I had learned many things about the relation between my blog and traffic. The motive of adding my blog profile to Google Analytics and the objectives from traffic profiling through data analyzation.
In my learning process, what I found the most importantly is the "Traffic Sources" overview, where I can analyze the trend of traffic inflow from various sources; Search Engines, Referring Sites, Direct Traffic, and Others.
The above pie-chart is displaying a true data of this blog summarized by Google Analytics from 2009 Nov 20 - 2010 Nov 20. It's very obvious each portion determined the level of my blogging activity as input in receiving traffic as output.
SEARCH ENGINES
I have verified blog ownership at Google Webmaster Tools also successfully submitted Sitemap. Including the basic thing for Submit URL to Google.
I verified my blog because only verified blog/site owner can see information about how Google crawls, indexes and ranks my blog/site.
Secondly, I can see how many people found my blog/site in search results, and how many people clicked on it.
Thirdly, the operating system will tell me if it detects that my blog/site has malware or generates errors.
Finally, the operating system track links from all over the web, and it will shows me who added a link to my site.
About Sitemap that I've submitted and I am really weal after it had been approved, it allows me to see how many pages the operating system added to the index.
REFERRING SITES
This is to tell why I participated in numerous and various online social network sites, forum sites, community sites, organizational sites, and including commenting others' blog/site; this type of e-activity able to generates backlink to my blog/site while enjoying more numbers of "Inbound Link" to rank my blog/site higher at Google PageRank.
DIRECT TRAFFIC
I did it by embedding text link which is the inserted/registered link is my blog/site URL. at my email signature part. Also in forum site I embedded it at the signature section whenever applicable or got chance to do it.
To my other blogs related to advertising conventional and digital products, I used Google AdWords and local newspapers.
OTHERS
This category is in ambiguous manner (my opinion), but I am very sure part of it, the traffic inflow came from my displayed Quick Response (QR) code.
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