As most of you know yesterday was my blog 2nd birthday and I must say a big thank you to everyone who stopped by the [intlink id="happy-birthday-blazing-minds" type="post"]birthday post[/intlink] and commented.

Blog Engage Blog Forum and Blogging Community, Free Blog Submissions and Blog Traffic, Blog Directory, Article Submissions, Blog TrafficNow back on topic ;) Yesterday, well in fact the last few days seemed to have a sudden build of website traffic with yesterday hitting a total of 1,881 views and the majority of these views seem to hover around two blog posts: Shrek Forever After: The Verdict with 744 views and iTunes 10 and the Ping Social Network for Music! with 233 views, the rest of the views came from the rest of the blog.

The day before had similar amount of website traffic with the overall views totalling in at 1,334 views with the top two posts being: Shrek Forever After: The Verdict with 608 and How To Select All Your Facebook Friends When Inviting Them to a Page or Group etc with 182 views.

Website Traffic

As you can see for some reason, I not sure why, but Shrek Forever After, seems to be bringing in a lot of website traffic lately and it seems to be coming from StumbleUpon.

In the last 7 days StumbleUpon has been the second biggest sender of traffic to Blazing Minds with Google still at the top of the list of website referrals.

It is nice to see that Blazing Minds has become so popular over the two years that I’ve been blogging and that people enjoy the posts that I have posted as well as the posts that my Guest Bloggers have submitted as well.

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42 Responses to “Blazing Minds Gets a Sudden Boost of Website Traffic”
  1. Will
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    says:

    Hi Karen,

    Great to see you having so much success with this blog –
    I always enjoy my visits here, it’s a very refreshing & positive place methinks
    ( and obviously many others think the same!)

    Cheers

    Will
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  2. Sahil Kotak
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    says:

    That’s great Karen, and good luck on future plans with your blog.

    Thank you,
    Sahil Kotak
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  3. Ajinkya
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    says:

    The birthday worked like a charm !
    All the warmest greeting for your birthday and best of luck for your future
    Happy blogging :)
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  4. Sarah says:

    Thank you Karen! I admit that there is a lot of tricky things with traffic. For example I have a tennis blog in Russia and there is a lot of traffic that is illogical for me. Thanks again and good luck during your 3-d year of blogging.

  5. Sourav
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    says:

    That’s a great thing Karen. I guess some SU user with a large number of followers has liked the post. Anyway, just want to ask. What is the quality of the traffic from SU? I mean the time on site, bounce rate etc.
    Sourav recently posted..TnB Weekend Blog Revisit 4

  6. Cindy
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    says:

    wow Karen… its great to see your stats skyrocket.. must feel very fulfilling
    I always love your writing. You have a natural way with your readers :)
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  7. Tek3D
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    says:

    My traffic also rockets some days thank to some bookmark sharing sites. StumbleUpon is really a good traffic source although it decreases the bounce rate dramatically.
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  8. Moonomo
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    says:

    That’s great! I can see your “How To Select All Your Facebook Friends When Inviting Them to a Page or Group etc” being top post on Bloggers.com (http://bloggers.com/posts/blazing-minds-10936).

    Just dropped by to greet you on belated happy blog birthday of this blog! ;)

  9. Klaus
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    says:

    Very nice jump in traffic. It’s great to see those spikes every now and then but it’s hard to keep them coming as often as we’d like them to :)
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  10. Wayne Howard
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    says:

    One thing about StumbleUpon is that while the traffic is usually high in numbers, you need to check the time those people are actually on your site and the bounce rate. If the bounce rate is high and the time spent is very low, it could be doing more harm than good.

    Check out my post below where I examined the traffic I was getting from StumbleUpon and Reddit.

    Congrats nevertheless and I wish you continued success!
    Wayne Howard recently posted..How I Achieved Blogging Success In 30 Days

  11. Karl Foxley
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    says:

    I like Stumble Traffic although it can play havoc with your bounce rates.

    Congrats with all your success Karen.

    Karl

    P.s. Just scrolled up and see Wayne’s comment (and I guess what I’m saying is in support of his comment :) ).
    Karl Foxley recently posted..Saying Thank You To Our Top Referrers

  12. Dennis Edell
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    says:

    You seem to do quite well with your post by post SEO, can you shoot me an email at admin @ dennisedell.com?
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  13. Colleen
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    “…Google still at the top of the list of website referrals…”

    Search engine traffic will be your greatest source of traffic Karen, imho. We have struggled with where to place our efforts, and search engine traffic has been our greatest asset. When you blog about these Shrek things (for example), folks will visit and if your adspace is tailored to these type of random visitors, you might do very well. Keep in mind, I am just an outsider looking in, but perhaps a consideration. :)
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  14. Extreme John
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    says:

    You have to love the unexpected traffic spikes, congrats Karen and hopefully You will turn those visitors into subscribers and lifers.
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  15. Martin
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    says:

    Hi Karen, belated congratulations for 2 years of great blogging on Blazing Minds!

    I bet a title like you choose today “Blazing Minds Gets a Sudden Boost of Website Traffic” gives you additional a new traffic spike as many blogger like to know the secret behind other blogger’s website traffic boost.

    In my case it was Google Realtime with the help of Twitter for my New Zealand earthquake post increase of 500 – 1000 % in the last 3 days (lol) – Stumble upon gave me 0 visitors…
    Martin recently posted..Pictures and Video of Earthquake in Christchurch- New Zealand

  16. benwaynet
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    says:

    Those are some good traffic numbers. Great job!
    Between you and John I’m just hoping some of your talent and traffic rub off on me :)
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  17. Mitch says:

    That kind of thing seems to happen from time to time. My blog got a huge jump last year for a couple of days that made absolutely no sense to me, and as quickly as it came it went away. It seemed to be one website I’d never heard of sending most of the people. It’s freaky when it happens.
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  18. Suresh Khanal
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    says:

    It feels so nice when having a heard of traffic soaring to blog. Looking at your graph, I got surprise why again at the last day it was a rapid down-fall? From 1800s to less than 300? Did you make some research on that?
    Suresh Khanal recently posted..How My Post Got Google Indexed Just in 4 Hours

  19. Ileane
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    says:

    Karen, I didn’t see the Shrek post. I need to go an make sure I give it some support. Congrats on your SU success!
    Ileane recently posted..How-to Customize Your Amplify Page

  20. Karen Cruz
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    says:

    Congratulations to you Karen on having the most engaging blog. I had to work that in some where.
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  21. bryan says:

    congrats karen on a job well done. it’s quite unexpected where the traffic comes from sometimes. I hope to reach your level when my blog turns 2 :)

  22. I had a very similar thing happen to two of my posts, one about Canon MF3110 printer and how to resolve with Windows 7 64bit Drivers, the other about ShinySearch. Both of these posts drew 5,000 visits per month alone. Then suddenly, POOOF, Google Instant search changes how SERP updates in real time, and these posts get 0 hits anymore, my blog lost 25% traffic from these 2 pages dropping of the SERP entirely as a result.

    This is a boon, but one of the big negatives of getting too comfortable or relying on search engine traffic that arrives on a single post. Enjoy it while it lasts, and in fact I would add AdSense or affiliate sale on the post right away while it gets so much traffic (Amazon affiliate Shrek Forever After), you may get a few commissions :)
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