BLOG's are not popular

Currently a lot of people write BLOG's because it has become quite easy. Those writers also realize that the visitors aren't coming that easy anymore, because the social media bring much more diversity. So what happens? The BLOG-writers post links on their Social Media Websites like facebook and Tumbler, and also send out Tweets to their followers to draw attention.

That worked quite well for the last years, but now people seem to not follow those links anymore. The BLOG's form an undiscoverd archive of information that most Internet-users are avoiding. A new marketing tool will be brought out soon to solve this. Not sure what it will be.

New Content = Visitors

It is a basic rule in websites. You can attract visitors to a website when you place new content on a regular basis. I have tested it with this blog. A silence of a few eeeks means that the amount of visitors drops. Just a single new posting means that indexing machines place you on a higher scale and that results in a better visibility of your website.

Clustrmaps

On the site http://clustrmaps.com/ you can get a nice gadget that can be implemented on your site. It is a worldmap that shws you where your visitors come from. In the beginning it will be empty, but after a while (and with foreign visitors) the image will build up. I have placed it on top of the sidebar on this blog for this moment. You can now see immediately what countries the visitors come from.

Other statistical programms have this option too. But Clustrmap shows the image straight away on the site for all to see.

World Map on Sitemeter

The worldmap that Sitemeter gives is quite impressive. One can even select a part of the world and the hits are shown. The point on the map vary depending on the number of hits from that place. You can see in one look where the concentration of your visitors comes from. For this blog that is still a quite empty map. but in future days this might become an interesting feature.

Statcounter: Returning Visitors

Statcounter gives you very interesting graphics of returning visitors. They just notice the IP numbers of your visitors and then keepo track if someone comes back. With this free account they only register 500 items. If this is interesting you might consider a paid account that brings you a wealth of information.

Hits according to StatCounter

Hits according to StatCounter on 26-9-2007. They have a different graphical program. You can even change the presentation in several ways as you like. Looks good when you have to present your hits to an audience and/or management.