As you all know I moved nearly all of my Pokemon content to a new site called PokeFarm on Aug 3, 2007. Some of you may have also noticed the drop in traffic HMTK.com sustained because of the content move. I have no doubt that the traffic levels here will rise again just as they have done before but what I wanted to share with you today is the growing nature of the new site.
All data was generated 12-Aug-2007 04:13 MST and covers the month of August.
This data shows the overall traffic for the new site. Even though the hits are high the visits are low. Take a quick look at the amount of bandwidth the site is consuming as well. You can't trust the hits number because it also includes bot traffic. Let's delve a little bit deeper.
This graph shows daily usage of the site. Notice the unstoppable upward movement? Indeed PokeFarm is a website in growth mode. Do you know why it is in growth mode? I'll answer that question at the end of the article.
Now we have our daily breakdown chart. Here you can see the raw numbers for each of the data fields. You might be wondering why the last day has such low numbers, the reason for this is that the report is generated early in the morning and not at the end of the day so the day's traffic is not accurately counted.
Wondering about why PokeFarm is seeing such insane growth? There are two reasons:
- Many of the older articles that I moved off of this site were already indexed and bringing in tons of search engine traffic. When I moved them I also create 301 redirects on this site so that the search engines would be able to send the traffic to its new home.
- The new Pokemon games for DS have just been released in Europe and we are seeing a large number of European Pokemon players coming to the site to get rare Pokemon.
When you launch a new website it is always good to look at the niche you intend to fill. Even though their are tons of Pokemon sites on the net PokeFarm fills a new niche that did not exist with the earlier games. By adding Internet trading to the new games Nintendo has created a new niche for Pokemon. We jumped on it first and we provide a great service. We also have a great domain name.
Those are decent stats! I’m impressed! Now, if I could get a portion of that traffic..
I’m glad to see just how well the new site is doing! I’ve been keeping an eye on my Alexa add-on for stats, but some of them are still a bit jibbered because of how new the site is, and I’m still figuring out what everything is. There are definitely a LOT of people from Europe coming to our humble little site; I’ve seen quite a few people from England, there’s people from Ireland, Italy, just to name a few. I hope the site continues to grow, and as long as we offer a quality site (which we are and always will!) then I think the site will continue to explode!
Wow that’s a nice development. I agree that that site still can grow.
Well done thats turned out to be something of a master stroke for you, I really like watching you build these different sites, you have taken an almost organic approach as you have uncovered new niches and subsequently formed new blogs from your older categories…. like throwing water on a gremlin ;-)
Oh and it lets me back onto your TC list, I could not keep up with your poke crowd, crazy numbers, it was turning into a poke forum ;-)