Google drives me traffic, for you too?

When you blog there’s most likely the intention to be read, but people should be able to find you before that can happen. Once you start thinking about driving people to your site you can hope other bloggers link to you, people come in through your comments on other blogs or they come in [...]

When you blog there’s most likely the intention to be read, but people should be able to find you before that can happen. Once you start thinking about driving people to your site you can hope other bloggers link to you, people come in through your comments on other blogs or they come in through other systems such as search engines.

I said hope since what counts for me probably counts for a lot of us, I’m not that experienced in SEO nor am I a great marketer. The occasional entry I read on the net about SEO is as far as I get and if marketing sites or anything for that matter was within my interest I doubt I’d have started my study in medicine.

Does my hoping pay off? It’s either that or I’m doing something right without even realizing it. But what it comes down to is that I’m getting traffic, from various different sources even so I’m showing up on the web. Search engines play quite an important role in the traffic I receive, the three major search engines taken together give me around 100 unique visitors on a daily basis.

Google definitely sends through the most, with about 65 people a day on average this month excluding those through Google image search it is a good source for those additionally incoming people. If I’d take Google image search along the figure would actually rise to around 140, but I’m not sure on how many of those would actually view anything more than the image they find so I didn’t take them along.

Microsoft’s live search is the second best search engine provider for me, it sends me around 30 incoming readers a day. Although Google doubles that amount easily, it’s still 30 potentially new readers which I have obtained without even knowing how I got them.

The last I’d personally mention as part of the greater 3 is Yahoo, but it disappoints me a bit I must say. I’m not sure whether it’s because of me or something with Yahoo but one day it used to be the biggest source of traffic through search engines sending me like a thousand additional readers a month. Currently this figure has decreased to no more than a measly 10 a day, I’m baffled.

How do I get my traffic from Google and Live search speed up is a hard question even to myself, honestly I’m not really sure. It just happens would be an easy answer but of course that’s not an explanation.

If I take a closer look though at which entries are bringing traffic through Google there’s a couple of things which can be recognized with them all.

• The length of the entries tends to be at least 6~7 paragraphs, now I’m not sure if the length of an entry matters for Google when it comes to getting hits from it but I suppose the longer an entry is the bigger the chance someone might search on some keywords within it.
• The title used for the entry is either an answer to a question or a question which one might type in on Google. I guess this is sort of important, I wouldn’t be surprised that if your title matches the exact search request of someone using the search engine you’d end up high within the results.
• Within the entry there’s just a single subject handled. Does it matter? I haven’t got the slightest clue! But since I started blogging I have entries in which I stuffed a couple of subjects together to just be quickly done with it but I also have written entries which cover just a single subject, those latter tend to drive more incoming traffic.

Is there any factional reason behind those entries bringing in more traffic through the search engines? I guess there probably is, but I’m quite clueless the moment it gets to that.

Whatever it is though, it is still bringing me more and more traffic as my blog ages so I’m happy with it as long as keeps on going well. With the currently above a hundred new visitors a day through the search engines this means I’m getting over 3000 potential readers a month in total thanks to Google and alike, a number which just makes my day since when I started out this blog I didn’t even reach that in total visitors combined.

Now some questions for my readers, since I’m not the only one which has to deal with search engines I’m interested in knowing how things go for you.

• Do the search engines drive you a good source of traffic? If so feel free to share your tips with the rest of us on how you managed to get to that point.
• For those which are more into the entire SEO deal, which factors eventually determine if an entry might have more or less success with getting ranked in the search engines?

Thanks for reading, I would love to hear your input on this matter!