User talk:Altarbey: Difference between revisions

Thanks for the edits. Out of curiosity, do you have any statistics on how many times have the Turkish translations been visited? [[User:Altarbey|Altarbey]] ([[User talk:Altarbey|talk]]) 16:34, 2 July 2013 (PDT)

:hi Alterbey, it takes some time for traffic to build up as people find the link and start linking to it (depending on the topics popularity as well). For the combined views of those 3 fairly recent articles ([http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Category:T%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e_%28Turkish%29]) right now its about 500 views a month and increasing, the majority of them going to 72 virgins for over 400 views a month on that article alone (the English version gets that many in a day, which is our 3rd most popular page on the site). Search engines rank pages based on how many times they have been linked on other sites and which sites they were linked from. You can expect not much traffic for a recent page but as time goes the rank goes up as people notice and start linking to it and traffic increases. If you want to do articles which get more views you can chose topics which you think people are more likely to link on forums or are searching for (depends on the stuff that people talk about; women's rights, Aisha, Muslim Statistics etc). Don't be discouraged if you think the views are not as high as expected. Some of my favorite pages on the site (e.g. [[Farsideology]]) don't get a lot of traffic but thats ok. For all the pages on the site excluding the Russian site, we're getting around 12K views a day nowadays. Yea, so if you plan on doing new translations, I would say think about topics that you think people 'need' information on the most. Say if you had 10 popular topics like the 72 virgins, you may be getting 4000 views a month for that group (however again, the 72V may be the most popular page from that group). Articles about Islam and Science might also be a good choice for an existing Muslim population which believes Islam's connection with science. You'll see there will be a higher view rate after say 6 more months (a good number to notice a reliable difference).  --[[User:Axius|Axius]] ([[User talk:Axius|talk]]) 17:18, 2 July 2013 (PDT)