Internet Marketing: Where Do They Come from?

Visitors for February 5, 2020 

Much has been written about Internet Marketing and the various schemes to get traffic. There are literally thousands of publications, big and small, with an equally large number of ideas and methodologies for getting visitors.

For a while now I've been quietly studying the flow of visitors to the blog and after several months of looking at all the graphs and "Google analytics" it is very clear that, repetition, if not outright habit are one of the big factors. People get used to checking in at the same time every day. The map shown in the picture is virtually unchanging every morning, with most of the visitors coming from Canada, with a smattering occasionally showing up from Europe. This is not Google analytics by the way which are much more complex looking, this is only a screenshot of the much simpler Blogger overview screen.

But what really has me interested to here is the geography of the visitors. There is nothing in this blog's coding which directs Google or any other search engine (I'll include Facebook and Twitter hereto as pseudo-search engines, since that is where a lot of the traffic especially right after an article was published comes from) to limit the spread to North America. Yet something does. Now it could be that this is something to do with where I announce new postings and in this case that mainly Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Of these three Twitter has turned out to be the far more important service to consider when attracting an audience. This only gets new visitors to the blog once or twice, as I have long suspected, this produces a spike in the graph but it is short-lived usually dying down within hours.

When I first saw this, I immediately joined, Google analytics and Google AdSense because they both provide much more detailed information. If I can get Google AdSense to pay for the cost of the domain over a year I will be happy. But that is, by far only a minor point. Far more fascinating are the daily habits visitors are beginning to demonstrate. Between 7 and 7:30 AM, the same 10 visitors appear. Now because the system only provides an ID number, these could be robots, but the numbers seem to vary just enough that I think there is flesh and blood behind these hits, a real human being.

Still doesn't explain though, the geography of the hits… It is just one of those curious things I am investigating. As I learn more, I will let you know. There are many creative people out there with great ideas and websites to match who are really having a hard time dealing with Internet marketing and getting the word out. This is my small way of "learning by doing" and I intend to pass along what ever I find to you. Take care have a great day!

Patrick Clark