how manny visitors is enough?

is 200 good? or maybe 500?

[Nermin]

quick questions for everybody :) i just reached a "milestone" with yahoo. i actually got 1050 visitors for month of september from yahoo. i know you cant really compare with other categories but is this good? is there anywhere a site with numbers and categories :) so i can compare how i am doing vs. other websites and vs. other categories?

thanks guys

nermin

[percentages]

Alexa has some comparison features, but they are not "totally" accurate. In addition I think you will need a lot more visitors before you can really start to compare at Alexa.

In some categories it is very difficult to measure how many visitors your competitors are getting, especially from SE's.

In some categories companies like Nielsen/Netratings publish the estimated total traffic to the major category leaders, but you can't easily deduce how many came from SE's.

You may also be able to use "Top 100" type sites to measure your popularity against some competitors, although the guys with the huge traffic usually don't take part in those types of programs.

You could also try some experimental searches at Wordtracker, Adwords and Overture to approximate the total possible SE traffic. Again these measurements are error prone.

I look at it this way, when I rank in the top 3 for every relevant search term I can think of....I probably have about 50% of the traffic that can be achieved....then I have to go away and think of some more possible search terms and target those!.....Increasing traffic from SE's never ends.

It becomes a balance of how much is left Vs how much effort is required to get those visitors ;)

[Nermin]

true :)
i kind of figured there would be nothing out there but you newer know :)

oh well i guess i should go back and get some other keywords going

thank you for reply :)

[storevalley]

Hi Nermin ...

1000 visitors per month would be very low in most of the categories I look at ... but not all. It depends on the topic area.

Don't know if you've read through this thread yet ...

Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone [webmasterworld.com]

... if not, it might give you some ideas.

[Yidaki]

> 1050 visitors for month of september from yahoo

You're talking only about the directory clicks not the search, right? It's hard to compare these values without specifics (which are for good reasons not allowed). I have a #1 listing within one higher up, semi competitive category since more than three years and never received more than 350 visitors A YEAR! So in my eyes 1050 in one month is very very much. You see it's pretty relative.

Beside the popularity of a category it also depends on the title and description of a listing and how "polluted" the category is by ads and sourroundings ...

[Tomas]

It is hard to tell how many is enough. For example: if keyword is very specific "very rare widget" and you get 50 visitors a day from google and you get 5 contracts a month worth $20K. That could be enough.

So you have to decide, if it is enough for you.