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How many visits can I expect from my new Wordpress site?

by rms1
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We have struggled along with a Weebly website for 5 years. I wouldn't say that there is anything wrong with Weebly it's just that we never get more than 15-35 visits a day. I have had several SEO companies look at the site with a view to helping us but the general consensus of opinion is that there is not enough functionality to do successful SEO. So, although Weebly has been OK, it has it's limits and we now want to grow our business and not have to rely on Amazon sales as much as we do.

I decided to find someone to design a wordpress site for me and it should be ready to go live in 2 weeks. Apart from the obvious requirements such as attractive design, usability etc., our main requirement was top rate SEO and the guy who has built the site has built it with this very much in mind. We checked him out before we engaged him looking at the sites within his portfolio and talking to client's which he was happy for me to do.

My question here is, how much of an increase in visits should I expect from my new wordpress site. I am aware that things won't happen over night and there will be lots of work to be done by us. But I have no idea what is considered to be a good number of visits for a site like ours selling self-help CDs and downloads in a fairly niche market.

I have just looked at my Amazon stats for the last 30 days and from 1581 sessions, we have had 158 sales.

Any replies would be much appreciated.
#expect #site #visits #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Yvon Boulianne
    there's no way to answer that, it depend of so many factor
    what keywords ?
    what seo have been done ?
    competitions ?
    design ?
    etc etc etc
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    • Profile picture of the author DonaldRivers
      Originally Posted by Yvon Boulianne View Post

      there's no way to answer that, it depend of so many factor
      what keywords ?
      what seo have been done ?
      competitions ?
      design ?
      etc etc etc
      I agree with you man. Your site traffic depends on different factors like keywords, your site content, which types of services you have used for your site and which type of site you have.
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  • Profile picture of the author Noctilus
    It's impossible to help you if you don't give more info. To know why it's not working we'd have to dissect it and without much data we can't add our input.
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    • Profile picture of the author rms1
      Originally Posted by Noctilus View Post

      It's impossible to help you if you don't give more info. To know why it's not working we'd have to dissect it and without much data we can't add our input.
      I appreciate that I am not giving you much information, that's because I don't have any. I didn't say the site isn't working, it's not live yet. I was just wondering if, providing everything is done correctly. what a ball park figure may be for traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author serpyre
    How long is a piece of string, you can have 10s thousands visitors per day on Shopify and 100 per day on a Magento site with 10s thousands of products. You can't expect anything, it all comes down to two things - business seo and technical seo, however. The average WooCommerce site revenue is $50,000/yr, above that you need something really special, the average sale is $127 (Amazon) and a 2.5% conversion rate. So $50,000 / $127 / 12mths / 2.5% = 1,300 visitors per month. So 2-5x your current number of visitors, likely being on the lower end.
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    • Profile picture of the author rms1
      Originally Posted by serpyre View Post

      How long is a piece of string, you can have 10s thousands visitors per day on Shopify and 100 per day on a Magento site with 10s thousands of products. You can't expect anything, it all comes down to two things - business seo and technical seo, however. The average WooCommerce site revenue is $50,000/yr, above that you need something really special, the average sale is $127 (Amazon) and a 2.5% conversion rate. So $50,000 / $127 / 12mths / 2.5% = 1,300 visitors per month. So 2-5x your current number of visitors, likely being on the lower end.
      Thanks for your input, much appreciated.

      We have quite a niche market although we are not without competition. Our conversion rate from our current site is over 10% which I think is high. We have been doing what we do for over 10 years and have a good reputation with lots off 5 * Amazon reviews.

      If we could increase our visits 5 fold, we would be delighted.
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  • Profile picture of the author serpyre
    It all balances out to the same eventually, niche usually means higher conversion rates but much lower visitor numbers. As we said, we would expect the lower end of the scale but there is where all the factors come in.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoster
    None if you don't send traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author rms1
      Originally Posted by seoster View Post

      None if you don't send traffic.
      Now that really helps!!
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    It is your Google rankings that drive traffic to your site, not the platform you are using. So, if after moving your site to WordPress you notice an increase in your rankings for your target keywords, then you will gain more traffic. However, moving from Weebly to WordPress won't necessarily boost your Google rankings.
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