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Today, Poetry 2.0 hit a milestone. In a little over 2 months, there have been 4000 visits to this blog. As you can see in the picture, most of that traffic didn’t come in until recently when I made the switch over to Wordpress. For all of you bloggers out there still fiddling around with Blogger, I know you love your setup, but trust me, you would love Wordpress even more.

A majority of the traffic that is displayed in that screen shot, is from StumbleUpon, and interestingly enough, coming in at number two is Digg. This surprises me because almost all of my stories are buried instantly because of dicks people on Digg who call everything “Blog Spam”.

I’m not sure whether or not 4000 visits in 2 months is a good thing, or a bad one. What’s the average amount of traffic for a relatively new blog?

Even though my traffic has gone way up since my first month, I’m not profiting from any of it. I suspect the reasoning for nobody leaving comments, or helping me out with my CashCrate contest, is the fact that most of the traffic comes from StumbleUpon. When you’re stumbling around you never stop to click on things in the site, you stumble upon the site, look around, read whatever post there is, and stumble upon another site.

While I appreciate the traffic and exposure that I get from Stumble Upon, I definitely wish those visitors would leave a comment when they drop by. I just need to come up with something different to promote my site. I am after all still kind of new at this blogging thing, and I’m expecting it to all fall together perfectly within a short amount of time.

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Today has been PoeticMoney.com’s best day ever as far as traffic is concerned. Can you guess who the culprit is? The wonderful source of my 422 visits so far today? Coming in at #1, responsible for 68.72% of my traffic today, sending me 290 visits, is none other than Stumble Upon. Here’s a screen shot of my Analytics report.

For some reason or another Stumble Upon has decided to send me all of this traffic. I am also interested to know if this spike of traffic is going to be the same as last time, and extend to about 4 days.

Why does Stumble Upon randomly send you hundreds of traffic one day, and then 3 or 4 visits the next? Who out there knows how Stumble Upon decides who gets traffic? If you know, please, leave a comment.

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