Something Google This Way Comes

This is an exciting moment for any new blog owner: I think Google just cruised me. That is, I think the Google "spiders" checked out my site, looking over each post to see what it's about, evaluating whether to link to me or not, and how prominently to rank me in search results.

This is exciting, because on my own, without any search engines linking to me, I've been able to drive 100 visits to Print To Online in four days. That's pretty good, I think, but once Google starts pointing information seekers to me -- I shudder to think. I could be looking at another 10 or 20 visitors a day!

Anyways, here's yet another screenshot from my sitemeter search results, showing Google visited Print to Online for 16 minutes tonite. We'll see in a few days whether they liked me or not.

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Will Twitter Really Drive Traffic to My Blog?

Yep -- anytime you publish or do something new you'd like people to see, Twitter is a great way to get the word out. I recently posted to my Twitter (120 followers) that I'd launched this new blog. At the time that I posted it, I'd had eight visitors so far that day (hey, the blog's only like four days old. Give it time!)

My Tweet about my blog brought 20 more readers within hours. Pretty small numbers, I know, but every little bit helps, right? The same post on Facebook brought only four readers.

Here's a screenshot of my traffic report for the few hours after I Tweeted about my blog. Each one of those "Twitter" lines reflects a different person following the link from my Twitter feed to check out the blog:



Check this earlier post to learn how to add this cool & free traffic tracker to your blog. Read more!

Get a Great Free Traffic Tracker for your Blog

Yes, you've already added Feedjit, which is cool, but doesn't track much information. SITEMETER gives you more information, and it's free.

To add Sitemeter traffic tracking to your site:

1. Go to Sitemeter.com
2. Sign up.
3. Click on MANAGER at the top of the page
4. In the left nav on the page that comes up, CLICK HTML
5. On the new page that comes up you'll see some HTML code. Copy this code.
6. Return to your BLOGGER account. Click on LAYOUT.
7. CLICK on GADGET
8. CLICK on TEXT
9. PASTE THE CODE.
10. SAVE Read more!