I thought I'd give a few stats for the blog I used as an example in my post How To Get Search Engine Referrals With a New Blog.
The blog in question, about Helen Flanagan, has been now running for one month.
I had set myself a target of getting 1500 unique visitors in the first 31 days, which I thought realistic. The blog did better than this and had 2751 unique visitors and 5559 with reloads included.
Of the 2751 uniques 1651 were referred from search engines, see figures below.
I'm quite happy with this. The only thing that bothers me slightly is that, up until four days ago, I was getting most referrals from the keywords 'Helen Flanagan' but these have dropped off considerably over the last few days.
Fortunately I made sure that, when writing posts, I had used other keywords as well - these were long tail and therefore still brought in referrals.
The problem can be that if you rely heavily on just one or two keywords search engine hits can dry up. For some reason they may not like, for want of a better word, your blog any more or alter their algorithm.
As I see it a blog needs a good range of keywords to play safe. The likes of Google wealds a lot of power and strange things can happen that can make search engine referrals dry up.
This happened with one of the blogs I had 'wound up and let go'. For ages the blog was always fourth or fifth on the first page of the Google results. Suddenly, overnight, it disappeared from view on all of the first ten pages so the referrals for my main keywords dried up.
I've now got that blog back on track but only with the help of Google Images which has sent me over 36,000 unique visitors.
This is what I like about blogging, if you experiment and try different things, it becomes virtually a 'teach yourself' course. You can't beat personal experience.
Sometimes things don't work out as expected but on other occasions the unexpected, in a good way, can happen.
Good luck,
Mike.
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