Here's a quick update from October including any notable highlights and lowlights. To compare how things are going take a look at the baseline with no marketing.
TL;DR stats for October 2024
- Unique visitors: 110 (107 New)
- Sessions: 167
- Average SERPs: 63.3
- SERP Clicks: 12
- SERP Impressions: 362
- Indexed pages: 483
- De-indexed pages: 343
- Backlink domains: 32
- Authority score: 2
Traffic and users summary
110 active users and 107 new users. The increase from September (19 users) was mostly from launching the website on Hacker News and Product Hunt.
Search engine performance summary
No real movement from September. SEO takes time and requires patience, and right now it is mostly dependent on building backlinks and domain authority.
Page indexing
There is a major struggle going on between indexed vs non-indexed pages. But it looks like the number of de-indexed pages has turned down. This is just Google doing it's thing because there has been no major updates on the web site.
Keyword positions summary
I've added 6 top level, short tail keywords that I'd like the site to rank for long term. Here is how that is looking now that I am tracking them in Semrush.
Backlinks and authority score
Domain authority is proving stubborn, remaining at 2, even though backlinks are increasing with referring domains at 32. I just need to keep working on acquiring backlinks.
