A new ERT feature

[COBOLdinosaur]

I have just added a stats page to the site:
http://www.expertsrt.com/static/stats.html

For those who have indicated an interest in seeing hw we are doing.

The link to the page is now also in the sidebar of the home page.

I will update it every month, and I will add more stats and presentations as time permits.

In the 8 months since we went live we have delivered almost 200,000 pages and had around 100,000 visits.  There are not many sites that have fired up that quickly with absolutely no paid advertising.  Everyone who has contributed content, support, coding, ideas, and help did that.

Great job everyone!

[coral1]

Great job everyone!

Great job, yourself. It was your idea.
Thanks for letting me play.   : )

[Huntress]

Awesome!  :-)

[GrandSchtroumpf]

I love stats :)

[COBOLdinosaur]

I guess the :) on those means you see that we are rolling along very nicely.

The Google numbers are the really icing on the cake.  One of the things I get out of the analytics is a stat on click through rates.  That ranks pages based on the percentage of times that a user clicks on the page link when it is listed in the top 20.  Our top page in terms of hits and rank is the apache install for XP.  It has a huge range of key word pharases it hits on and for those Google reports its "average" position in the SERPS is 1.  I have seen it come up as low as 5 but the optimization on it is terrific.

However it is not the number one click through.  The number one click through (remember it is percentage based) is the Javascript File Read article. Now I need to figure out how to combine the performance of the two to get montster optimization that comes up on top a lot, and has the appeal to bring the users to the site.  If I can come up with the right mix for that, then I can use that landing page to promote other pages on the site, and guide traffic to the forum.

It is all experimentation, but now that I have the Google sitemap installed I can make changes and Google 'bots are here doing the re-indexing with 24 hours of me promoting a new version of the xml file to Google. But the detail really takes up a pile of time and I want things right before I put a page up.  That is why it takes a long time for me to get some pages up... I want them right so Google gets it right and we don't have good content sitting with no traffic because I screwed up on promotion.

The part I like about the way the stas fall in is the way we hit a plateau after the big spikes form Digg.  It means we do not have to be hitting a home run every day.  We get a laxting effect, and it lookx to be cumulative so we keep moving up in steps. :^)