search engine traffic.

Well 2 months later i’m starting to see a lot more traffic come from search engine. The split looks like this as of today:

I’m still not happy with it because i want it pretty much even steven. I’m not too fussed about direct traffic, i just want a lot more traffic from the search engines.

I’m going to have to step back and take look and reassess what i can do to make things better in the search engines.

In two months i will make another post similar to this one to see if anything has improved.

I’m getting there, almost at number 1

David Parkinson — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:59:03 +0000

I few weeks ago i made a post regarding how i rank in Google for my own name, David Parkinson. I’ve just checked now and i rank in at number 2! My ultimate aim is to become number 1 in Google for my own name! Why? I just want to see if i can achieve it. I’ve also noticed that Yahoo are now indexing my blog post on both this blog and talkplaystation almost as quick as Google are!

This is pretty good because there needs to be another search engine that is as quick as Google.

No need to worry about indexing anymore

David Parkinson — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:09:04 +0000

Everytime i made a new blog post i used to check in Google and other search engines to see if it’s been indexed. Not anymore. I hardly every check now because Google is probably guaranteed to index a blog post within one hour. If it doesn’t then it’s usually when it next crawls your site.

This is good because if you want to get some traffic quickly and have some good news to post you can take this quick indexing method to get a good head start on things. An example of this is smemon’s post on the eduardo injury that happened a couple of months ago.

This is a good tactic for any blogger who wishes to seek out search engine traffic.

I’ve got talkplaystation.com to a point where i don’t have to keep an eye on indexing because i know it will index. Although i’m not receiving great traffic through search engines for talkplaystation, it’s going up day by day though. I need to improve in this area and get more search engine traffic. I will be focusing on this next week.

It’s good to have a good split of traffic sources

David Parkinson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:42:56 +0000

The title says it all. It’s good to get a good split of traffic sources. What i mean by this is when you check your web stats; you want to check to see where all your visitors are coming from. If there is an area lacking, you need to improve in that area.

Daparky.com has a good split of traffic sources and it looks like this:

Most of my traffic is coming from search engines which is exactly what i want. I could improve on the referring sites a little, but that’s nothing to worry about.

Let’s take a look at the traffic sources for talkplaystation.com:

Although the traffic is excellent, the split is pretty bad. I need to get more search engine traffic and that is my current goal for talkplaystation.com. Direct and referring traffic is excellent, it would be even better to get traffic from search engines and to get traffic from search engines you need good quality content and lots of it.

I do have a few good articles written for talkplaystation that may drive some traffic. I need to get as many backlinks as possible to rank high or until i start to see some traffic from search engines. This is what i’m going to concentrate on in the coming weeks. Talkplaystation has only been online for just over a week, and it takes time to rank high.

All going positive so far. I just need to be patience.