The Power of Google
Because of Google Analytics, I can easily track how people land on my site. About one in four visits happen when people directly access my site by typing in “TonyMorganLive.com”. The rest of my traffic comes from referrals on other sites. In case you’re curious, the top five referring sites are:
- Twitter – 36% of traffic referrals
- Google – 24%
- Feedburner – 12%
- Facebook – 5%
- Yahoo – 2%
By the way, Twitter and Google have swapped places in the last 12 months. Google used to be the number one way folks found my site. (How do these trends compare to your sites?)
What caught my attention recently, though, was the traffic I was getting from Google due to people searching with the keywords “favorite Android apps”. About 5% of traffic over the last 30 days has come from people checking out My 21 Favorite Android Apps. As it turns out, that article is currently #2 out of 8.6 million results on Google for those keywords:
It’s just a great reminder to me of how valuable search is to how we filter information. Most of my writing is on ministry strategy, but a good chunk of my traffic is coming from a random blog post I wrote on something completely unrelated.
Just out of curiosity, what has Google found on your site that’s not really related to your normal writing patterns?
I just switch to the Nexus 1 and this was the 1st site I came to for apps!