Analysis of my HubPages Traffic Sources
66Analysis of my HubPages Traffic Sources
HubPages provides a wealth of statistics. This essay focuses on the Traffic Source breakdown page, http://hubpages.com/my/traffic_source. Note that only registered HubPages members have access to this page, and only to their specific data. HubPages does not share this information between hubbers.
The following table breaks down all the referring sites since I started hubbing, about 6 months ago. I have enjoyed 26060 referrals. My most frequent referrer has been google.com, which has provided almost half of my total referrals. A distant second is HubPages.com, with 6119, or 23 per cent of the total.
One interesting traffic source is SwagBucks.com. Having never visited the site, I don't know how it learned about my hubs. SwagBucks has provided 88 total referrals over the life of my account, but they may or may not have generated income. In order to learn if any SwagBucks referrals have been profitable for me, I could use Google Analytics.
According to the "My Account" page, http://hubpages.com/my/hubs, my hubs have hosted 31252 page views. This number differs radically from the total referral count, 26060. I assume that visitors to my hubs have viewed more than one page per visit: 31252 / 26060 = 1.199 page views per visit. That number passes my sanity check.
It's all good?
What does this all mean? On the surface we can imply that currying the favor of Google is a good thing. The other 2 major search engines, Yahoo.com and Bing.com, don't seem to be in the game at this point. We know that Google handles 70% of all internet searches with Yahoo a distant second at 17%. This does not make Yahoo referrals any less valuable, although time spent optimizing for Google is time better invested when considering volume of traffic.
Source: http://www.hitwise.com/us/datacenter/main/dashboard-10133.html
Suffer the Little Googles
Google thoughtfully provides country-specific search engines. For example, google.it is Google Italy and google.de is Google Germany. Individually they each represent a tiny fraction of my total referrals, but collectively they are an interesting indication of my global outreach.
Breakdown of Referrals
Domain
| Total Referrals
| |
|---|---|---|
google.com
| 11051
| |
hubpages.com
| 6119
| |
search.yahoo.com
| 3307
| |
google.co.in
| 1698
| |
google.ca
| 800
| |
google.co.uk
| 686
| |
images.google.com
| 233
| |
google.com.ph
| 312
| |
google.com.au
| 324
| |
search.aol.com
| 151
| |
google.com.my
| 118
| |
google.de
| 133
| |
google.com.br
| 83
| |
google.nl
| 78
| |
google.co.za
| 80
| |
bing.com
| 76
| |
google.com.pk
| 85
| |
google.es
| 55
| |
google.se
| 64
| |
google.ie
| 53
| |
swagbucks.com
| 88
| |
mail.yahoo.com
| 55
| |
google.pl
| 54
| |
google.com.sg
| 77
| |
google.co.nz
| 56
| |
google.com.tr
| 53
| |
google.it
| 60
| |
ask.com
| 54
| |
digg.com
| 57
|
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Comments
@SimeyC: I don't know if Google has spiders for all their country-specific domains of if they dole out the links from their master database to all those other engines. It's cool to think that my pages are semi-interesting in Italy and India.
Excellent hub I wish mine were as good as yours. Keep up the good work. Take a look a t mine and tell me what you think
Take care and have a happy life.
Pete
Nicmp - Thanks for sharing this it too confirms my analysis of my own activity, and gives me an indicator of what to expect Thanks!!
@Hmrjmr1 : Thanks, this info does have more meaning in a relative framework.
Nicomp, my biggest traffic source was reddit.com, and they generated about 48,000 pageviews in the course of two days. However, I get more traffic from Hubpages than from Google, and this may account for the fact that I haven't made any money, despite hitting the 100,000 mark.
@Aya Katz: You haven't made *any* money? 100,000 views is awesome.
Nicomp,
Congratulations on your stats!
Thank you for this information. Although I have been on hubpages for several months now I am still learning about Traffic etc. Thank You for sharing!
Blessings
Nicomp you are a shining example. Hubpages is a wonderful place because you get away with writing on anything - including how to make money from worms - and still get traffic like this! Obviously, there are worms all over the world.
Interesting. I didn't know Hubpages provided us with all these tools. But how do you integrate google analytics with your hub?
SimeyC says:
2 months ago
It is interesting to view the stats - I find that while I'm not in the realms of numbers that you have, I am seeing a lot coming in from Google (not just google.com) with yahoo.com also contributing but no where near as much as google!
Thanks for sharing!