Goals D-Day

In 1 hour and 45 minutes, I will have completed my goals challenge that I set out 2 months ago. My goal was lofty, and because of that I failed. But it was a great learning experience and what I accomplished I am happy with. Here is a brief overview of the results:

Pageview Goals:
By August 11th: 10,000 Pageviews
Current Pageviews: 5,975
% of Goal Reached: 59.75%
Status: Failed

That should give you a decent run down. In two months I was to gain 10,000 pageviews across all of my blogs and articles. I reached roughly 60% of that goal. My biggest obstacles were getting out of the Google Sandbox, getting decent links, and the hardest of all, balancing my regular everyday life while generating enough content.

I could have done better with generating content but I became lax as everyday life caught up with me. I've learned how to use many great tools, and I've also learned how to better use Google Analytics. I've thought of many great things and I hope that this is just the beginning of a very successful webmastering career. I would like to thank anyone who followed a long and invite you to continue reading. And feel free to comment as well! It gets lonely without comments!

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Traffic Update: Google Is Cranking

The page view count is up 22.6% which is surprisingly consistent. It exceeded all expectations that traffic could maintain a 20%+ growth. While this growth is nice to see it is beginning to look like the 10,000 page view goal may have been too lofty. Either way, we will continue forward and try our hardest to reach this goal. The biggest mover and shaker has been Google. Google has provided a ton of traffic in the last two weeks and has exceeded all of our other traffic sources.

Twitter will get an honorable mention as Twitter has provided very consistent traffic (not large amounts but a consistent small amount). This has helped to keep a steady pace. We have collaborated with a great online tool to help feed all of our new posts directly to Twitter in an automated fashion. I'll write another post about that entirely! Hubpages has been very good to us. Our articles have been performing well and are maintaining very steady traffic.

Our eHow articles are picking up in traffic, but are still very modest in the amounts they receive. Unfortunately, eHow doesn't offer very much in the way of reporting so pulling useful data is still basically impossible. The various blogs are doing well, they are still inconsistent, but this is most likely due to a lack of content (as they are basically new blogs) and they probably are not very high in the search results. This will hopefully remedy in time, but we won't hold our breath.

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Traffic Report Update For Goals:

The numbers are looking a little more promising. This week we've experienced a nearly 22% increase in traffic which is very nice. This is due in part to a more steady flow of traffic from Google and Yahoo. I thought Bing was going to be a lot more friendly but it has run dry for us for the past week or so.

The Hubpage articles have been receiving a large amount of traffic lately. Much of the new traffic is attributed to Google which has caught up with referrals from the Hubpages community itself! This was very surprising as we expected the most traffic to come from Hubpages. Yahoo has played a slight role in the Hubpage traffic, but surprisingly Ask.com popped up as well. We've never really used that search engine, but out of gratitude for the traffic we may need to start.

Across our Various Blogs Special Her has gotten the second largest % increase in traffic, while U.S. Elephant got the highest percentage increase in the last week. We've refocused our writing for Debris Central as it began to deviate. It has now been refocused to specifically provide survival information and tips. For this blog we are trying to provide more detailed information that will hopefully give good tips to new webmasters, and bloggers alike. That's all for today.

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Busy, Busy, Busy

I've updated the Goals section today and must say it's quite disappointing. I've seen a steep drop off in traffic, but this is mainly due to my lack of new content I imagine. My biggest issue is that I spend a lot of time trying to develop good, thorough content which lends me to being inconsistent with the amount I crank out each week. Either way, any increase is better than no increase. Here is some of the new content I've put out in the last two or three weeks:

• Choosing The Right Knife


• Gift Ideas For The Fishing Father


• The Wolfram Alpha Search Engine


• Identifying US Silver Coins


• How To Make Yourself Disappear


• Avoid Pay Day Loans and Cash Advances


• Is Fish Considered Meat?

As you can see I write about many different topics that come to mind. Many of these fall in line with some of my other blogs content. I will continue writing more but I tend to refuse to compromise my quality so I can crank out quantity. Hopefully the search engines will reward me in the future with great ranks!

-Debris

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The Search Engines Are Cooking!

Thanks to Google.com, Yahoo.com, and Retrevo.com I've seen some very decent traffic movements over the last week. I doubt to see a 34% increase every 7 days, but it's quite welcome if they want to keep sending those to me! I've published quite a few new articles and a couple of new blog updates (Although I should be doing more!). Work and school have been bearing down on me which has slowed my content production. I'll keep you posted on how things are looking over the next couple of weeks. August 11th is approaching fast it seems.

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Someone turned off my traffic tap

So traffic has staggered greatly in the past two days. I've only seen a 5.3% pageview increase, I'm hoping this is just due to the weekend slowing things down. I've been working with the Bing.com search engine lately and trying to get things cooking over there. My page ranks are low because they are so new, but I should hopefully see some better rankings coming along soon. It could be worse, I could have no rank at all! I still haven't gotten around to working with the yahoo search engine, and Google isn't liking my sitemap, despite the fact that they are the ones who generated it! That's been my whole weekend basically. Have a great day.

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Traffic Could Be Better

My standing on June 11th was a total of 1340 pageviews, I'm now at 1715. This represents a 28% increase in just two days. I imagine that this percentage will continue to decline as I don't imagine these pageviews spiking until the search engines pick up the sites and articles. I've been trying to work with the new Bing search engine, so I'll keep you posted on how that goes as well. One of these days I'll start working with the yahoo search engine as well. In all of my experience as a webmaster though, I have to say that I believe the Google Sandbox exists!

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I Have Goals:

If you notice to the right, I have a small section about goals. One thing I've learned along the way is to set goals for yourself. The goal I've set is slightly lofty in that I still need to generate roughly 8,500 page views in the next two months. I will not be using any artificial means like traffic exchanges (see my article below.). I'll keep you updated with my progress on these goals. In case you are wondering the page views that I'm counting are from:

Hubpage Articles
eHow Articles
Debris Central Blog
U.S. Elephant Blog
Special Her Blog
I Am Debris

It should be interesting to see if I can generate good enough content that will gain 8500 page views in two months. Wish me luck!

-Debris

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