How much traffic should I expect

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   Fineprintposted 13 years ago

   I know I am just starting out here, but traffic isn't exactly what I was hoping for.  I know I still don't have many articles and I plan to do the 30 hubs in 30 days, but I only have 5 views today from 3 of my 5 hubs (I just published my 6th).  I haven't backlinked or anything because I thought this site didn't need it.  Is my traffic about normal for starting out?  I'm probably jumping the gun so to speak, but I am thinking this is a low number. I'm guessing this is because of Panda?

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      chasemillisposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      ya, I'm assuming you have to have a lot of backlinks because mine have slowly gone down to less than 10...

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         WryLiltposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         My hub that gets 500 hits a day has never been backlinked by me.

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   WryLiltposted 13 years ago

   Completely normal. The older content gets, the more traffic it usually gets (if it's not in a totally saturated or too broad topic.)
   
   A hub I have that gets about 500 hits a day now got approximately:
   
   -2-3 hits a day for first three months.
   -30-50 hits a day for the next three months.
   -100+ for the next three months.
   -Since then has slowly grown to 500 hits a day.

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      Mark Ewbieposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Now I'm off dreaming again.  Lots of 0's and 1's, if they grew to 5's I'd be happy.

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         WryLiltposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Maybe they're sending you a secret message in binary!

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            Mark Ewbieposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Lol that's very good!

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   Pearldiverposted 13 years ago

   I get the most traffic here on Thursdays and Fridays
   
   6767 Taxis
   998 Buses
   14529 Cars
   888 Motorcycles
   12156 Mopeds
   90854 Bi-Cycles
   7590 Straight-Cycles
   21 Carrier Pigeons
   397 Horse Drawn Carts
   6 Police Vehicles
   1 Train
   66 LeftHand Drive Elephants
   13 RightHand Drive Elephants
   10 Skateboards
   And...
   5 people reading my work.
   
   I Hope To Improve My Conversion Rates soon:
   
   Edit* -
   
   + 2 Donkeys
   + 75 Amish Buggies
   + A Partridge in a Bare Tree
   
   RED Triangles.. Yes.. 2 Extra Donkeys + a passing Rabbit

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      Mark Ewbieposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Nice list - that new analytics is pretty powerful.

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         Pearldiverposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Yep..
         
         Wow You Get Yours In Binary
         
         What do you think of those new mouse pads that teach you MSDOS

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            Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            I tried MDA one time!  Nice traces! 

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               Pearldiverposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               Did You Get To Play Spacies and Pacman?

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                  Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                  Certainamente!  I am not as unworldly as my humble southern redneck upbringing might suggest, PD!  I had the original PONG video game! I ain't shittin' you either!

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                     Pearldiverposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                     Soooooooo Thunderbirds Are Goooooooooooo
                     
                     Bloody hell... You must have had an Atari set too

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      tritrainposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I thought it was a "Bear" tree.

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   Fineprintposted 13 years ago

   Ok so my traffic level is about normal for starting out.  I just didn't want to wait around 6 months and find out that I should be doing something different.

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   tritrainposted 13 years ago

   With respect to new content, getting 5 hits a day for new content, these days since Google's Panda, is an optimistic goal.

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   Pamela Sarzanaposted 13 years ago

   I just started I have 3 article's. I have had 176 hits so far is that good or bad?

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   Pamela Sarzanaposted 13 years ago

   If I got 300 hits a day, I would faint dead away :}

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      WryLiltposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Based on the low quality of your articles, that's very surprising.
      
      However I'm just wondering how many hits are internal (from both yourself and hubpages members) and how many are external (search engines?)

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   Fineprintposted 13 years ago

   Pamela, I  would say that is really good.  How many of those hits are from google?

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   B A N K A I guyposted 13 years ago

   My new hubs are getting 10-30 hits a day (each of them) ( I joined 4 days ago) so is that good or will it just start to drop and never go up again?#
   
   After 4 days = 150 views and some (according to analytics) organic backlinks

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