Major progress! As you can see from the chart and table below, I'm well on my way to becoming rich and famous! (Not!) Seriously, the degree of improvement surprised even me, and I am a hopeless optimist when it comes to things technological.
The chart and table below come from SiteMeter, an excellent system for visit tracking.
First, here's the 30-day moving average of page views on the blog. I consider page views a better measure than visits, because visits include people who arrive by accident and leave immediately. the page view metric includes these too, but doesn't give them the same weight as someone who sticks around and views multiple pages.
| Future of Health IT 30-day Moving Average of Page Views |
As you can see, my first efforts at SEO on June 2 marked a watershed point in my blog's popularity. I haven't doubled my moving average of page views yet, but I'm well on my way.
Another metric I find useful is visit length. The accidental tourists are gone in a flash. The ones who stick around matter to me, and as you can see from the table, my top ten referring keywords (search phrases) are health IT related. The dreaded "Second Life R*pe" phrase is no longer in the top ten.
| Future of Health IT Referring Keywords Ranked by Visit Length | ||
| Visit Length | Search Words | Share |
| 38:49:48 | Not referred from a search engine | 47.5% |
| 53:08 | emr skeptic medicine | 1.1% |
| 49:30 | the future of surface computing | 1.0% |
| 45:15 | future of healthcare information systems | 0.9% |
| 41:47 | cchit emr | 0.9% |
| 37:15 | "health it" technology | 0.8% |
| 34:35 | hl7 watch | 0.7% |
| 33:32 | two future | 0.7% |
| 32:18 | emr blogs | 0.7% |
| 32:13 | second life physical computing | 0.7% |
I'm also down to 47.5% not referred from a search engine, from a baseline of 50% when I started. This means a greater percentage of my visits and page views are coming in via organic search - a major source of new recruits. Two and a half per cent may not sound like a lot, but these numbers cover the last 4,000 visits, and only a little over a thousand have occurred since I started my SEO adventure. 2.5% of 4,000 is 100 new visitors arriving via organic search this month.
To see how well I'm doing at retaining these new recruits, we'll take a look at my Feedburner stats next time. They are the provider of my RSS feed, and it's the subscriber numbers that are the real indicator of how popular my blog has become.
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