The previous post is the 300th post. (This blog actually contains 665 posts, but 365 posts of them are imported from my old blogs) I just found out when I tried to find this blogs first post, I need to find that post because its been almost a year, well in ~40 days.
Is 300 special? Well, not really, but in Blogger Dashboard, 300 is the maximum of the number of posts in one page. Thats still not the real reason why I wanted to post.
Since 2/11, I started to have very strong feeling about blogging. Actually, its way more back than that date, probably last September or even from the beginning. I questioned myself why? Why what? I cant even ask with a complete question. Even I had talked about what I wanted to blog in this blog or in my old blogs, but I now see the doubts in me.
I had been reading and analyzing some numbers.
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1 Numbers
When I first looked into Google Analytics report, I was aware that most of visitors came via search engines. I wished more people would come from feed or direct or referral. Then, I realized that of course that majority would come from search engine and it actually is a good thing. The reason is a simple, this is a blog. It means you need to have a new content so subscribers will come via feed. If you dont post new stuff, eventually the number of visitors via feed will go down close to zero.
Anyway, I started to focus on returning visitors:
Dimensions: year,week,visitorType,medium Group by : year,week Metrics : visitors Filters : visitorType==Returning Visitor Sort : None Date: 2010-08-29 -> 2011-02-26 Limit : 0 81.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010 36 tttttttRRRReeeee 2010 37 tRRRee 2010 38 tttttttuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeee 2010 39 ttttttttttRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeee 2010 40 ttttttttttuuRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeee 2010 41 ttttttttttttttuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2010 42 tttttttttuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2010 43 tttttttttRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2010 44 ttttttttttttttRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2010 45 ttttttttttuuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2010 46 tttttttttttuuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2010 47 ttttttttttuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2010 48 tttttttttttttuuuuRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2010 49 ttttttttttttttttttttttttuRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeee 2010 50 ttttttttttuuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeee 2010 51 ttttttttttuRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeee 2010 52 tttttttttttuuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeee 2010 53 tttttuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeee 2011 01 tttRRRRRee 2011 02 tttttttttuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2011 03 tttttttttttuuuuuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeee 2011 04 ttttttttttttttttttuuuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2011 05 ttttttttttttttttttuuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeee 2011 06 tttttttttttuuuuuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeee 2011 07 ttttttttttttttttuuuuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeee 2011 08 tttttttttttttttuuuuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2011 09 tttttttttttuRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeee -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total: 1433.0 81.0 Legend: R Returning Visitor organic, e Returning Visitor referral, t Returning Visitor (none), u Returning Visitor feed
And the ratio of New vs. Returning
Dimensions: year,visitorType Group by : year Metrics : visitors Filters : None Sort : None Date: 2010-08-29 -> 2011-02-26 Limit : 0 7822.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010 NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNRRRRRR 2011 NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNRRRR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total: 12642.0 7822.0 Legend: N New Visitor, R Returning Visitor
Trying to see something from numbers:
Date : 2010-08-29 -> 2011-02-26
Filter: None
Sort : None
Limit : 0
year visitorType medium | visits pageviews visitors
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2010 New Visitor (none) | 1386.000 1808.000 1378.000
2010 New Visitor feed | 46.000 77.000 48.000
2010 New Visitor organic | 3669.000 4620.000 3678.000
2010 New Visitor referral | 2077.000 2683.000 2076.000
2010 Returning Visitor (none) | 294.000 487.000 193.000
2010 Returning Visitor feed | 82.000 148.000 18.000
2010 Returning Visitor organic | 488.000 821.000 260.000
2010 Returning Visitor referral | 696.000 1213.000 205.000
2011 New Visitor (none) | 696.000 1016.000 695.000
2011 New Visitor feed | 33.000 73.000 34.000
2011 New Visitor organic | 3024.000 3905.000 3030.000
2011 New Visitor referral | 634.000 941.000 634.000
2011 Returning Visitor (none) | 231.000 383.000 95.000
2011 Returning Visitor feed | 100.000 187.000 20.000
2011 Returning Visitor organic | 528.000 842.000 249.000
2011 Returning Visitor referral | 291.000 751.000 90.000
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| 14275.000 19955.000 12703.000
I tried hard to read those numbers and wrote some queries which might shed some light. The problem is I dont really know what I want to see.
2 No numbers
Personal blog. Thats a keyword. Its personal and if I try to use some numbers to explain or to do whatsoever action, then its very pathetic that I need to go to that step.
While in the process of unknown, I thought maybe I should just stop. Its either bad or good, its a stage. Why should I continue if I dont really understand why I am doing? Why not stop?
But stop what?
I told myself, wait until February ends. I did and its March.
I told myself, dont post until I have a conclusion. I still posted and I probably posted around 20 posts.
Trying to make a sense out of something, but that is just chaotic.
Midway of what?
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