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This blog is growing everyday. New visitors click around, and read a few of these things I write, and some of them even come back the next day to see if I said anything new. If you do happen to be a reader of this blog, you happen to know that when I have a spike in traffic, I like to talk about it. If you’re new here, perhaps you should subscribe to my feed.

The “Abuse HostGator” post has been by far my most viewed post to date. The Post Views plug-in is showing 3,240 views as of right now, dwarfing the figures for “Ever Heard Of A Ruler” at 911. I wasn’t aware of this spike until just yesterday when I noticed that while looking my site over.

Apparently StumbleUpon users liked my rant about HostGator and the terrible time they put me through. I’m not sure exactly how many people actually gave it a thumbs up, but it was obviously more than just me. In checking my analytics report for yesterday, I was stunned. Even more so, today, I’m at 301 visits so far. I’m not going to tell you how much traffic I’ve had. I’ll show you.

776 visits, in one day. And to think, I got excited with 429. I know this all may seem rather stupid, me posting about such a small amount of visitors, but it makes me happy to know that all of my work is starting to pay off.

StumbleUpon is the one to thank for all of the lovely traffic. Over the past 3 days, I have had 1,287 visits. Seeing as how usually I get about 2,000 visits per month on average, I’d say that’s a big improvement. 1,195 of those visits were uniques, and they all resulted in 2,634 pageviews in 3 days.

Where’d My Traffic Come From?

Mainly StumbleUpon =)

If you don’t already use StumbleUpon, I would suggest using it. Not only is it great for driving traffic, but when you’re bored, you can just stumble around until your not bored. It’s really great.

Traffic, traffic, traffic! 

What Pages Were Visited?

HostGator’s rather popular, but, I guess that would mean unpopular wouldn’t it?

It’s interesting also, that the least viewed page, was my last post about my traffic.

StumbleUpon is a great way to get your numbers way up there, if you work the system properly. How do you work that system you ask? All that I did was sign-up and use it as it was intended. Perhaps in the future I’ll write a guide to using StumbleUpon for traffic. The best advice that I can give you, is that when you’re bored and not doing anything, click on that Stumble button and rate a few sites up and down. Also, adding a few friends wouldn’t hurt either.

The only downside to StumbleUpon traffic, is the fact that your large amount of new visitors are not going to be very prone to clicking on anything other than the stumble button. Why click on a ad when you can just stumble to an interesting site, you know. Adsense earnings haven’t increased at all in fact during this spike of traffic. Yesterday I had over 1000 impressions on Adsense, and 0 clicks. Part of that was my fault, but I switched out my CC banner for some Adsense, and I’ll see how that does.

Note:

Media Layer hosting is working pretty well. No “Abuse” emails and what not. Seems to be working out just fine. WP-SuperCache is helping out a lot with that too.

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