Organic traffic update
It's been awhile since I posted about how my organic traffic is going - the last time being in February (see https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/arpl/blog/organic-...). There hasn't been much to say as the traffic has stayed at that level since then, averaging around 150/hits a day.
This morning I got a surprise - a new peak of 352 organic visitors:
This is interesting as it's been roughly one year since I launched the site. Each time a peak has indicated a new level of traffic - this time it's probably ~250/day.
I don't post much but obviously it is important to create good, long content with smart keyword research involved.
And while the traffic is good, the downside is that my bounce rate has skyrocketed from 15% to 70%. This could be due to the change in design. I went from one that had a nice sidebar with footer widgets to to the default WordPress theme due to some theme weirdness (takeaway: avoid Woo Themes like the plague). So we may have some very strong evidence about how to keep someone on a site a little longer.
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Great job Arp. I think the bounce rate is nothing more than an analytics error. My bounce rate used to be at 10% consistently and the same thing happened. It skyrocketed to 75% which I think was from changing my theme. Traffic is still consistently going up though. Keep blogging man!
Yeah, I definitely think it's the theme. WP's default theme is really made for focusing on posts and not drawing folks further into the site. The traffic itself I'm very happy about :)
What is your website about because you have some visitors.If I had that many people viewing my pages I would be a happy bunny.
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I need to put the traffic to better use. The site's in an in-between phase since I had to change the theme (the old one broke somehow and I didn't want to fix it). I'm going to be changing the domain to www.workingfromanywhere.rocks and I have a new design in mind.
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Congrats on traffic increase
Thanks!