{"id":948,"date":"2010-02-12T20:25:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T10:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2010-02-16T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T08:58:16","slug":"7-days-traffic-building-exercise-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2010\/02\/12\/7-days-traffic-building-exercise-review\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Days Traffic Building Exercise – Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

So our 7 Days Traffic Building Exercise<\/a> has been completed successfully. And now, it's time to review our statistics and find out how we did. <\/p>\n

How we did<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nAs you can see in the graph above, the overview traffic for February 4, 2010 - February 10, 2010 (Current) and January 21, 2010 - January 27, 2010 (Previous)* are:<\/p>\n

Visits<\/strong>
\nCurrent: 4,115
\nPrevious: 3,910
\nDifference: +5.24%<\/p>\n

Pageviews<\/strong>
\nCurrent: 5,259
\nPrevious: 4,646
\nDifference: +13.19%<\/p>\n

Pages\/Visit<\/strong>
\nCurrent: 1.28
\nPrevious: 1.19
\nDifference: +7.56%<\/p>\n

Referring sites<\/strong>
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\nAs you can see in the graph, previously, 7.88% of total traffic came from referring sites. And it increased by more than 50% during our exercise period making the total percentage of traffic coming from referring sites to 12.30%. If we look at the graph a bit more closely, we can see that on Feb 8 (Day 5), there was a massive increase. While we couldn't say that all of this is the result of the exercise we did on Day 5, which is creating a round-up link post<\/a> and linking to relevant blogs in the industry, the exercise did have some impact on it because on the next day (Day 6), the traffic decreased a little. If it was the result of all the exercises we did from Day 1 to Day 5, the traffic would have stayed more or less the same on the next day. <\/p>\n

Visits \/ Visits per day<\/strong>
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\nWe have a slight increase in our overall visits \/ visits per day during the week of traffic building exercise. Although it didn't meet our goal which was to get a 10% traffic increase, we are pretty happy with the result (5.24% increase) given that the exercise was carried out in just 7 days. <\/p>\n

What we learned<\/strong><\/p>\n

Five key lessons that we have learnt from the exercise are: <\/p>\n