Comments on: 9 Ways to Gauge Your Visitors’ Experience

By: SEOBLOG

SEOBLOG — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:23:57 +0000

Yep, all great ways to check this…I use google analytics to check mine. Sometimes those bounce rates can be discouraging but if you create your site/blog with passion I think the people you are targeting will like/love it.

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By: turtie

turtie — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:39:36 +0000

very informative posts. I’ve been blogging for a couple of months now, but I didn’t really know what all these terms meant. Good job explaining them and keeping it simple so that its easy to understand. What kind of bounce rates/ pages per visit/ and other stats do you get here at vandelay?

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By: Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:17:06 +0000

Hi Justin,
I definitely recommend WordPress over Blogger. I have very limited experience with Blogger, but I don’t see any reason to choose it over WP. I use Google Analytics to track stats and that’s about it. I use FeedBurner for the RSS feed stats, but they really don’t provide that much.

By: Justin Dupre

Justin Dupre — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:13:13 +0000

Interesting write up as always.

I’m not so sure that time will always be correct, as you said. Unless your average stays very short. I’m having that problem. I get a good amount of visitors daily now, but my average stays below 1 minute. I really have to find something that will keep them connected.

I think my problem is the layout. (Blogger is so limited. Finally getting hosting so I hope to turn that around with wordpress.)

What other sites to you recommend to track stats?

Justin

By: Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:54:48 +0000

Jason,
I think you do a good job of engaging the reader in your blog posts. You have a nice style of writing. To answer your question, I like excerpts on the front page, not becaue of increasing page views, but mainly because I think it’s easier for the reader. When I’m visiting a blog I like to be able to quickly see what posts are there. I don’t use the more tag, I set it to show excerpts and my RSS feed is full. I’m not a fan of partial feeds.

Karen,
You have a good point about polls and surveys. I certainly don’t think they’re 100% accurate, but at least they give you some type of feedback. Thanks for the stumble.

Suffian,
I do similar things when I’m surfing. I try not to stop and read an article when I don’t have time, so I use bookmarks as well.