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2007-04-26, 01:08 PM
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New vs Returning ratio
What do you see as an acceptable ratio of new vs return visitors? I take it this is an important metric in determining how well what you are doing is working in regards to keeping the visitors interest.
After about a week two blogs (each about 1,000 visitors per day) have the following: Blog 1: 16% returning Blog 2: 9% returning What should I realistically be shooting for here? What do you see with yours? Also a side question, using Google Analytics stats, does anyone know how to see stats on average as to how often returning visitors are coming back per day? I want to use this to determine whether an extra update would actually help. Thanks! |
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2007-04-26, 08:09 PM
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I guess it will naturally go up for a time when so new. New stats in:
Blog 1: 21% returning Blog 2: 11% returning Still what is a good target for your average porn blog? Common sense would say around 50%+ I would think? |
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2007-04-26, 09:00 PM
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How do you determine this statistic anyway? I can only presume based on cookies, which are unreliable because of the small number of people who regularly clear their cookies -- and hence seem like a new visitor every time.
Still, I'd like to see this stat for my sites also.
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2007-04-26, 09:48 PM
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The Geo-IP tracking feature is pretty cool as well. I am very happy with their stats being a stat junkie myself.  |
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2007-04-26, 10:15 PM
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Stats junkie here too. But I'm not using Google Analytics coz I'm concerned about giving them too much info on my site. I download my logs daily and run them through a local log analyzer (weblog expert pro).
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2007-04-27, 12:26 AM
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2007-04-27, 12:33 AM
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A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!
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2007-04-27, 12:52 AM
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2007-04-27, 09:41 AM
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No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you
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The Google master plan, okay maybe over the top but food for thought.
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2007-04-27, 11:20 AM
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2007-04-27, 12:19 PM
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Oh no, I'm sweating like Roger Ebert
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Personally, I only pay attention to two stats....cost per click vs sales per click...wait I guess I only pay attention to one stat...profit per click
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2007-04-29, 11:41 PM
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Do you mean click out of your site or into your site? I try to keep track of profit per unique visitor to my sites.
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2007-04-30, 12:24 AM
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Oh no, I'm sweating like Roger Ebert
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I count click in's (or uniques) for most things.
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2007-04-30, 04:21 AM
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Right, it's income in the bank at the end of the day that matters. It is easy to get distracted by other stats but ultimately if they send me big checks that's what pleases.
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[underpants gnomes] 1. Collect traffic 2. ????? 3. Profit [/underpants gnomes] Phase 1. |
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2007-04-30, 10:15 PM
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No it's:
1. Build site 2. ???? 3. Traffic arrives 4. Profit. ;-)
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