After A Full Month Of Visit Sagada

 

Visit Sagada was a project that was started almost purely on impulse and one month in, I’m just startled and amazed at how great the reception has been. Despite minimal press from other bloggers, Visit Sagada has definitely taken off quite nicely. It’s actually quite refreshing that most of the traffic, comments and e-mails that we get at Visit Sagada don’t come from the people within the blog community. Though it’s always nice to be commended by your peers, it’s even better to help other people with useful information. Time and time again, people at online forums have struggled to plan their trips to Sagada due to the lack of organization of the information available online. With Visit Sagada now existent, it’s great to hear stuff about how we’ve made it a bit easier for those who brave the trip up north.

 

 

For the month of March, the site amassed a great number of unique hits, total page views and pages/visit ratio. We’re talking about a month-old site here! Though numbers in the thousands are always impressive, I think the 5.65 pages/visit stat is the most flattering. The average visitor also spends almost 10 minutes browsing the pages of Visit Sagada.

 

 

 

Week per week, Visit Sagada has shown increased readership in terms of hits. It’s interesting to note that both the e-mail and RSS subscribers for the site don’t even add up to a dozen people. It’s likely that Visit Sagada is talking to a different demographic - they’re not the technophiles or the bloggers; they’re adventurous individuals who don’t really give a crap about SEO and other blog buzzwords. I fought long and hard to make sure that Visit Sagada would stay friendly and relevant to this niche and it’s great that I put my foot down. I was right all along. Visit Sagada peaked at 1003 unique hits last week and hopefully next week will be just as good.

 

I did say a while ago that we’re not exactly that well-connected in terms of links from other blogs. Where do we get our hits from then?

 

 

 

According to Analytics, Google is our number one referrer. Being the 6th search result for the keyword “Sagada” out of 349,000 sure helps. A good number of visitors have also found us via Yahoo search. Ironically, we’re not even on the first page pages in Yahoo for the same keyword. It’s quite interesting that over 220 chose to sift through everything and find us near the bottom of the heap. Not surprisingly, forums (Pinoyexchange, FemaleNetwork and TipidPC) also account for a lot of the hits. As you can see, bloggers don’t really like Visit Sagada - Twitter referrals are low and those who click it only look at 3 pages on average - almost half the general mean. Thank you to Ferdz for being one of the few bloggers to support us. Most of his referrals have been from overseas so it’s great that he’s helping us reach a wider audience.

 

As expected, most of the traffic is from the Philippines. Almost 82% of the unique hits were made by IP addresses identified as Filipino in origin. Other major sources of traffic include the US, Singapore and Germany. I’ve also been swamped with t he amount of mail we’ve been getting. It’s great to get messages from all over! I enjoy responding to their questions and making them more at ease with the idea of going to Sagada.

 The Visit Sagada team - especially Angel and I — are truly honored  to have your support and confidence in this early stage of our existence online.

 

The site has definitely taken off much better than I expected. Here’s to an even better April for Visit Sagada!

 

Cheers!

 

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