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Along for the Ride! updates for June/July by Mar Matthias Darin June and July have been busy months for "Along for the Ride!" I have spent the last two months collecting data specifically to address a question asked by an AFTR member, Traveling Suitcase. Before I get to the question, here are the AFTR statistics for June and July:
Nice! The number keep climbing! The difference between June and July is mostly because of new members. However; some of those wonderful growth statistics are because some of the current AFTR members have switched to the Embed method of AFTR. That is exactly what Traveling Suitcase asked, How do I know the Embed generates at least 10 times the traffic of all the other AFTR methods combined? The answer to this great question is as follows. The MouseOver or the Click version only convert your visitors to AFTR visitors when they interact with the widget. The Embed converts all of your visitors to AFTR visitors, but only AFTER your page loads completely. Because of the way the AFTR Embed widget loads, hit and run visitors never see the widget, therefore they don't skew the statistics. This keeps the Embed traffic extremely targeted to consistent readers. Statistically, visitors only interact with the AFTR widget about 1/10th of the time at most, hence the Embed generates at least 10 times the visitors. AFTR works by using reverse logic, the more visitors you share, the more hits you'll gain from all the members in the AFTR system. You'll be able to see the traffic on the members' page and from your own page tracking tools. Now to prove it by the actual numbers. I extracted this information from my server logs. Total AFTR widget displays (excluding the Embed) for the months of June and July are as follows:
Here are the Embed statistics:
The Embed generated 7,388 more visitors then the non-Embeded versions of AFTR. Thats 28% more traffic generated by the Embed members for June. For July, the differences are greater, 14,544 more visitors or 34% more traffic. Simply put, if every member ran the Embed version of AFTR, The widget displays would be the actual number of visitors. For June, that would be 520,136 visitors (7,325 visitors per member) and for July, 583,647 visitors (8,220 visitors per member). This is mathematical fact because the Embed requires no interaction from web site visitors. Because the Embed is so powerful is why I list the active AFTR members and have such an aggressive classification system. That way there are never any questions about the content that could be displayed. The AFTR Embed widget rivals all other AFTR widgets for generating traffic. So if you want high quality, high volume traffic, the AFTR Embed delivers everything it promises. Now for some minor policy changes. These won't affect most of the AFTR members. As most know, I don't send out allot of emails. I'm not one for abusing others email addresses with a lot of garbage. I send out a welcome and very little else. I have in the past, sent out reminders of the 7 day rule or reminders that a blog doesn't have the AFTR widget... Effective immediately, no more nanny messages. Its taking my time away from the active members and ensuring the content remains high. I don't want to be a b@st@rd about this, but enough is enough. Sites that join "Along for the Ride!" do so because they want traffic. I can't make them put the widget on their pages or update their blogs. Blog owners that fall into this category are only hurting themselves. I can't make AFTR any easier then it is. A blog owner signs up, puts the AFTR widget on the blog and goes about life. It can't get any easier than that. I despise nanny systems and I'm not going to allow AFTR to become one littered with stale content. I also don't like having to guess whether a blog owner has decided to withdraw from "Along for the Ride!" or has simply forgotten to migrate the widget to a new template. I've sent message after message to these sites and gotten nothing back. This is a waste on my time and unfair to active members that may have issues or concerns about the system. I am going to continue to maintain the high standards of "Along for the Ride!" and will continue support and assist active members as much as I can. But I will NOT allow inactive blog owners, abandoned blogs, or blog owners that withdraw from AFTR and don't even have the courtesy to inform me, to ruin "Along for the Ride!" It has taken me ten years to develop a traffic generating method as successful and effective as "Along for the Ride!" and I have every intention to make sure it continues on the positive path and growth it has achieved. 
Top tags: aftr, embed, visitors, widget, july, june, members, traffic, along, blog Comments from josie 112.201.16.119 I am very happy for all the effort you are giving for the development and improvement of AFTR, and all the traffic we are getting for our sites. More power! Comments from Mar Matthias Darin Thank you. Comments from WillOaksStudio 209.242.44.170 Thanks so much for all that you do. I really enjoy these widgets and usually click on them or hover over them where ever I see them. But if I'm reading your analysis correctly, I'd be better served to change the type of widget I chose for better results and better tracking. Comments from Mar Matthias Darin You're welcome anf thank you.. Even though the Embed does out perform all the other AFTR widgets, many blog owners feel that it is too large or otherwise unsuitable for their style and design, which is understandable. That's why I provide different styles, so each blog owner can choose what best fits their blog and visitors' tastes. The trcking doesn't change. The only thing that changes is the Embed maximizes AFTR traffic by converting every vistor to an AFTR visitor, but only after your visitors have loaded your content and thay have read it. I've made the Embed to be polite as I, like other blog owners, don't like rude widgets.
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