Re: 1.000.000 visitors on MCast
[QUOTE=Shiva;1090473]The system counts any user who opens the MCast page as a visitor; And since there is literally nothing else except music on MCast we can suppose that the number of visitors is equal to the number of listeners (or at least very close). Why would anyone tune to MCast if not for download/stream/podcast our music: MCast's music orientation is very clear, mostly quality dark & progressive house.
Dark music lovers throughout the word now know very well where to tune to when in search of such music.
Throughout the years, in combination with providing steady quality work and inviting world class guest artists we have managed to move form being a simple music platform to becoming a major reference in this type of music, especially that progressive house has been loosing ground to the electro/commercial music lately;
Our Djs stayed faithful to our genre, the listeners stayed faithful to MCast :)
And the fact that most of our sessions were reposted on other music sites here and there helped us a lot boost our audience from the four corners of the world; We have been monitoring our evolution very closely.
Concerning the comments, there is nothing strange; 5-6 years ago we would get much more comments than now simply because they were no extensive use of social media (Facebook, Twitter etc..). Slowly the comments have shifted from MCast to Dj's personal page/account on facebook or twitter. Personally, as far as my show is concerned, now I would get 3 to 9 comments on my sessions on MCast, but tens others on my personal facebook page or artist page; The comments have also increased but they shifted elsewhere...
All what we care about on MCast is to satisfy our audience, and yes Audrey, it paid off. :)[/QUOTE]
Ah thanks for the reply Shiva. Interesting. I admire your passion for what you do and wasn't being critical, if you re read what I posted I said "well done"
I'll re phrase the question with reference to your response. How does your counting system distinguish between "users" as opposed to bots, spiders and search engines? Reason I ask is I used to go out with a guy who spent all his time developing websites and was pretty good. When one of his sites got a million hits in a month I thought "wow, we're going to be rich"
He sat me down and explained (slowly, in words girls can understand) that very few of those hits were from people, it was mostly bots and shit.
So we never got rich and I dumped him lol