How to Explode Your Blog’s Traffic in One Week
September 8th, 2007
| Month | Unique visitors | Number of visits | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth |
| May 2007 | 296 | 613 | 1075 | 4897 | 94.02 MB |
| Jun 2007 | 771 | 1667 | 2702 | 10090 | 258.44 MB |
| Jul 2007 | 734 | 1705 | 3223 | 11747 | 267.12 MB |
| Aug 2007 | 806 | 2224 | 7407 | 30894 | 356.60 MB |
| Sep 2007 | 2895 | 3612 | 19484 | 91633 | 642.24 MB |
Traffic Rank for Dwwebsolutions.com:
Alexa traffic rank based on a combined measure of page views and users (reach)
| Yesterday | 1 wk. Avg. | 3 mos. Avg. | 3 mos. Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A* | 153,455 | 991,631 |  6,940,2544 |
Those numbers are kind of unbelievable to me as this is truly the fruits of about 7 or 8 days of dedicated blogging! Note the traffic numbers for September which are substantially larger than the previous four months and we’re only at Sept. 8th!
I have had this blog going for over a year. Unfortunately, I had kind of let is slide over the first 6 months or so of this year. At the end of August, I decided to rededicate myself to blogging in general.
I have never had a lot of traffic coming into this site. Which was overall not that unexpected or problematic, as a very specific service business who was not focusing much on the traffic aspect, I was pretty happy when I could land 50 new visitors a week. I never even bothered to check the Alexa rank or many other stats programs for it because as I said, that really wasn’t my focus.
But as I’ve been significantly increasing my efficiency in actually designing my client’s websites, I’ve had a lot more time on my hands for other marketing methods. I’ve always enjoyed writing, and I’ve seen what blogging has done to help my client’s sites in terms of the search engines too.
What Did I Do?
- Write! I consistently wrote at least one post a day, sometimes two. By far the most popular post was 60+ Resources for New Bloggers And let me tell you, that took some time to find all the resources, but it took exactly zero creativity…I’m not necessarily proud of that, but that seems to be the way blogging works. And even if no one else had looked at that post, I learned a lot gathering the information and continue to reference it on an almost daily basis.
- Don’t Be Scared, Get Out There Everybody talks about it, but I really believe it now…the key to blogging is to connect with other bloggers. Not only does it help in the cold world of getting incoming links (yes, it’s questionable based on whether people do-follow or no-follows). But more importantly, the blogosphere is full of amazingly talented and helpful people…not to mention, really fun people too! So get out there and read as much as you can and interact! See below for those who have helped me in my one week transformation.
- Social Networking, Social Networking, Social Networking Again, this is nothing new. But I have to put my two cents in that this is a huge, huge factor in what’s been happening around here. I feel compelled to say it mainly because I read a lot about StumbleUpon, Digg, MyBlogLog, Technorati and all the others before and thought that’s nice, but it would never apply or work for me. WRONG! StumbleUpon specifically has been amazing for me. I know different sites have different results with the different social sites. But in my case, SU has become a really great marketing tool, fun addiction and great place to connect with some really wonderful bloggers! I’m such a huge fan that I actually wrote a post earlier this week just pointing to a few great posts about SU from the week. Definitely check out the articles mentioned in that post for all the information you could possibly want about StumbleUpon. Or you can always add me as an SU friend and I’d be happy to help anyway I can!
So you can see, I really didn’t do any earth shattering…just implemented what all of the best have been recommending forever. But what amazes me is that you don’t have to be a professional blogger or blogging expert to be able to get the results from any of these techniques. All you have to be is determined and sleep deprived!
Only time will tell whether this new endeavor will have any real ROI in terms of my website design business, but I’ve already had several referrals from it…so my prediction would be definitely!
As I mentioned above, I have discovered a lot of great blogs and bloggers and online friends in general in the last two weeks or so. Here are a few…check out their stuff and subscribe to their feeds. They’re brilliant and even better eager to help!
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wow thanks for including me on this list! i feel really important
What does the “Hit” indicate? It look like a lot and I am guessing it’s not the amount of visitors you got.
I also check my stats from time to time and the “hits” say around 100,000 or more.
Hi WarriorBlog, I’m glad you pointed that out. No, I do not consider “Hits” when looking at stats. Although, I’ve heard different explanations of the term, it’s my understanding that hits solely means the number of files that have been downloaded or viewed…so that can include each element of your page, any style sheets, images, etc. The number I always focus on is “Unique Visitors.”
It probably would have been better to just include those numbers, but I was a little lazy and just copied the Aw-Stats table in full…plus, it adds a little more color
Great looking stats there. It’s true that most of the time, list posts get more traffic. Don’t feel guilty though, just think of your list posts as your bait .. once they see the kind of content you have here, they’ll most likely turn into regular visitors.
I have found that stumbleupon is a least labor intensive while still yielding great results.
Also, don’t forget about blog carnivals. I have gotten quite allot of traffic by simply submitting an article to a carnival every couple of weeks.
Thanks for the mention Dana and that is really awesome about your rise in traffic!
Ok, I am semi-new to blogging. I have set-up a WordPress blog, and have written a few articles. How can I generate more content and therefore generate more traffic? Does every post I write have to be original? If I copy from other blogs and articles, isn’t that plagiarism? What is the “blog etiquette”?