Comments on: Where Did You Come From, Where Did You Go :: December 2008 http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/ money, motorcycles and cars (with a little bit of WordPress Ninja skills too) Wed, 23 May 2012 11:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andrea http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-16123 Andrea Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:06:25 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/?p=636#comment-16123 May the best (wo)man win! lol May the best (wo)man win! lol

]]> By: Andrea http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-16068 Andrea Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:37:49 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/?p=636#comment-16068 StumbleUpon is the evil of eeeeevil. I have lost MANY work hours to SU. See? Toldya Nick. StumbleUpon is the evil of eeeeevil. I have lost MANY work hours to SU. See? Toldya Nick.

]]> By: Nick@romandock dot com http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-16030 Nick@romandock dot com Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:16:51 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/?p=636#comment-16030 Wow, congrats on the success. I find the turnover in the most read posts to be quite impressive. It was beginning to feel a bit stale with the same posts making the list month after month. However, I would have expected the Canadian Club post to be closer to the top of the list! <abbr><em>Nicks last blog post..<a href="http://www.romandock.com/i-found-two-more-feeds-to-subscribe-to/" rel="nofollow">I Found Two More Feeds To Subscribe To</a></abbr></em> Wow, congrats on the success. I find the turnover in the most read posts to be quite impressive. It was beginning to feel a bit stale with the same posts making the list month after month. However, I would have expected the Canadian Club post to be closer to the top of the list!

Nicks last blog post..I Found Two More Feeds To Subscribe To

]]> By: Nick@romandock dot com http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-16029 Nick@romandock dot com Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:13:42 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/?p=636#comment-16029 Awww snap! Guess I'll have to try harder next month! <abbr><em>Nicks last blog post..<a href="http://www.romandock.com/i-found-two-more-feeds-to-subscribe-to/" rel="nofollow">I Found Two More Feeds To Subscribe To</a></abbr></em> Awww snap! Guess I’ll have to try harder next month!

Nicks last blog post..I Found Two More Feeds To Subscribe To

]]> By: mmo http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-16015 mmo Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:42:25 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/?p=636#comment-16015 kudos to blog blazers and growmap. Found this blog awhile back..not sure where I came from hehe. kudos to blog blazers and growmap. Found this blog awhile back..not sure where I came from hehe.

]]> By: Neil@PS3 http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-16009 Neil@PS3 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:37:04 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/?p=636#comment-16009 No worries derek, just let me know when you want to post and I can give you an author log in to the site if you wish so you can make your post. No worries derek, just let me know when you want to post and I can give you an author log in to the site if you wish so you can make your post.

]]> By: Steve@Trade Show Guru http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-16002 Steve@Trade Show Guru Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:46:27 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/?p=636#comment-16002 hey Derek, Thanks for the breakdown on your numbers. Interesting that search and referrals are evenly split. I guess that means you're doing good at both. :) And you confirmed what I expected about Google. I'm a bit surprised about google images. I guess it's getting bigger than I was aware of, and one should probably be sure to use at least one image per post and include alt text for the image, though I don't see an image on this post... ;) ~ Steve, aka the trade show guru <abbr><em>Steves last blog post..<a href="http://www.trade-show-guru.com/2008/12/chainsaw-powered-b29/" rel="nofollow">Chainsaw Powered B29 Model Airplane Video</a></abbr></em> hey Derek,
Thanks for the breakdown on your numbers. Interesting that search and referrals are evenly split. I guess that means you’re doing good at both. :) And you confirmed what I expected about Google. I’m a bit surprised about google images. I guess it’s getting bigger than I was aware of, and one should probably be sure to use at least one image per post and include alt text for the image, though I don’t see an image on this post… ;)
~ Steve, aka the trade show guru

Steves last blog post..Chainsaw Powered B29 Model Airplane Video

]]> By: What Sends More Traffic? Search Engines, Blogs, or Social Networking Sites? | GROWMAP.COM http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-15998 What Sends More Traffic? Search Engines, Blogs, or Social Networking Sites? | GROWMAP.COM Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:14:02 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/?p=636#comment-15998 [...] was just about to dig back into Google Analytics when I saw that Derek had posted his Top Ten Referring Blogs.  While his blog is older and more established than this one, many will be surprised to see [...]

]]> By: derek http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-15996 derek Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:05:15 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/?p=636#comment-15996 For the month of December, 42% of my traffic came from search engines and 43% came from referring sites. The remainder came from direct traffic. Of the search engine traffic, Google was by far the leader with nearly 80% of the traffic. Yahoo was second with roughly 13% and then there were a handful making up the rest, led by Baidu, MSN, and AOL. With the referring sites, most of the traffic actually comes from sources such as StumbleUpon, twitter, Google images, and FriendFeed. For purposes of this post, I only list blogs and smaller sites. As an estimate, the referring sites listed above accounted for roughly 10% of my overall traffic. For the month of December, 42% of my traffic came from search engines and 43% came from referring sites. The remainder came from direct traffic.

Of the search engine traffic, Google was by far the leader with nearly 80% of the traffic. Yahoo was second with roughly 13% and then there were a handful making up the rest, led by Baidu, MSN, and AOL.

With the referring sites, most of the traffic actually comes from sources such as StumbleUpon, twitter, Google images, and FriendFeed. For purposes of this post, I only list blogs and smaller sites. As an estimate, the referring sites listed above accounted for roughly 10% of my overall traffic.

]]> By: derek http://dereksemmler.com/2008/12/29/where-did-you-come-from-where-did-you-go-december-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-15995 derek Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:58:07 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/?p=636#comment-15995 It is funny but that post had a nice boost in traffic at the tail end of 2007 as well. :) It is funny but that post had a nice boost in traffic at the tail end of 2007 as well. :)

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