I’ve been blogging for a few weeks now, and I’ve seen a slow but steady increase in my blog traffic. Until recently, my best day had seen 120 visits, and I considered that pretty good for a beginner. I typically averaged about 50 visits a day. However, when I decided to post some graffiti pictures I had taken on a trip to New York City, it became one of the top posts on Wordpress.
I attribute much of the success of the post to social bookmarking sites. My pictures have been a huge success on reddit.com and StumbledUpon (although traffic from here inexplicably came to a screeching halt for apparently no reason whatsoever), and I thank everyone for the awesome comments you’ve been leaving.
One site I can’t figure out it Digg.com. As of now the post is one of the top 10 on Wordpress and I’ve seen over 3,000 hits since yesterday. However traffic from Digg is nearly nonexistent even though it was the first site I submitted it to. I have yet to discover what makes a Digg submission take off.
One of these days I’m sure I’ll figure out its secrets.
there’s no “secret” as you put it. its just that the people on reddit found your post good while the digg guys didn’t.
tats why its called “social” bookmarking. only if a LOT of people like it and vote it up to the front page, will it get the the kind of hits you’re talking about.
I am getting a bunch of traffic from stumble upon, digg has a culture and the top users can steer traffic and votes.
Interesting. Thanks for the comment.
Digg is mostly a waste of time as far as traffic goes.
Most of the time you will never get any traffic from it so just let it happen when it does and don’t worry about it.
There is another social bookmarking site that is a far better source of traffic and much more useful over the long run.
You will know what it is from your traffic over the next week and you can write about it (and thank me for the tip.)
It looks like we broke it. That site is down right now.
What site are you referring to?