2008.05.21
Traffic increase, overnight
My kids came rushing over to see why I proclaimed “Holy Moly!” at 7:30am this morning, and I showed on my statistics page on the back-end of my website that I got 503 unique visitors to my site yesterday! My 5yo didn’t care much and my 8 year old was impressed for 15 seconds but they were both much more eager to see if they won the toys they bid on from ebay last night.
It’s really quite incredible to me and not because all of a sudden I got a ton of business from this - I did not - but it’s the way in which it happened and proof of the power of networking on the net. And it was just from a nice guy I met on Twitter who stumbled my blog post from yesterday.
It happened to my dad’s blog after he was featured on CBC’s Compass, their national website and radio show. A tipping point.
The question is, how do you sustain that volume of traffic. Today my blog is back to the normal numbers. I have a few ideas that I’m going to spend some time cultivating so that my wonderful clients benefit!!
May 28th, 2008 at 4:35 am
Hey! Congrats on the spike!
Good news is, your rss count must have jumped a bit if at least some of them stayed around to see what else your blog had to offer.
Bad news is, most of them will never come back.
So the questions you are faced with right now are two -
“Do I want to write more articles to convert people into full-time subscribers?”
or;
“How do I get back the ones who may otherwise never come back?”
For the first one, look at the link(s) they all came from. Try getting links from the same or similar sources. In addition, see keywords they searched for before landing on your post and write more articles on similar topics.
For the second one, find ways of grabbing the attention of first time visitors. Go to any post on your blog and imagine you just got there by accident. Does the page tell you something about the blog’s overall nature? Does it invite you to explore? Does it offer you something you will not be able to resist?
These are no answers. But don’t stop looking for the ones that suit you best.
I know that “Holy Moly!” feeling.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
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