Drupal-Powered Google Juice

I posted my sitemeter icon directly onto this domain last week and was surprised to see just how many people were browsing this site. It turns out that I'm getting around 40-50 hits a day now that I'm on Drupal, where I was just getting 9-12 back when I was on Movable Type.

Why? It appears that Drupal is much more optimized for search engine crawlers as echoed by this post on the Drupal site: Search engines love Drupal.

It's also attributable to the content about the media and Iraq I've written is still very relavant to what people are looking for on the Internet, and my blog posts seem to have compelling enough titles for people to click on them. Jay Rosen admitted at Blogercon III that most of his traffic comes from Google, and I'm adopting his type of deep thinking blogging strategy rather than a more AP-like Instapundit or Atrios...

It's pretty interesting to see what type of Google searches people do to end up on EchoChamberProject.com. It's also interesting to see which pages they enter the site on.

I need to go back and clean up the links in the archives because I assumed that no one would be reading these posts -- But I didn't realize that I'd be getting such a traffic boost from Google.

I just did a quick audit to see that everyone of my blog posts has been viewed at least 4 times, and many more have been viewed more than a dozen times. So random traffic appears to be ramping up, and it means that I should get around to fixing a lot of the broken links left over from the transfer over from Movable Type.

It's also a promising sign that I'm getting more regular readers as evidenced by the http://www.echochamberproject.com/blog page is the most popular page that's being viewed.