Experiment One, Phase Three

So finally, my experiment has come to an end. Ive concluded that every new post adds about 2.5 unique visitors, while each link bringing in about .045 visitors at this point per week. And it seems that an individual backlink increases its power of visitor aquisition by .0001 for every other backlink in the network.

Of course, I can recommend that grea content does a part, because more than a few posts brought in more than other posts. So still, content is king!

So how many visitors will 100 backlinks net you? About five visitors a day.

How many will 1000 net you? Given that the trend of increasing synergy through backlinks continues, an unreal number of 140 per day. This is to assume progression is geometric.

So, I have a final test. I will record as I post 20 backlinks every day for the next five days, and reset my counter for the site. Then I will get another 5 days to see how many hits these create, finding a nice average.

Then my goal is to build 1000 textual backlinks over the next 30 days, for the same site. I will post 30 backlinks per day for 30 days, then record the results. This will give me a combined total of 1000 backlinks.

Unfortunately, I will really have to exhaust myself to develope these links!

Experiment Update

Ah. So the first phase of the experiment is over. The typical blog, that posts once a week, will maintain traffic of 1.2 unique visitors per day. However, you must also remember, that the vast majority of these visitors came immedietely after I had posted a story.

So for further explanation, for every post on a blog, it seems with little or no notoriety, that it will produce 5 unique visitors. However, none of these visitors converted to subscribers, though they might still be thought of as readers, none of them comment. Im supposing it takes one of three things to generate comments on a blog, either a massive amount of traffic, a very specific blog, or a contest or the like which will result in audience participation.

However, once again this is no the point of this new study. So phase two will begin as I post another story on the experiment blog. I will support it with 10 backlinks in highly targetted blogs of a similiar nature. Knowing what I do now, I will subtract 5 visitors from the total produced for today (the 5th), to account for the novelty of the new post.

Anyhow, so in summation, a new post results in 5 unique visitors. However, I assume as a blog's notoriety increases, the effects of backlinks, new blog posts, and advertising in general will increase. So thanks for tuning in!