Thursday, November 4, 2010

Why are pages getting no visitors

So I'm checking pages, just to see how they are doing this year from last year. Some aren't doing well with a drop in page views while other pages are just new.

Rotor Diagram, 2 month old page with just 5 page views.
Sample and Hold Definition, I think another new page with 5 views.
Distortion Definition. Yet another 3 month old page with no page views.

I'm using Google Web Master Tools to check page views, and there are misspelled pages getting more hits than these pages. Of course the misspelled one just show a 404 page not found.

Again two more new pages with only 7 page views. The real issue is that half of those page visits must be from me. So the rule is adding a new page may not bring in any new visitors to the site, at least in the short run. Having to wait two or three months just to get a few page views takes a little planing ahead, or at least not really needing additional page views any time soon.
Shrouded Header Definition. does not appear to be index yet
Unshrouded Header Definition. may not be index by Google yet either

Besides being a new page it appears that the few pages covering MIL-STD-100 are doing the worst or at least showing a decline in page views over last year.
BNC Adapter Definition, with maybe 15 page views.
None of these new pages have any incoming links, so the low views also indicate that no one already on the site are viewing these pages.
SCSI Interface Diagram. maybe 20 page views.
They also don't appear in a Google search yet which also indicates they may not have been spidered by Google yet. Google reads between 300 and 500 pages a day and I only have maybe 2000 pages, so you would think that within a week any new page would be spidered. However this two month old page does show up; What is a Tee Connector.

So I guess my advice would be to wait six months before a new page starts bring in any additional page views. And that only counts if the page has something to offer, some of my new pages have very little text which is what the search engine needs to rank a page.