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Re: [LUG] Drupal for DCGLUG site

 

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/08/10 22:53, Roland Tarver wrote:
>>
>> I have been meaning to add some more content.
>>
>> Is traffic that the site receives monitored? (counted)?
>
> The access is logged, I was producing and reading weekly stats but I've
> not been taking too great an interest lately.
>
> The site gets around 250 unique visitors a day, more Mon-Thurs, less
> Fri-Sun.

That's pretty good. 7500/month. More than I expected actually. :-)

> At those kinds of levels a fair amount of it is junk such as referrer
> spam but probably over 200 people use the site each day.
>
> vi(m) text editor shortcuts remains the most viewed content aside from
> the home page, but vim only accounts for about 10 visitors a day, it may
> be the same 10 people visit each day of course we don't track them THAT
> carefully. The front page gets a lot more interest.
>
> http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_doc/vi.html
>
> So if you write compelling content, that appears on the front page
> people will find it and read it.
>
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All Noted. Would be nice to increase the traffic further. Would it be
easy to permit lug members to view the site statistics?

What is the best way of increasing traffic to a site? I know there are
tons of search engine optimisations that can be made, but is the
production of regular, good quality content still the best method to
steadily increase site traffic?

Best wishes
roly

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