LeoFinance have seen a wonderful 28436 page views from Google in total during the month of August according to simpleanalytics. I publish a weekly report with the keywords that generates the most traffic, but I want to dig deeper into this, which is the reason for this post.
28K/4 = 7000
We have roughly 7000 page views per week, all from Google, and even though I personally appreciate all traffic coming to LeoFinance, the second best traffic source is Twitter with a total of 5972 page views during the entire month of August. Reddit brought us 2313 page views and we had 601 page views from duckduckgo.com. Bing brought us 314 page views. publish0x.com 309 and facebook.com brought us 301 page views during the same time frame.
That being said, the traffic we get from Google in one week surpass the traffic we get from any other traffic source in a month. Organic traffic is greater than anything we can come up with, which is why I truly encourage and recommend people to optimize their content. A fraction of optimization goes a long way on a place like Hive and it's communities due to all the content that is being published.
I don't ask you to become SEO experts or optimize everything you publish, but optimized content will lead to higher rankings over time. Higher rankings means more traffic, so even the slightest bit of optimization can potentially outrank "better" content that has been less optimized.
Traffic is vital for growth and we're already getting tons of traffic from Google, even without having focused much on optimized content until rather recently.
That being said, out of the impressive 28.5K page views we've seen from Google in August, 7903 of them where on this post: 10 Splinterlands Card Strategies for Beginners.
That post was published ~5 months ago and paid out 1.20 LEO in total. Now, I don't have much knowledge about Splinterlands, but the post contains referral links so I am sure the author has earned something from all the traffic it generates..
I don't think anyone feel it was rewarded enough, in terms of LEO, when we see the results. That's a different story though, so I won't talk about that. However, with amazing content that brings this much juice, LeoFinance is bound to moon.
- Another superb traffic source is YouTube, but we had a total of 73 page views from YouTube in August, so we are clearly missing out on some crazy traffic.