Chinalyst promoting the China blogosphere : Testimonial from PanAsianBiz

Chinalyst has been running for almost a year now, first setup to find a way to help boost the China related blogs that were scattered all over the web. Chinalyst has grown steadily to include hundreds of subscribed readers and thousands of visitors every week. My goal is that all this reader base and traffic will be driven back to the China blogosphere.

To get some feedback, I asked a few bloggers to share some of their stats with me about Chinalyst. Some stats, like readers coming in from Chinalyst's RSS, can not be measured, but it is possible to get a feel of the traffic coming in from the actual site.

Bill of PanAsianBiz, a China-related problogger with an extremely popular blog, has been kind enough to be the first to share some of his stats and thoughts about Chinalyst:

According to Google Analytics - from July 4th - Sep. 4th I had 1,060 traffic sources for my blog... Chinalyst was the sixth top referring site.

Chinalyst sent me 1,892 visitors (1.2%) who viewed an average of 2.57 pages. The page view figure is tops among all of the referrals.

Chinalyst visitors to my site spent an average of 4:14 on the site, a full one minute more than the second longest referrer. One in five of the visitors are returnees, third best among my referring sites.

Chinalyst visitors have the lowest bounce rate....in  other words they come looking and find what it is they want...

All in all, Chinalyst is a great source for bringing traffic to my site.

Bill further adds that ...

One of the best things I have gained from Chinalyst, however, is NOT the traffic...but the exposure to other China related sites in English...I have been doing a series introducing those sites that were the top ten in the various categories of the recent blog awards...and it seems my readers are happy to know what else there is to read.

I appreciate Chinalyst being a gathering point for bloggers focused on China.

Bill has enabled the Adsense revenue sharing feature in Chinalyst and adds that Chinalyst brings in over 3US$ a week in Adsense earnings. It's nothing big, but it might be nice to get a few beers from Chinalyst every once in a while.

These are surprisingly great stats. If you combine incoming traffic from the site, the incoming traffic from the RSS feed readers, the Search Engine Optimization boost with incoming links, and the side beer-money, I believe that Chinalyst does do a little for the China blogosphere. I pointed out to Bill that I believe his stats would be even more impressive if he would use summary feeds instead of full text feeds on Chinalyst, as suggested in the Chinalyst guides.

So, if you have some interesting Chinalyst stats from your China blog, please do share those with me. If you have any ideas or requests, I'm very interested.