Can't get a good visitors per day answer.

22 Jan 12 10:32 pm

Hi Paul,

I have the same problem with StatPress WP plugin. It seems to over estimate the number of 'true' visitors.

You might want to see what awstats says in your website cpanel.

Also recently I have started using www.statcounter. Its a free plug, for up to a certain number of page views.

It's easy to install and newbie friendly. (Not saying that you are a newbie)

Also installed http://www.piwik.org. This was more difficult to install. As the installer has to create a Mysql user and database.

Try http://www.statcounter.com for a starter.

Kind Regards

Peter

23 Jan 12 12:14 pm

Google Analytics Is Great !!

23 Jan 12 1:24 pm

Is that the traffic estimate for exact match phrases? Sometimes there's a huge difference between broad, phrase and exact match. A good way to check is to see the traffic sources under Google Analytics and see which keywords are bringing in traffic. What you would expect is that the top search engine traffic would be coming in through the keywords you mentioned you are ranking highly for. From there you can see the exact number and see whether they tally with your estimates.

The other thing is that you should be using something like Traffic Travis to check your rank because just typing it in your browser will probably lead to skewed results.

Hope that helps,
Joshua

23 Jan 12 7:19 pm

Hi,

You are #1 for wow strategy guide, however, exact match is only 390 per month. The good thing about this keyword is that anyone searching for it is highly targeted. As far as what analytics to use, use Google and read about the difference between pageviews and visitors. 1 visitor can have several pageviews.

I don't remember if Mark said to have over 1,000 a month for exact or broad match.

29 Jan 12 1:05 pm

Thank you esolutions & Joshua.

This makes sense that I am only getting 30 or so visits.

Going by the other estimate of 300 visits per day would mean that I was only converting 1 sale per about 9000 visits which is terrible. I was only converting about 1 sale per month which actually is 1 sale per 1000 or so which is still not all that good but it makes more sense.

Sales are not as good as you might think Joshua, but just last weekend (1/21/12) I re-wrote some of my content on my home page that seemed to me to be too much like a sales page and changed some other basic things and it seems to have helped.

I made 2 sales this week for a total of $45.19. Hopefully these simple changes will help to keep the sales comming.

Thanks so much for your replies.
Never Give Up!!!
Paul

01 Feb 12 1:05 am

Whenever you are looking at keywords, you should always look at exact search counts. Broad match results are always misleading and are often off by thousands. with broad match, they are looking at anything remotely relevant.

For example, with wow strategy guide, broadmatch could be showing results for searches for wow, wow strategy, strategy guide, wow guide, or any other combination that contains one or more of those words, wildly inflating how many searches you would actually show up for.

exact match always looks at the exact phrase you put in, and nothing else, so it would be much more accurate.

Also, just because you get rankings, don't assume people will click your link. this is where you need to look at your meta title and descriptions. these need to be compelling to get the clicks

Once you get them on your page, you need to see how you are impacting potential customers. often, just because you get the traffic doesn't mean you can convert them into customers, especially if they don't know who you are yet.

One thing to look really closely at with your content on your site is how much of an emotional impact are you having? Remember, people make buying decisions emotionally and rationalize them logically, so if you want to convince people to buy you need to identify to the emotional keys that signal that someone wants to buy, and show how the product you are offering will help them meet these emotional needs.