Sunday, November 05, 2006

traffic

We had a very busy week (they all are) and in the past few days have been seeing some good results to some of our articles. A key factor in the fast pace growth in our traffic has been better placement on Goolge news. Over the past two days Ilana’s article about Federer withdrawing from the Paris tournament was the number one result under Roger Federer in Google News. The interesting fact was that most of the new traffic we got was not directly from Google but rather from people reading the article and forwarding the link to other friends or posting it in other sites. I thought it was a very good article and am glad it generated so much interest.

Esnip which is an Israeli web 2.0 company run by a friend recently announced a round of venture funding. Yael their CEO is one of the most savvy CEO’s out there and I wish them best of luck in their continued growth.

One more thought about traffic, we all use Alexa to gauge the level of traffic for our websites, and many people have written about how inaccurate it is. The day we went live we got covered by Techcrunch and hit an Alexa ranking of 8,700. Are daily traffic is three times the amount we got from the TechCruch article yet our daily Alexa ranking is at around 40,000. I guess alexa have some work to do in figuring out their ranking system.

3 comments:

The Natural said...

Hi Ze'ev,

Greetings from the UK.

I received an email from Michelle, regarding my blog and the possibility of submitting some articles to Sportingo.

This, being a site previously unknown to me ( yet another gap in my education), curiosity immediately demanded that I investigate, which is how I discovered your personal blog.

With regard to the "surfing" stats, it is a common misconception that traffic to sports related sites, should be greater at weekends.

As we both know this is untrue. With so many of us chained to computer screens throughout the working day, it is obvious that we are going to venture to internet sites that interest us most, during "down" or quiet periods.

Given that pure gambling and/or pornography sites are likely to be frowned upon, or off limits, Sports would seem to be the logical choice.

At weekends, family commitments,which are/should be a priority for many, aside, the real sports freak will be attending, playing, or more likely viewing his chosen event, as opposed to reading about it.

Plenty of time for that during office hours.

My own findings tally with yours, my blog receives half as many hits on weekends. These also tend to be earlier in the day than for weekdays, when some 80% of hits are between 15.00-19.00 cet.

Probably when workers are tiring and in need of stimulation, wasn't it Churchill who said, no one ever had a good idea after lunch ?

These "surfing" statistics interest me greatly and with much bigger resources at your disposal, I await with interest any further findings that you wish to share.

Good luck with the venture.

Kind Regards,
Keith

www.ubet2win.blogspot.com

The Natural said...

Hi Ze'ev,

Greetings from the UK.

I received an email from Michelle regarding my blog and the possibility of submitting some articles to Sportigo.

This was a site previously unknown to me ( yet another gap in my education), curiosity immediately demanded that i investigate, which is how I discovered your personal blog.

With regard to the "surfing" stats, it is a common misconception that traffic to sports related sites is greater at weekends. We both know this to be untrue.

With most of us chained to computer screens for much, if not all, of the working day, it is fair to assume that we are going to venture to internet sites of interest during quiet, or "down" periods.

Given that pure gambling and/or pornography sites are likely to be frowned upon, or off limits,Sports would seem the logical choice.

At weekends, family obligations aside,the real sports enthusiast will be attending, playing, or more likely viewing his chosen event, as opposed to reading about it.

Plenty of time for that during office hours.

My own findings tally with yours, my blog receives half as many hits on Saturday and Sunday. These also tend to be earlier in the day than for weekday's, when some 80% are received between 14.00-19.00 cet.

Or when the workforce is tiring or in need of some outside stimulation. I think it was Churchill who said, no good idea ever came after lunch, or words to that effect.

These "surfing" stats interest me greatly and with better resources at your disposal, I await any further findings you may wish to share.

Good luck with your venture.

Kind Regards,
Keith

www.ubet2win.blogspot.com

Ze'ev said...

Hi Keith,

thanks for your comment. I will keep updating my blog with more traffic data as we find more surfing patterns.

Best,

Ze'ev