I was looking through old blog entries and saw Fan History referrer patterns with data from 2008. Since then, we’ve done some work to increase our traffic. We’ve succeeded in increasing the number of visitors to the wiki. We’ve got some new referrers. So time for a compare and contrast. Where have we improved from September 2008 to May 2009? These numbers are based on daily average visits from that referrer.
Sep-08 May-09 Increase
Google 852 1,427.6 575.6
Yahoo 144 187.7 43.7
LiveJournal 54 42.8 -11.2
NarutoFic.Org 16 0.0 -16.0
Wikipedia 14 9.2 -4.8
Ask 11 5.2 -5.8
AnimeNewsNetwork 8 33.0 25.0
Wikia 8 6.3 -1.7
AOL 7 13.6 6.6
FanFiction.Net 6 9.1 3.1
MSN 4 10.8 6.8
FanPop 3 5.7 2.7
DeviantArt 3 0.6 -2.4
TVTropes 2 6.1 4.1
EncyclopediaDramatica 2 0.7 -1.3
Altavista 2 1.5 -0.5
FaceBook 1 2.4 1.4
hogwartsnet.ru 1 2.0 1.0
Total Daily 1,138 1,764.3 626.3
We’ve really increased our Google traffic. This was done by increasing our overall link diversity. It is why we can take a hit with LiveJournal traffic, EncyclopediaDramatica traffic, DeviantART traffic and Wikipedia traffic and see an increase in our overall traffic. What you aren’t seeing is our increase in traffic from places like Chickipedia, Twitter, answers.yahoo.com, wiki.fandomwank.com, ident.ca and jumptags.
Same advice as I had in October:If you’re running your own fansite or you have no money to promote your site, our suggestion is to spread yourself out some and focus on all aspects: Link building, quality content creation, quantity content creation, back end SEO optimization.
