The state's hits for the first 11 months

I create sub-folders and number every blog entry that I write just to help keep things organized.  With all the video, images, and text if you don?t keep it organized things can get hard to find.  It just appeared to me that I had written 99 blog entries thus far.  I periodically give site growth/metric updates and so figured I might as well give a site update since the 100th blog entry is here.

In football we always said "The big eye in the sky don't lie" which, while grammatically incorrect, still carried valuable meaning.  This saying meant that we knew someone was filming practice or the game and that eventually we would all be sitting down with the coach and would watch the film to see what really happened on various plays.  In the web world, the "Big eye in the sky" is the analytics program that runs in your site's background tracking your site's metrics.  The "Big eye in the sky" always told the truth about your performance on the field and so do the metrics denote the true success of your site. 

With that said, I feel we?ve made considerable progress with the growth of the site.  As deer season is approaching, the numbers are already starting to climb.  As many of you know, we started this site last September just for fun and have essentially done minimal marketing.  It?s mostly been word of mouth, some bumper stickers, and a couple of T-Shirts.  Considering the low-budget marketing, I think the growth of the site is pretty impressive?at least from a web developer?s standpoint.  To have over 100,000 page views within just less than a year is a good sign and is definitely more than I initially anticipated.

So here?s the metric breakdown and some other info?

Metrics and Info (from Sept ?09 ? Aug ?10)

At the time of this 100th blog entry we are one month short of being up one full year and have had:

• 15,676 visits
• 5,540 visitors
• 104,008 page views
• Visitors from 48 different states
• Visitors from 6 different continents

I mentioned the numbers have started to climb as we approach deer season?here?s an image extracted from the metrics demonstrating what I mean.

 

The Top 10 cities in SC that visited the site were as follows:

1. Pageland (obviously)
2. Rock Hill (another give me)
3. Jefferson
4. Hartsville
5. Chesterfield
6. Goose Creek
7. Columbia
8. Gilbert
9. Bishopville
10. Greenville

* I will also add that for about a month the link to our site went semi-viral in Finland due to this blog entry.  So everyone from Chesterfield downward was outdone by the Finns!  Hyvva Suomi!

Searching for WeHuntSC.com via Keywords

	Top keywords for WeHuntSC.com for the 1st 11 months

From the looks of the keywords, it looks like most people are finding the site by typing in my name and the word ?hunt? as well as other variations of the site?s name.  It also appears that the blog entry I wrote titled ?Webneck: The Fragmented Identity? is getting some good search traffic.  I must have spelled everything right in that one!  Looks like we got some Pee Dee Deer Classic traffic to the site as well.  

The YouTube Channel

	GroundHog MAX Tops the YouTube Views List

To date, we?ve posted 129 videos to our YouTube Channel and it seems that the GroundHog MAX video takes the lead in views with 687 views at this point.  People seem to be looking for the GroundHog MAX online and ending up at our YouTube channel or on the Food Plot Journey pages on the site!  See if you just give the boys at WeHuntSC.com a chance, we can help push your products and/or services!

In sum, I?ve written 100 blogs (with this entry being the 100th) and I hope you have enjoyed at least some of them.  It?s neat that we cross the 100,000 page views at a time close to the 100th blog, though I don?t think they are exactly related to each other.  We?ve come a long way since last September, but we?ve still got plenty of ground to cover.   Though, keeping it in perspective? it?s all in fun!  I?m interested to see what happens on the site this upcoming deer season with the images, competitions, videos, and ?yes? with the analytics!

Regards,
 

Clint