How many visitors do YOU think creates a successful blog???

[technicalbuzz]

Hey everyone. I'm fairly new here, though I'm not new to blogging. I was just wondering everyone's opinions on traffic. How many visitors do each of you think it would take for you to feel like your blog is successful? 10? 100? 100,000? What time frame would these visits happen in ideally? Daily, weekly, monthly? I'm sure everyone's opinions are going to vary widely. I'd just like some input from the community!

[basketofeggs]

Honestly, I felt successful with my first un-solicited visitor. (meaning through a search engine)

[ErictheBeehiveHairdresser]

I had the same sentiment when as basketofeggs had. There was something about receiving my first visitors randomly through Google that felt successful. Same when people started commenting on my blog and other starting linking to me.

I used to think that if I could get 10,000 visitors a month that I would be a success and now that I can get that every couple of days it no longer feels as successful since I can't make a living with it.

10,000 visitors still seems like quite a nice number but that still means that most everyone on the internet has never heard of my blog. I switched how I measure success to page views with goal of reaching 1,000,000 visitors per month. It's a lofty goal that is truly a long ways away but I'd like to feel that buzz of getting to it.

[ChickenFreak]

It all depends on your goals. If you want to interact with a community of like minded people, single-digit numbers can be plenty. If you want to get rich, millions might not be enough.

Oh! Sorry. You were asking about _our_ blogs. My blog's one of those that would be fine with single-digit daily numbers. It gets more than that, and of course I'd be happy if it got more than the more, but it's just fine the way it is.

[Bloggeries]

It all depends really.

This one month, I wrote a piece about living in Bali for $500US a month, I got 12,000 uniques and ~20,000+ page views but almost no interaction...

This month, I'm getting half that amount.

Frankly, I do not look at uniques OR page views as both mean very little unless your page is littered with ads. I look at repeat visitors.

I think your ball has started rolling once you ALWAYS hit 10-20+ repeat visitors a day.

Remember, those who blog, comment and post in forums are part of the visible minority. Most people are part of the invisible minority.

Welcome to the minorities club

[basketofeggs]

I think that there are two more indications that your blog is successful

1. repeat viewer numbers
2. time spent per page

So maybe a person knows how to generate that one time new visitor, maybe even thousands of times. What is the percentage of "be-backs" (those that come back over and over)?

Also, a person may have a lot of new visitors, but how long are they staying? If you have an average of less than 1 minute, does it really matter how many people are stopping by?

I noticed that now I have hit one month, my pages are popping up all over the search engines, where as I couldn't find them before. My viewers seem to be staying longer, which tells me they are actually reading the words. I'm not making much money, but I feel more successful with this than I ever thought possible.

Secret Basket of Eggs

-bryan

[downloadvyp]

i'd say 30000-50000 daily would be great

[Melody]

There have been some great answers in this thread: @Bloggeries - I like what you said about repeat visitors. I think I have only about 100 to 150 core regular, daily, repeat visitors, and that's okay by me.

@basketofeggs - That is such a good point about time spent on the site! I like to know that my average time spent on the site is fairly high because it means people are actually reading what I write. Right now, my average is in flux at right about 3 minutes at my site, which I think means that most people read one blog post and then leave.

My idea of how many visitors I wanted to have every day has changed with time, and right now, I dream about 500 visitors a day, but I'm definitely not there!

[kaseybaker1]

There is no number to answer that with. Everyone has different goals. You will be successfull when you meet your own goals.
If I had to throw a number at you I'd say shoot for 10,000 a day.

[sidikunplugged]

I'm at a little over a 100 visitors a day. My goal is 1,000 visitors a day.

http://cornerboyjazz.blogspot.com