TechFlaps | Waves of Technology

I started posting articles in this blog four months before, from May 2008 with a doubt of whether there will be somebody to visit this blog and read the articles I am posting. Now after four months and 100 posts I feel pretty comfortable and is really looking forward to post more and more articles.

I started blogging in 2007 January and tried a lot of different topics and in all of them I lost my interest after 20-20 articles as there was nothing much to cover for me. I was a design buff and was always changing the designs of my blog, which made me to search over and over again for new blog templates. I thought why should I start a blog for these blog templates and which provides some tricks and tips to make the blog more useful, which is scattered in the net.

With the blog name bloggerweb20template.blogspot.com I started this blog. Well, you heard it correctly. That really was a long name for a blog or a website. I realized that it was a bad choice when it comes to website/blog names, when it comes to traffic and visitors.

So I bought a domain named www.techflaps.com, and started blogging under this domain and needless to say, it’s going pretty well. When searching for a good domain name I was literally searching the dictionaries to find a right name and I stumbled upon this Flaps, which means Waves and I adds a tech fro technology before it. And thus born www.techflaps.com.

Still now this blog is in a growing state and I can see my traffic is going up, I am getting more and more visitors, thanks for all the visitors. I was looking at the Google Analytics results for my blog and it turned out like this. This looks really good for a starter blog.

This was only for two weeks and I am getting a good number of visitors, taken into account the age of my blog and the frequency in which articles are posted. I am proud that I too can get some visitors from the vast Internet. It’s very difficult to keep the users visiting your site again and again, given the vast amount of available alternative in Internet. But its interesting to see that 1/3rd of my visitors are returning visitors.

Still it's not a good thing that the visitor length is less and only a small portion of the visitors stays in my site for more than 10 seconds. I do believe that this can be increased by posting more and more interesting articles. A reason for this might be the visitors from traffic creating sites like entrecard.com and others. I have and entrecard in my site but the traffic provided by them is useful just to increase the visitor count. They are not concerned about reading the stuff here or visiting my site, rather interested in their entrecard credit. Still they are getting some traffic, better than nothing.....

I am getting a lot of new visitors though. This is really encouraging as new visitors count is more than half of the total visitors in my blog. The blog is getting attention from someone, at least. Thanks for all the referrers’ though. This really matters a lot for a blog which is just 4 months old. Now I have to keep them all as my loyal visitors, and that is a pretty tough job.

Approximately 61% of my site traffic is through referring sites and the top in this list is digg, stumbleupon and entrecard. Of these I can rely upon digg and stumbleupon as they provide me serious visitors who are interested in the articles posted in my blog. Search engines get me 15% and 25% is direct traffic.

Statcounter is also giving me pretty good analytics for the traffic and for the same time period I am getting much more amount of visitors than I was anticipated.

This is the 101th article in techflaps.com and I am pretty excited about the future of this blog. Hope I will get more and more visitors and the site will catch more publicity among serious blogger.

Just let me know how you feel about the blog and the articles and any suggestions to make the blog and articles more interesting and useful.