But then he just scrolled through the index-page without visiting a single post. Bad. Remark 2: Use excerpts to catch visitors attention and do not show the entire post on the index pages, which was my fault.
My visitor was suprised coming to google while using my site search. Why is he back at google, after clicking a search result of a google search to come to my blog? Remark 3: Use blog internal search engine if available rather than google By the way, I didn’t receive any adsense click by "Adsense for search" until now.
I added some nice blogging-features the last weeks like recent posts and next/prev-navigation links which he couldn’t find since he was just browsing through my index page and some categories and I have implemented them on the single post pages only Remark 4: read remark 2 again.. I will have to change that.
Not everybody of us can observe a visitor exploring the blog, but there are some tools which might help.
- Use adsense channels to see which adsense positions will work good, and which don’t. (read Google Adsense Webinar)
- Statistics of your site whith visitor tracking possibility like they have at statcounter will help to know how people will explore your site.
- To see where visitors will left your page by clicking on a link, use a service like MyBlogLog.com(affiliate link!). They do have a free service too.
- Show your blogto everyone you know and let him/her explore your blog while sitting behind your friend. Don’t touch the keyboard/mouse yourself!
Blogging is a work in progress. For everytime! You will never stop learning new things. A few improvement will burst your counter.