Comments on: More of Page Views

By: ajblade

ajblade — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:12:10 +0000

Looking at my tracking, I’m noticing visitors are reading an article that interests them and then they flee. Some move on to other posts, but by and large they move on. Might have to give the “related posts” plugin a try.

Any suggestions on the best Wordpress plugin to use?

One thing I’m glad to see is that visitors are staying on my blog for quite awhile. Some must be falling alseep or leaving their computers on because my stats show visitors staying on for over 20 hours!

Very strange indeed.

ajblade

By: indian student

indian student — Mon, 28 May 2007 06:45:16 +0000

I realize that I ought to be more helpful my readers/visitors too by going beyond giving them the links to categories.

By: Nathan Hughes

Nathan Hughes — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:13:28 +0000

Brad: Thanks for the “Related Posts” idea. I love it! I’m going to implement it immediately (or as soon as Typepad comes back up….)

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blogHelper » Shameless Promotion 101 — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:27:19 +0000

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By: Clair

Clair — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:51:55 +0000

Some of the comments have mentioned different considerations and factors. Hmmm. Maybe it really all depends on those different goals. In any case, I do see the need to give out information as people need it and I realize that I ought to be more helpful my readers/visitors too by going beyond giving them the links to categories. This might mean a major overhaul in the layout though.

By: Alexander Wunderlich

Alexander Wunderlich — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:27:39 +0000

95% of all my articles have a small teaser, and a link to read the rest. My blog is 2 months old and my pageviews vs unique visitors is about 13:1 (pw:uv).

I’ve always have questioned the effectiveness of the RSS feeds, can anyone tell me if they’ve apreciated an increase in readership because of their RSS subscriptions.

Alexander Wunderlich
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By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:30:28 +0000

Any suggestions on the best Wordpress plugin to use?

Very strange indeed.

-Terry

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:52:49 +0000

I’m getting “shaky” without my Darren-fix! :-) I just hope all is well with him and his family.

By: One Stop Under

One Stop Under — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:29:56 +0000

No updates for a day? Darren, did you have a baby or something?!

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:48:16 +0000

I get a lot more page views since I implemented a “Related Posts:” menu at the bottom of each post. I do it manually, so I look back at past posts and find ones that are similar in topic to what I’m writing about.

Then, using Google Analytics, I can see which posts are getting clicked on the most. This will come in handy when I eventually create a “Best Of” list, because I’ll already have the numbers for each post.

Also, since starting my “Related Posts:” menu, I noticed the average time readers spend on my blog is going up as well. So it’s been good all around!

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:18:25 +0000

I’m sitting at 2.11 page views per visitor according to AWstats. Honestly, I’m happy with anything over 1:1, but perhaps that’s just me.

By: A.B. Dada

A.B. Dada — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:19:58 +0000

I’ve gotten a pretty good page view ratio to uniques (up to 8 to 1 on some days) by combining a few different aspects into my blogs.

1. I united all my blogs into a blog network.
2. I create 3 1-2 word phrases for each blog entry and I list those word phrases in a spreadsheet with a link to the blog.
3. When I write other blogs, if I see a place for any of the 1-2 word phrases, I’ll hotlink those phrases to my other blogs (increasing readership).
4. I nuked comments and instead combined all my blogs into a single forum with multiple forum categories. This gives readers the chance to jump around (and they do jump around) between my various other blogs and posts.

By: Jee

Jee — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:58:46 +0000

I guess the page/visitor standard highly depends on the topic of content with the blog. My personal blog is consistent for 3-4 pageview per visitor while another pro-blog is getting around 7 pageview per visitor.

I guess my pageview ratio is not bad at all huh? I’ve done nothing much special to increase the ratio, the only thing I did is perhaps the installation of ‘related post’ plugin for WP some mths ago, which did provide a significant increase in pageviews.

By: eSearing

eSearing — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:56:50 +0000

We added a “random Posts” section to the top of our blog so readers might be enticed to read other articles. It seems to get us a couple more clicks for those that visit more than 1-2 pages. Below the random posts are links to pages we want them to visit blended in.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:46:52 +0000

I think that the ratio between unique visitors and returning visitors would be important if you want to assess the readership of your site.

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:30:46 +0000

Leo –

Great question. I’ve been tracking page views for the last 6 months on my blog, and the number fluctuates. Usually between 2 and 3. I think 4 is a relatively high number from what I’ve read over the last year. Part of it depends on your goals for the blog – are you trying to build a community? Do you regularly write posts that are related (and interlinked?)

I’d also like to hear Darren’s and others’ thoughts on this.

For our blog, we have full posts in RSS and email – because we want long term subscribers to be able to read as conveniently as possible, and also to forward content around and grow virally. We have excerpts on our archive and index pages, partly because our posts are very long (page load times and continuity of thought), and partly to increase page views.

By: Affiliate Moneymaking

Affiliate Moneymaking — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:16:59 +0000

I think it all depends on your ultimate purpose for your blog. If you are blogging to get money from adsense, then I don’t think it matters if your pageviews are low, as long as your ads are being clicked.

If you are most concerned with your visitors’ experience, then again, I don’t think pageviews are that important, as long as your visitors are getting what they want.

By: leo

leo — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:43:51 +0000

Hi Darren,

What is the suggested ratio of unique hits vs pageviews that you can consider the site is doing good? I’m a new blogger and my blog is only 3 months old. My site’s unique hits(20k) vs pageviews(84k) ratio is 1:4 (sitemeter.com). Is this good or bad? Btw, I’m from Philippines.

- Leo

By: Tinus

Tinus — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:17:14 +0000

Want more pageviews? Use hemmingway as a template. For wordpress that is..

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:37:55 +0000

I’m always back and forth on forcing people to click more and more to get to where they’re going. I’ve got my RSS set up as a snippet right now, and I also cut long posts on the main index page… but I always wonder if viewers are bothered by these things.

What do people thing? Personally, if I want to read something, a click just doesn’t matter to me… I’ll click it (did so with this from Bloglines). Are people so finicky and (alright, I’ll say it) lazy that they’d actually just dump reading something they liked because they’d have to click one more link?

Anyone have deeper opinions about this? I’m too niubi to give much input.