Tuesday
Over 80,000 Hits From Stumbleupon
I know that I mentioned Stumbleupon in my last post and said that it's possible to get an extra 1000 visits from them via their website. However, for one of my posts on 67 Not Out I've now had over 81 thousand hits over the last seven days - see stats below. This has given me massive traffic - at least for the blog concerned. As you will see from the stats below the blog had 37290 visitors yesterday and 51840 page views. For the previous day it was 26847 and 35882.  I'm not for one minute suggesting that this can be achieved all the time but it does indicate the power of Stumbleupon as a traffic generating tool. I've heard people say negative things like, "Yea, but it isn't good traffic, it's not targeted." To this I'd simply say, "Rubbish!" Sure some of the readers won't be ideal, some might well hate what they find, but there will be some who like the blog, will subscribe and will even link to you. That has to be nothing but good. Because of Stumbleupon I've also had hits from Facebook and other blogs and websites which have happened all by themselves. I can't honestly tell you why this particular post took off in the way it did. Could well be just luck but it's good to know that this can happen and if it doesn't you should still get a few hits. I'm now looking at Twitter as a traffic generating tool. Not too convinced about this but at the moment I'm trying to build my followers. So far I've gone from nil to over 700 followers. I'm joining lists where people say that if you will follow them on Twitter they will also follow you back. I can't say yet if this will be of benefit and will get back to you on this in due course. Meanwhile if anyone follows me on Twitter I will follow them back. My Twitter link is @67notout - also why not leave a comment on this post and say you will also follow back those who follow you, won't do any harm. That's it for now, Good luck, Mike. Labels: blog referrers, stumbleupon, traffic, Twitter |
Monday
Sources Bringing Blog Traffic
 Following on from my last post Stumbleupon is now getting much better results for 67 Not Out than with Reddit. The stats above show referrals from them for the last month - this works out at about 890 per week or 127 daily. As I've written previously most blog directories don't bring in many referrals, if any, though their inbound links are useful towards search engine ratings. I have, however, been getting referrals okay from blogtopsites - nothing massive but a worthwhile number. She Told Me is also sending referrals and is useful for getting a bit of publicity for individual blog posts. It appears that you can enter posts everytime you publish a new one. As with any blog it's always useful to leave links wherever you can - even if they are only likely to bring in an extra couple of hits per day. They all add up. It's no good just relying on one or two sources for referrals, just in case something goes wrong and the hits drop off dramatically. Good luck with your blogging, Mike. Russian Secret Device Stores Psychic Energy Labels: blog referrers, Reddit, Referrals, She Told Me, stumbleupon |