Blazing Minds Gets a Sudden Boost of Website Traffic

« Happy Birthday! Blazing Minds is Two Today Social Bookmarking and How It Affects Your Bounce Rate » Blazing Minds Gets a Sudden Boost of Website Traffic Posted by Karen in Blogging 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. Now 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. 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. If you enjoyed reading this post, then please remember to post a comment, Subscribe to my RSS feed. Please check out my other project Remergence Electronica Music. No related posts. Tags: Shrek Forever After, website traffic This entry was posted on Sunday, September 5th, 2010 at 10:57 am and is filed under Blogging. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Written by Karen (899) Published Articles Karen is founder of the Blazing Minds blog and avid blogger of all sorts of interesting and odd things. She is also a keen music producer and founding member of the electronica music duo Remergence... Link up with Karen at @BlazingMinds \| Google+ \| Facebook Tweet 42 Responses to “Blazing Minds Gets a Sudden Boost of Website Traffic” Will Twitter: noaspa says: September 5, 2010 at 11:50 am 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 Will recently posted..Noaspa News – 01092010 Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 5:30 pm Thanks Will, I do try my best to be refreshing and fun Reply Sahil Kotak Twitter: sahilkotak says: September 5, 2010 at 12:01 pm That’s great Karen, and good luck on future plans with your blog. Thank you, Sahil Kotak Sahil Kotak recently posted..Smashing Saturday- Link Love For Bloggers – 04-09-2010 Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 5:31 pm The future is looking bright with Blazing Minds Reply Ajinkya Twitter: AjinkyaForYou says: September 5, 2010 at 12:28 pm The birthday worked like a charm ! All the warmest greeting for your birthday and best of luck for your future Happy blogging Ajinkya recently posted..List of all Tools to Backup and Download your tweets Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 5:31 pm Many thanks to you for commenting Reply Sarah says: September 5, 2010 at 1:30 pm 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. Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 5:32 pm I’ve seen some strange search terms come in to Blazing Minds before now, but at least traffic is traffic Reply Sourav Twitter: titan7585 says: September 5, 2010 at 2:20 pm 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 Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 5:33 pm I’m not really sure of the time and bounce etc that comes from the Stumble views, I’ll have to try and find out, any tips Reply Cindy Twitter: z3olyte says: September 5, 2010 at 3:56 pm 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 Cindy recently posted..Enhance WordPress Posts with Post Layout Pro plugin Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 5:34 pm I try to just be myself when I’m writing posts, almost as if I, talking to the reader face to face Reply Tek3D Twitter: techwalls says: September 5, 2010 at 4:39 pm 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. Tek3D recently posted..Technology Highlights – Week 35 Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 5:35 pm Hmmm, I must try and improve my bounce rate a bit.. Reply Moonomo Twitter: moonomo says: September 5, 2010 at 4:58 pm 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! Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 5:35 pm Now that would be cool Reply Klaus Twitter: TechPatio says: September 5, 2010 at 5:06 pm 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 Klaus recently posted..Review- Bose QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 5:43 pm Thanks Klaus, now if I could keep it like this frequently I would be over the moon Reply Wayne Howard Twitter: WaynesBNP says: September 5, 2010 at 6:49 pm 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 Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 9:16 pm Thanks Wayne, just been over and checked it out, you’ve inspired me for my next blog post Karen recently posted..iTunes 10 and the Ping Social Network for Music! Reply Karl Foxley Twitter: fmsseo says: September 5, 2010 at 9:39 pm 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 Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 5, 2010 at 10:36 pm Thanks Karl, as I mentioned to Wayne, I’ve been inspired for tomorrows blog post Reply Dennis Edell Twitter: DennisEdell says: September 6, 2010 at 12:04 am You seem to do quite well with your post by post SEO, can you shoot me an email at admin @ dennisedell.com? Dennis Edell recently posted..The Official DEDC-Network Comment Policy Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 6, 2010 at 10:31 am Thanks Dennis, I’ve sent you an email by the way Reply Colleen Twitter: colleenlane says: September 6, 2010 at 6:56 am “…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. Colleen recently posted..Richland Wa Parks and Rec Offering Art Classes Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 6, 2010 at 10:31 am Thanks for the advice Reply Extreme John Twitter: extremejohn says: September 7, 2010 at 12:27 am You have to love the unexpected traffic spikes, congrats Karen and hopefully You will turn those visitors into subscribers and lifers. Extreme John recently posted..2011 Indoor Tanning Lotion Picture Preview Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 7, 2010 at 8:17 am I have got my fingers crossed that they do pop back at least every now and again Reply Martin Twitter: cornyman says: September 7, 2010 at 12:36 am 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 Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 7, 2010 at 8:21 am I’ve not tried Google Realtime! Must give it a bash Reply benwaynet Twitter: benwaynet says: September 8, 2010 at 11:55 pm 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 benwaynet recently posted..Affiliate Fraud Risks and Solutions Reply Mitch says: September 9, 2010 at 5:45 am 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. Mitch recently posted..How To Start On Twitter Reply Suresh Khanal Twitter: seommotips says: September 12, 2010 at 7:02 am 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 Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 12, 2010 at 7:56 am The rapid drop was due to the whole stats not been in at the time of posting Reply Ileane Twitter: Ileane says: September 12, 2010 at 4:00 pm 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 Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 12, 2010 at 4:15 pm Thanks Ileane, it seems that Wayne Rooney Oh sorry I mean Shrek, always get the two mixed up, is still a popular movie Karen recently posted..Blazing Minds Gets Top Article of the Week on Blog Engage Reply Karen Cruz Twitter: ygndblog says: September 12, 2010 at 4:04 pm Congratulations to you Karen on having the most engaging blog. I had to work that in some where. Karen Cruz recently posted..Letter of Resignation Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 12, 2010 at 4:17 pm And may I just say, very well worked in Karen recently posted..HBO’s True Blood is True Camp Reply bryan says: September 13, 2010 at 10:20 am 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 Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 13, 2010 at 1:51 pm Thanks Bryan, hard work does seem to pay off in the end Reply Justin Germino Twitter: dragonblogger says: September 16, 2010 at 6:34 am 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 Justin Germino recently posted..The New Twittercom Coming Soon Reply Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds says: September 16, 2010 at 8:37 am Thanks for the advice, updated the post with Amazon Reply Leave a Reply Comment Policy Important Please Read Please be aware that all comments made are moderated and SPAM will not be tolerated, make sure you use your real name (NOT A WEBSITE NAME), you can also utilise (YOURNAME @ BLOG NAME), if we deem a comment to be SPAM then it will be edited or deleted! SPAMMERS are not welcome here! Comments without a Gravatar may also be deleted! Comments without a first name will NOT be approved! Editors have the right to moderate or delete any comment they choose. 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