This graph shows pure search engine traffic from Google, mostly. I did go and check my ranks on certain keywords and they seem to have DROPPED. So, when I quit using Entrecard my search engine traffic shot up, and when I started again the search engine traffic shot down. I’m not sure why this would be caused merely by using EC or not using EC. Regardless, I know I have a long way to go before I really start to rank in the search engines.

If this is the way it works, I might as well get free traffic from the search engines rather than dropping 300 all the time to get the exact same amount of traffic. Also, the search engine traffic is of a higher quality, showing a 60% bounce rate, where Entrecard has an over 90% bounce rate.

My intentions were to stack the Entrecard traffic ontop of the search engine traffic, not to kill my better source of traffic!

So, I think I’m dropping entrecard. Sorry guys.

Analytics states that I’m getting approximately 117 – 150 unique per day, since I started dropping less with Entrecard.

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Now, switching over to just search engine traffic with analytics we see that approximately 50% of my traffic per day recorded by Analytics is search engine based. It’s growing slowly.

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Analytics seems fairly consistent with my ProjectWonderful stats, which means that various blocking plugins for FireFox are not only blocking ProjectWonderful, but Analytics as well.

Webalizer

Now let’s have a look at what webalizer has to say about my traffic.

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Seems as if Webalizer is painting an entirely different picture. It shows that my traffic really didn’t drop off when I started to drop less on Entrecard. I believe this can be explained by my search engine traffic growing, which lead to my drop off of EC not showing up. It’s actually quite apparent to me I’m part of the search engines. Why? Well, I get a lot of spam comments even with BadBehavior running. Without BadBehavior, I once received 50 spam comments in one day.

Conclusion

If you’re using Analytics, I would consider switching to something that is blocked less by the various plugins out there. Clicky analytics was recommended by nukeit.org, and I have to agree. Anything that is being blocked by NoScript/Adblock Plus and the other assortment of things out there, is not going to give you reliable stats. The best stats come from log analyzers such as Webalizer.

Most of my traffic comes from entrecard right now, I really need to get listed on Yahoo and MSN, but they’re taking their time again. I know the bots are on my site. I’m only getting about 15-20 visits/day from google. The rest is direct traffic/entrecard traffic.

What I’m mainly curious about is my bounce rate. I don’t get it, isn’t entrecard supposed to create a HIGH bounce rate? Are people blocking analytics or what? Just something I’m pondering. I hear most people get a 60% bounce rate or something like that when most of their traffic is from Entrecard. Entrecard traffic, according to analytics has a 4.00% bounce rate. Strange?