If money
making is the important aim of your blog, then the most important deal that you
might be looking forward to is the traffic to your blog. Traffic is directly
proportional to the money you make using you blog or website. There are
different methods for driving different traffic into your blog/website. One of
this is sharing via social networks or media. For me, social networks are the
highest source of traffic. Then there comes another factor, which is the type
of traffic you want to drive into your blog/website. The traffic can be
from a Specified country or of a
specified age group or gender. So even
if you have high quality articles, if you don’t know how to drive the right
audience to the blog, then you are wasting hell a lot of your time. That is not
the right kind of traffic you want. For example, consider that you have a blog
post about girls’ ornaments. If your traffic driven to the post is of male
gender, then the possibility of the traffic increasing further is going to be
pretty low. So traffic is really important to your blog/ website.
So why would
you want to check your blog traffic every now and then? Well, the first reason
is to know how much money we can make from our blog. Then you might want to
keep track of how your competitors of the same niche are doing at the moment so
that we could make sufficient changes to excel over them. You should never allow
you traffic to go below a consistent rate.
So how can I check
the traffic to a blog/website? Well, there are paid as well as free tools for
performing that task. Personally, I prefer the free tools as a newbie blogger. Free tools are more than enough
for keeping track of most details about
you traffic. Some of the free traffic checking tools are the following
1.Google
Adwords Display planner.
Google Adwords display planner
is a tool used for planning different posts with the keywords associated with
it. It helps in finding each keywords targeted audiences and other details like
the age group and gender the keyword is aimed at. But this can also be used as
a traffic checking tool for your blog/website. Enter the link of your website
in the “what customers are looking for “ field under the get ideas tab in
Display planner. You can then get the traffic
details of your website. I am pretty much sure that these results are very
accurate because, yeah, it is Google’s and they have the best SEO experts with
them.
2.Alexa.com
Yes! It’s the most popular
ranking website now. If you ask someone the ranking of their website, then 99%
of them will be saying the Alexa ranking of their website. So how can you check
the alexa ranking and traffic status of you website/blog? Go to alexa.com and
type in your website name and hit enter. You can view the global Ranking as
well as the ranking in your country. Other details include the bounce rate , page-view
per person and daily time on the site.
It also has detail about the types of traffic like their location,
gender, age, status etc. Thus alexa provides a set of useful information about
your sites. But is Alexa accurate? Are these results correct. As a matter of
fact, it isn’t very accurate. This details are only from users that use the
Alexa toolbar in their browser.Even though it is not fully accurate, you can
predict the traffic to some extent.
3.Compete.com
Compete.com is a US based
company that finds the US traffic of top 100,000 blogs. To use this free tool,
go to compete.com and enter you website link in the search box and tap enter.
You will find the traffic rates of you website with graphs of growth or
decline. But the only problem is that it has details of US visitors only. So
the traffic won’t be very accurate unless you majority traffic is from the US.
4.BuySellAds.com
Buysellads.com is yet another popular website for checking blog
traffic. Since it is an network for selling banners of ads. It can help you to
earn some money too. Since they also want traffic from website/blog, they also
keep track of the traffic. But the
statitics we get from theis work on the condition that the webpage or blog
should have a BSA script in its code. So it should be somewhat accurate with
the figures.
5.QuantCast.com
Quant
cast is another website for tracking your blog traffic. It is also an advertising
company and they doesn’t provide as much accurate results as the Google
Analytics but you can always have a check. If you are starter blogger and your
blog is relatively new, then they won’t show any results and might show
insufficient results. They use their own data source for ranking the blog.
Though it might show much lesser views than what is shown with Google’s tool.
Whichever
ranking or traffic calculating tool you use, you can get the most accurate
results from Google’s analytics tool. If you are newbie blogger like me, you
should always look for your competitors. But don’t waste your time on checking ranks and traffics
alone. Use you time mostly for writing quality articles. Only check rankings
and traffic if you have a lot of extra time. Happy blogging :)
25 comments
Click here for commentsI know of a few of these, but I didn't know you could search your website in the google adwords display. Great tips for everyone here!
ReplyI didn't know about the last two sites. I will be checking them out.
ReplyMichelle F.
I've tried using some the metrics above to check my site. It really helps evaluating traffic.
ReplyThese are great tips! I learned a lot I didn't know and as someone who writes a blog it's important info to have. Thank you so much!
ReplyI've used a couple of these but, I also didn't know you can search through Google Adwords. Very cool! Thanks for the insight. I find that StatCounter is accurate for me and matches my WP.
ReplyThanks for a lot of great information! I think in starting out a blog, like you said, its most important to focus on writing content and promoting yourself! The rest will follow.
ReplyThis is great, I'm going to have to experiment with google adwords, someone told me if you display other ads on your blog, you are not allowed to display google ads, so I'll have to break some of my contracts to get in on this I'm thinking. If its worth it....
ReplyI use alexa and google analytics to measure. They say we are doing great!
ReplyVery helpful! I've just started getting into caring about those numbers aha! <333 Thanks for the information!
ReplyThis was a very helpful article. Thanks for sharing
ReplyYou've got nice tips here. I look up my numbers when I apply for a sponsored post. I have been thinking of getting more involved than that though, to see what readers like via analyzing the numbers, and things like that.
ReplyThese are some really great tips. I am surprised at the people in different countries that read my blog daily.
ReplyThanks for sharing these great tools. I already use google but I should tae a look at the others.
ReplyI only knew about Alexa. I use Google Analytics and Alexa. I'll have to check out those other websites.
ReplyThis is perfect for people who are new and are looking how to check their traffic amount, I'll send them this link for sure.
ReplyI've heard of Alexa, and .Google Adwords Display planner. I use them both on my blog to see where my blog traffic is coming from!
ReplyI love compete and alexa both are amazing! Tired of having problems with a google analytics tho
Replywow. i love this post. it is helpful for me.. next time i'll get info from here
ReplyWow, I had no idea you could check traffic in Google Adwords! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyGreat advice and information for bloggers. I didn't know of these. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyI know about this things but I don't use it as much as I should because blogging should be fun and If i turn it into work it sucks the fun out of it but thats just me,
ReplyI have heard of these sites. They are helpful because they help you to know where your traffic is coming from. Thanks for sharing them with us.
ReplyI didn't know about some of these. I like to keep an eye on my stats.
ReplyThanks for sharing the tips. The only tool I know is Alexa. Even though it's not that accurate, I can still get enough information about my traffic and it's helping me a lot.
ReplyThanks For Your valuable posting, it was very informative. Am working in Erp Software Company In India
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