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.
