Title: Measuring the impact of Bitvisitor Post by: jade087 on April 08, 2013, 10:06:07 PM When I was first starting out with BTC I found Bitvisitor (http://bitvisitor.com) was a good way to slowly accumulate BTC (not to mention spam my wallet with transactions that were barely enough to cover tx fees ;)) so, with my new site Metadice (http://metadice.com), I was wondering how effective it would be as a marketing tool... I thought I'd share the results of my experiment.
Firstly the processing step was pretty quick. It seemed to rely on zero-confirmations, and cost me 0.031 BTC for 1000 visitors (I spent 0.062 BTC for 2000 visitors). Secondly, I found out the hard way that my site was not yet optimised enough for that many visitors ;) some quick terrifying Google and IRC searching later, I had tweaked Apache2's settings correctly, and put learning Nginx on my todo list. These are the results from Google Analytics:
So I think Bitvisitor is a good way to get a bunch of traffic, although it probably matches BTC demographics closely, most users will just ignore the page content, and very few will actually interact. |