Analyzing Your Sex Blog Statistics

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Know thy reader!  The 3rd Blogging Commandment.

Earlier I wrote about starting a sex blog, monetizing a sex blog, and maintaining a sex blog.  Today I want to talk a little bit about analyzing your traffic.  Traffic just means how many visitors come to your site.

There are several statistic programs available to bloggers.  My favorites are the WordPress stats that are a plug-in or Google Analytics.  The WP Stats are 2nd grade level easy.  The Google Analytics program is a little more difficult because you need to go into the Header.php file and add the code for it.  Either way, it’s important to take a look at who’s coming to your site, where they’re coming from, what pages they’re visiting, how long they stay, and where they click out to,

One important reason for tracking your stats is for you can keep track of your top referrers.  These are people you want to make friends with - they are sending you traffic!  It’s generally a good idea to be nice to those people - they aren’t sending you traffic by coincidence - they’ve linked you up.  Link back!  You can even add a “top referrers” list to your page - reciprocating some traffic.

Another reason why you should pay close attention to your stats is to keep an eye on your top posts.  What is it about them that draws people to them?  Is it a catchy title?  Is it a particular topic that you could write more on?  Double check your top posts to make sure that the links are all active and maybe even re-link things to direct traffic to another post or another page.

Paying attention to where your visitors are clicking out to is important, as well.  If you are blogging cleverly, then you know that directing traffic is just as important as getting traffic.  If your clicks are all going out to Wikipedia.org, you’re probably not being smart about your outclicks.  I try to set my links strategically to either one of my other blogs, a revShare site, a friend’s blog, or a related post or category within my blog.  The picture above, for example, is linked to the category, “Blogs”.   And please, for the love of God, when you create a link out, give it a target=”_blank”  attribute so that it opens in a new window - otherwise you’ve just lost your reader as they click on to the next page.

Taking note of your outclicks is also helpful if your blog is monetized.  You can easily keep track of how many people you are sending to each site, giving you an idea of which affiliate programs are the best for your blog.  For example, I can see in my statistics in Catalina Says that my most popular affiliate programs are The Collar Factory and VibeReview.com.  That tells me that people like those sites and I should continue to promote those companies.  If, for example, my stats showed just one click out/day to JoeJoe’sPornoBlog then I would probably drop JoeJoe’sPornoBlog from my links page or put his banner at the bottom of my banners page.

Finally, my last argument for being as OCD about stats as I am:  Search Strings!  In my stats I can see exactly what string people searched for when they found my blog.  In today’s stats for example, someone found my blog by typing “slut wife loves to suck cock” into a search engine.   Someone clicked to me because of that.  On Catalina Loves, for example, the term “freckles“  is almost always at the top of my search terms list.  At least 25 people per day find my blog through searching for Freckles in Google (or Yahoo or whatever).  Knowing that, I try to include more freckles into my posts.

Basically anybody can start and run a blog, but it does take some strategic planning and some know-how to blog successfully,  I hope this helps get you on the right path.  Leave a comment here if you have questions.  I check them daily.