Now that Netbook-Experience.com & Techplay-experience.com are becoming more established I thought I would see if there is any pattern appearing.

The results are shown below in a table showing an average on traffic on each day per site:

What the results show, other then Tech Play not doing as well as I would hope, is that Weekends continue to be the busiest days.

The blog was born on 21/10/09 and currently has 9 posts.

6 days later Google hasn’t sent a single visitor, but does this mean that anything is wrong – I’ve search Google for my blog’s domain and it is listed so I know that Google is crawling the blog, so why no visitors?

I suspect that the answer is content – when I launched Netbook-experience.com I had a library of posts that I could copy across quickly, more posts = more content = more Google traffic, but with Techplay-Experience I’m having to start from scratch.  So it is going to take a while  to build a good solid  selection of content for Google  to see.

With this is mind I thought I would investigate how long it would take for Google to crawl through my blog and send me traffic if I follow these instructions right from day1.

I’ll give it a go and report back here how it goes.

Originally a Blogger hosted Blog, my Netbook Experience site aims at providing Hints and Tips for getting the best user experience out of the Acer Aspire One Netbook.

Since 03/08/09 :

• Netbook-experience.com has received 1,767 hits from 1106 different visitors.
• During that time 822 hits have come from my old blog - after google un-banned me, I put links from the old site to the new site.
• Google has sent me 470 visitors directly. (Google only started sending me traffic on the 29th of August)
• Aspireoneuser.com sent me 122 hits
• getsatisfaction.com have sent me 65 hits

Originally a Blogger hosted Blog, my Netbook Experience site aims at providing Hints and Tips for getting the best user experience out of the Acer Aspire One Netbook.

The majority of the posts from the old site are now copied across to the new site, and traffic is now hitting the site (after some trouble shooting). So wheres my traffic coming from:

Since 03/08/09 :

• Netbook-experience.com has received 1,317 hits from 823 different visitors.
• During that time 681 hits have come from my old blog - after google un-banned me, I put links from the old site to the new site.
• Google has sent me 292 visitors directly. (Google only started sending me traffic on the 29th of August)
• And between them aspireoneuser.com and  getsatisfaction.com have sent me over 140 hits

I’ve now copied across 21 Articles from my old blog to the new site, and I’m also pleased to have 21 (non spam) comments so far forming some good discussion.

In 21 days since the site went live  I’ve had 457 hits from 298 visitors. I’m quite pleased with that for my first month, but as google is sending me no traffic where is this traffic coming from???

My top sources are:

My old blog sent me: 257 hits – Everytime I moved a post to the new blog I put a link on the old site.

The aspreoneuser.com forums have sent me 63 hits – I updated my forum signiture and posted on there.

Getsatisfaction.com has sent me 32 hits – one of the solutions I posted solved a common problem and a reader posted about my site on there.

So far so good.

On the third of August I started adding links from the posts on the old blog to the copied blogs on the new blog.

Since then  98 visitors have been sent from the old blog to the new blog.

On the 8th of August I made some changes to my posts on the Aspire User Forum (as described in this post). Since then 26 users have arrived from that forum.

I’ve also had 13 hits from GetSatisfaction.com a site where people post solutions to common problems, a visitor to my blog saw that I had posted how to solve a common problem and posted a link there.

What is disappointing is that Google hasn’t sent me a single visitor yet, where as my old blog got plenty of traffic from Google, so I’ve manually tried to add this site using the google add url tool, so I’ll see what happens.

My increase in traffic

To try and re-direct some of the traffic to my new site I’ve taken the following steps.

1) Updated the link in my signature to point to my new site. This way every post I’ve made now contains a link to this site.

2) I’ve edited any post that contained a link to a  post at my old site that has been moved to this site with the new URL.

3) I’ve made a post telling people that my site has moved. I had previously posted about the blog, so I just added a reply explaining about the move and asking for links to other AA1 blogs.

I’ll report back here how well it works.

In today’s post, I’ve explained how to install Picasa on the Linux Version of the Acer Aspire One.

The next step for me is to look into the Monetization of my blogs, there are 2 methods that I’m investigating at the moment, Adsense & Kontera.

There are different ways to implement either method in WordPress, so I’m currently investigating which method generates the best results.

I’ll also be looking into other methods of using the Internet to generate money.

Todays new post are:

1. How to install the arcade emulator MAME onto the Acer Aspire One
2. How to improve MAME performance
3. How to watch BBC TV stations on the Web

netbook-experience.com is online now.