How long and How Much?

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[webmastertexas]

I wanted to get you guys take on this. I've had my site online for about 3 years, but it's only been about a year since I invested any time on it. Before, it was just a hobby that I occassionally messed with the site in-between classes, and sometimes I'd go for weeks without bothering with it. It's only been a year since I've really put effort into it.

I was wondering about you guys sites. Question: talking about your main site (if you have more than one), what kind of page impressions do you get right now, and how long did it take you to get that much? I'm just curious to see how long it generally takes to reach a certain number.

BTW: no need to tell us what your site is about, or the name. (Because, as you know, URLs aren't allowed anyways.)

[Larryhat]

Hello Texas:
By "impressions", do you mean hits? Unique visitors? or maybe something else. These days I get 400-700 hits a day on may main entry page --/index.html.

Like you it was a hobby site at first, but I always put in a lot of effort into quality content. I have a unique database/mapping program resulting from 20 years of my research. It was a relative snap to take the output from that and convert it into website presentations. Best. - Larry

[devildude8989]

Impressions is how many times a page is viewed.

[outrun]

Depends what area you are in, for my hobby site I am providing software I have written and source code for theories, in less then a year the main page was receiving 400 visitors / 700 hits a day. Mostly because of listing it in Niche Directories and repositories after that it recieved many one way links which brought many more visitors, now its a starting point for all my website projects because of its high PR and impressions.

regards,
Mark

[webmastertexas]

Right, let me rephrase that. I'm talking about hits.

[ska_demon]

Site 1: Last year 2-300 per day
This year 2-3 per day (damn filters ;o)

Site 2: 500 per week consistent but little conversions.

Site 3: Uploaded 5 days ago 20 per day organic SERPS
Lucky Me

Ska

[superbird]

WebmasterTexas, do you really want to know how many pages, images, css files etc are downloaded from peoples sites a day? If it was me I'd want to know uniques and visits

[Leosghost]

hits is worthless as info ..visits is relevant

[thaedge]

Hits really dont mean much - I could put 100 images on a page and have 5 visitors and then 500 hits :)

As far as visitors?

oldest hobby site of mine - Pre Sept 23rd 3000-6000 a day, currently 1000 - 3000 a day

another side job/hobby site 50 - 300 a day

final hobby site - nothing really, built it and havent had time to trade links, build content and such

[txbakers]

My sites are doing very well. On my primary site - online software - I'm getting close to 6000 uniques a day, with about 800 registered users on paid subscription.

It took four years to get this far, and only the last year has really been profitable.

I don't do mass mailings or worry about Google or other search engines any more, just attend trade shows and advertise in trade journals. Word of mouth takes care of the rest.

It's a lot of work. Did I say a lot of work? It's even more than that.

I have three more in the works right now and I'm quitting my day job in December to support myself full time with these. Nifty.

[webmastertexas]

Let's go with page views for the numbers.