Saturday, May 03, 2008

Referring Sites


Like the posting from March 14 about Backlinks, here is another view. Referring sites bring a lot of traffic to interfacebus. The graphic is Referring sites by month, averaging over 10,000 visits per month [13,174 visits last month]. So every month the site gets an automatic 10,000 visits generating 20,000 page views per month.

Guess the previous post was more geared to incoming back-links from my own sites, while this shows all websites.

The bounce rate, or chance a person only visits one page is 68.04%. The average bounce rate seems ok, as the links are coming in to a specific page. The percentage of new visitors is 79.69%, meaning all those links keep bringing in new people, or people that have never used the site before. When New vs. Returning visitors is charted I find 24,000 returning visitors @ 4/1/06, and up to 49,000 @ 4/30/08. But because the site is always growing New visitors are also increasing from 100,000 to about 160,000 over the same time period.

2 comments:

Leroy said...

10/01/09 Update: Referring sites sent in 521,967 visits via 10,371 sources from 4/1/06 to 10/30/09.

Currently running about about 16,000 per month, up from 11,000 a month shown in the posting.

Incoming hits just from image searches have increased 3 fold.

Leroy said...

7/27/11
Just so every one knows, when you run the link: command in Google, that command does not show all the possible back-links to a web site. In fact the command may not even show you the best or most highly ranked web sites. Google does this so any web site can not go around and try to get backlinks from every site pointing to a particular website. So there is no real way to discover back links to a site. I understand that Yahoo explorer which also does the same type of thing is being retired soon, so that will no longer be an option.

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