How to get over 100,000 hits a month on your website

[Kenton H. Shepard, CMI]

Content is king...

WWW.PEAKTOPRAIRIE.COM
Hits, Summary by Month
May '08- 74636
June '08- 80777
July '08- 85641
Aug. '08- 77997
Sept. '08- 86697
Oct. '08- 96645
Nov. '08- 96879
Dec. '08- 84745
Jan. '09- 101486
Feb '09- 97741
March '09- 106608
April '09- 77979

take advantage of the InterNACHI library
http://www.nachi.org/articles.htm

[Nick Gromicko]

And get your inspection-related content here: www.nachi.org/articles.htm

Make a page on your site for each article.

[Frank M. Carrio, CMI]

Originally Posted by kshepard

Content is king...

WWW.PEAKTOPRAIRIE.COM
Hits, Summary by Month
May '08- 74636
June '08- 80777
July '08- 85641
Aug. '08- 77997
Sept. '08- 86697
Oct. '08- 96645
Nov. '08- 96879
Dec. '08- 84745
Jan. '09- 101486
Feb '09- 97741
March '09- 106608
April '09- 77979

take advantage of the InterNACHI library
http://www.nachi.org/articles.htm

Nice Website!

I see that you received over 100,000 hits in Jan. & March of this year.
{Most of us would be MORE than happy with just half of that traffic.}

Can you {would you} tell me how many inspections did you "book" because of these hits?

PS:
Keep up the good work! I enjoy your videos

[bdoles2]

Quite a big drop from March to April...

[Dominic J. Maricic]

April's not over quite yet, I'm sure he'll get more!

Remember, hits are not page views. 100,000 hits is still a lot , but it does not mean 100,000 people visited the site. Every time an image or page is loaded it's considered a hit. Unique visitors is a better gauge for traffic.

[Bobby Hamilton]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Remember, hits are not page views. 100,000 hits is still a lot , but it does not mean 100,000 people visited the site. Every time an image or page is loaded it's considered a hit. Unique visitors is a better gauge for traffic.

So are you saying that if you have 100 pics on one page when someone views it, do you get 100 hits?

[ldapkus]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

April's not over quite yet, I'm sure he'll get more!

Remember, hits are not page views. 100,000 hits is still a lot , but it does not mean 100,000 people visited the site. Every time an image or page is loaded it's considered a hit. Unique visitors is a better gauge for traffic.

Dom,
How do we find out how many unique visitors we had???

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Yes, exactly. So Kenton's site probably represents about 1000 visitors or 34 a day which is very good for a home inspection site!

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by ldapkus

Dom,
How do we find out how many unique visitors we had???

Install Google Analytics on all your sites. http://www.homeinspectorpro.com/insp...sg1563#msg1563

[ldapkus]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Install Google Analytics on all your sites. http://www.homeinspectorpro.com/insp...sg1563#msg1563

Thanks Dom,
I added them to all my sites. Yeah I did it right. I just have to wait now to see the results. I had to have the webmaster add the code to my site but don't have to do that anymore since I switched.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by ldapkus

Thanks Dom,
I added them to all my sites. Yeah I did it right. I just have to wait now to see the results. I had to have the webmaster add the code to my site but don't have to do that anymore since I switched.

Glad you find it easy to add on your new sites You'll start seeing results by tomorrow. It usually takes 24 hours before data starts appearing. It's really awesome to be able to tell Google Analytics to compare this month and last months stats side by side. It becomes very telling on what you're doing right/wrong. For example, the average visit to our site lasts over 15 minutes, and has slowly been increasing each month. As inspectors I'd be aiming for 3-5 minutes on your site to capture your clients attention and to know they'll call you. If your average visit lasts only seconds you know the guys are leaving before they even bother to get to know you.

[John McKenna]

Another good tracking device to measure various aspects of your page
traffic and where they come from. Paste code into your page and your done.

http://extremetracking.com/

BTW... it's free.

[dbolduc]

Actually hits don't mean much at all other than bots have found you which is a start. As an example "Home Inspector" gets entered as a search term. Should the search bot have your site cached, you get one hit per the phrase 'Home Inspector', one hit for 'Home' and one for 'Inspector'. You just got 3 hits and nobody even saw your page. You could be the last one listed on Google and still have thousands of hits with a search result so deep nobody ever sees it because nobody looks that far down except to see who the poor sap at the end is.

What you need to do is make sure your meta tags are accurate and not too many and without repetition. You need actual page visit counts, time spent where as well as return and new clients information to get a realistic view of what your website is doing. Look at the location of the servers of visitors.

If your webhost doesn't provide this information dump them ASAP and get a real one.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Devin,

I agree hits don't mean much at all. Like it's been said, 100 images on a page would be 101 hits.

I've never heard of a hit being received just because someone searched for 'home inspector' though. That's the whole point of a site being cached, that Google has a copy on their server so that they don't have to look at your site and slow them down. The only way I know of that you could get a hit without someone visiting your site is if someone else is displaying an image, flash file or some other server content from your site. If I'm wrong about this, I'd like to know. Let me know where you got this info from as I always want to learn more

[ldapkus]

Originally Posted by dbolduc

Actually hits don't mean much at all other than bots have found you which is a start. As an example "Home Inspector" gets entered as a search term. Should the search bot have your site cached, you get one hit per the phrase 'Home Inspector', one hit for 'Home' and one for 'Inspector'. You just got 3 hits and nobody even saw your page. You could be the last one listed on Google and still have thousands of hits with a search result so deep nobody ever sees it because nobody looks that far down except to see who the poor sap at the end is.

What you need to do is make sure your meta tags are accurate and not too many and without repetition. You need actual page visit counts, time spent where as well as return and new clients information to get a realistic view of what your website is doing. Look at the location of the servers of visitors.

If your webhost doesn't provide this information dump them ASAP and get a real one.

If your webhost doesn't provide this information dump them ASAP and get a real one.

Hey Devin,
You've got a kickass website. Does your wesite host provide you with this information?? Maybe you should stick to your compost farming and leave the serious stuff to Dominic. You may want to get a real website and work on implementing Dominick's SEO tips. It works for me in Chicago