Average visitors' count!

Vera.Chandler · #1 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 05:38 AM

Hi friends,

Can anybody tell me what number of average visitors be there for a successful website? Just to review my own site. I'm planning to rebuild it. So I also want to know the major attractions a site should have.

Thanx.

siyab · #2 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 06:28 AM

Vera, the more visitors the better.

About site attractions, it depends greatly on the type of website you are building. For example, if it is about web hosting, then there should be reviews of the different packages provided, customer testimonials and things like that.

Every site should have the following pages:
1.An about page. An about page is important so that people can learn more about you and who you are. If possible, also give a picture of your self. When people will read about you and will see your photo, they'll probably be convinced about your services and that they are reliable.

2.A contact page. After reading about your services, visitors will probably want to contact you with some questions. A contact us page will fulfil this need of theirs. Be sure that the contact form actually works and that the contents (like name, address, subject, etc) are organized so visitors wont have a problem in sending their question to you.

Well, that's about it I think.

lisa · #3 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 07:27 AM

It mostly depends on the niche and how well you can convert traffic so there is no magic number. It also depends on what you define as "success". $100 per month? $5,000 per month? $10,000 per month?

But generally I usually tell people you won't start seeing regular income coming in until you have at least 500 visits per day... preferably 1,000.

Vera.Chandler · #4 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 09:40 AM

Thanx.

I was thinking just about 100. 500 and 1000 are high targets.

webdev · #5 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 01:15 PM

Quote:

you won't start seeing regular income coming in until you have at least 500 visits per day

Lisa, what do you mean by regular income? Should you see some income or good income with 500 visitors/day?

I'm always confused about the relationship between traffic and revenue. I get about 200 a day now, and i have no revenue what so ever. I begin to wonder if my niche is hard to convert or my monetizing strategy is not working.

So, with 200 a day i should see some income?

lisa · #6 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 04:07 PM

Your niche is very hard, I will have to admit. And that's why I really don't like that "how much" question because it varies. And Webdev, for your niche you may need a lot more traffic. However my fitness site only needed 2-300 before I started seeing an income.

I am not going to give specific numbers because I don't have the answers and I don't want to mislead people into thinking they need some magic number... or even range. I'm only going on my personal experience and posts that I've seen from other people in other forums.

Again it's largely going to depend on your niche.

webdev · #7 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 06:06 PM

yea, i think i realize now that it might take a lot of traffic to see some return as the niche is hard.

I might have to start looking at other non-tech related niches that i know of.

thanks again for your input lisa.

TechieGuy · #8 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 07:22 PM

Determining a successful site by the number of visitors is reather complicated. As other posts have stated, it all depends on your site.

It would be nice to make an income off a Web site, but for me I'm not going to worry about it...as least just yet. I'd rather focus on my content to attract the visitors, and then worry about making income. I think that is where many people fail.

When they focus on the income they lose focus on the real reason for their site, and they start writing for the search engines and not their visitors. They may also put ads all over the site which can prevent many visitors from staying and reading the content.

Just as when you bulid anything, start small, build a nice strong foundation (in this case with unique content) and then build from that. You will then start to see your visitor numbers increase. If people are happy with what your have on your site, whether it's 100 or 10,000 visitors, then you have a successful site.

webmaster · #9 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 06:11 AM

...begins when you free yourself from the need to earn money. This may not seem logic to some, but it is true.

Making money on internet has its own rules, and they are not listed in a $9.95 ebook nor can anyone on this or any other forum apply the same techique that works for someone else.

These are the rules that you have to discover by yourself. What I see a lot is people trying to make money. Even trying to make money so hard that they fall into traps that distract them from their path.

Visitors (lets agree we will talk about unique visitors), content and monetizing your website should live in sinergy and naturally flow from one to another. But creating such website is extremely difficult and involves lots of time, patience and experience (which again requires time).

If goal of your website is to convert a visit into a sale you need the following:
1. you need a targeted visitor, who will visit your website with strong interest into what you have to offer him.
2. You need to perform the promise of the link that the visitor clicked on (if he came through advertisement the content of the ad is on stake, if he came from search engine than the result in SERPs is the one)
3. The visitor needs not only to like the content, but also trust you to make a sale. Every marketer knows that selling to first time visitors is not a thing to count on for your living.
4. The visitor must complete a sale through your affiliate link, or click on the ad, whatever you want him to do.

The conversion ratio highly depends on your ability to create such page/site, and on stage of buying process each specific visitor is when he or she visited your site.

If you exactly know what your visitors want and have a thing that will totally satisfy their needs, get them to trust you and they are ready to buy you can have 15 visitors and 15 sales.

I have not seen such website, but that should be your goal: not to judge your success by number of visitors, but number of satisfied customers. YOUR GOAL should be to satisfy the needs of your visitors. Only this will bring you sales and will make the circle go round.

Thats where we come back to the first thought of this post: to understand how your customers think and what their desires are, you need to free yourself from thinking about money. You need to enjoy in what you do and genuinely wish to help people achieve what they want by providing them solutions, services, information. The money will follow, believe me.

webdev · #10 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 07:50 AM

great responses both techieguy and webmaster.

webbozz · #11 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 08:23 AM

I think the proportion between number of visitors and the income from the site varies according to what is offered. It also depends on the demand for the marketed things among people. My Swedish friend says sales usually drops during summer. Therefore, it is hard to say so many visitors will give a regular income. "The more the merrier"

Vera.Chandler · #12 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 02:17 PM

Thank you all for the replies.

Webmaster has really impressed me. Thanx for the time you posted that long infomative reply.

Thank u all.

I'm starting a new thread regarding reseller website. Expecting the same response there.

Lajocar · #13 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 05:00 AM

It comes all down to targeted traffic.

I'm going to make an example.

You can have 100 targeted (niche) visitors a day and make more money than a site who gets 200 untargeted traffic.

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