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Getting 400,000 Hits In One Month Howto
By admin | March 29, 2007
To put this number in perspective: the blog has only been running since the beginning of March. Now 400,000 hits sounds awesome doesn’t it? Keep in mind that these are only 16,000 unique visitors, which is still quite high though for a new site.
I’ll show you my stats and share my findings, hopefully helping you achieve a nice run of traffic too.
The actual stats as of this morning:
Now, who are your best friends besides Google? Social Bookmark Sites like Digg and Reddit. They have donated a great percentage of my traffic. This does mean you need to post frequently though.
Don’t expect to just post one article and end up on their frontpages on your first go: Only one of my posts made it to the front page of reddit.
Be careful what you post to Digg since diggers have the power to get you banned and that’s exactly what happened to my domain because some users had classified me as spam. There is a way around that ban by the way 
(leave a comment if you want to know how).
The trick with these sites is above all depending on your location. Over 50% of the readers on BobmeetsWorld.com are from the US. As I am posting from Europe, the time difference is a very important factor to consider.
Let me give you a quick example: Last week I had a small contest where you could win $25 and I posted this late afternoon my time on the bookmarking sites which was between 8 and 10 AM US time. That got me 10,000 unique hits.
Yesterday I posted another contest where you could win $25. This however was 8AM my time which was about 2AM US time. This post was long gone from the new entries on reddit and digg by the time my biggest readergroup woke up and logged on. No Exposure.
Make friends amongst your fellow bloggers. They can help you with linkbacks and reviews which will not only give you a higher technorati ranking but also introduce your blog to their regular readers.
Check out bloggers community sites like mybloglog.com and outpost-earth.com
Get a feed so people can subscribe to your blog -converting into returning traffic-
Here’s a fact we all know: Sex sells. By the looks of it, the most read posts are either about money or sex. So yes, this will add extra traffic to your site.
Now what you want is to be able to get more visitors coming from search engines instead of having to spam the likes of reddit and digg. I have been told that you would want to have a sitemap for google to index. At this moment my PageRank is still 0 but I think thats because Google doesn’t caculate PageRank on the fly. This is a matter of time. You would like to be prepared for this so make sure you get as many linkbacks as possible. Link-love your blog communities and they will link-love you back!
Make sure that whenever you have posted a new article, ping the blog directories so they will actually pick it up. I use pingmore.com
Now I’m pretty sure there were a few more things I wanted to share but they have slipped my mind.
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Topics: money, traffic, monetizing, technorati, internet, wordpress, google, tech, blog |
March 29th, 2007 at 10:38 am
March 29th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Nic earticle
March 29th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Thanks
March 29th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
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March 29th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Yeah, you definitely pulled it off. I have been up for 3 months and can’t pull off more than 1500 uniques a month. Need a gimmick like that.
Here is a more personal question. So you gave away $25 in the first contest. Did you see that back in ad revenue right away or are the people who come to that kind of blog posting not giving you any revenue .
Either way, it is win-win, because you would hopefully develop some returning readers the other way anyways, but I am just interested if there is an actual immediate return on investment. i.e. I spent $25 and my Adsense was $25 that day.
March 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Neil, I managed to just about break even for that $25. I did get returning readers and people who signed up for the feeds.
Besides, I can go to a pub here and spend $25 on a couple of beers or satisfy my stats addiction at home
March 29th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Cool. Thanks for saying what your return was on that.
March 29th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:16 am
What web stat counter are you using? I find that the web stats on my host is ALOT higher that StatCounter that I use.
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:27 am
Armen, I use AW-Stats
How’s your blog going? I see that you just started out too?
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
It’s going ok Bob. It ain’t 400,000 or anywhere near it though!
Do you have your IP blocked on your web counter, or do you have a changing IP? Those figures seem pretty amazing.
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:38 pm
My IP blocked? I’m not sure how that would increase hits?
I can track down all unique IP’s and see where they came from and what they were clicking.
The 400,000 (600,000 at the moment) obviously were not uniques
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:12 am
What I meant was, by blocking your IP, you make sure that your own hits are not counted. If we are working on our own blog, we can click through it maybe a few hundred times back and forth. This is something which will corrupt our stats.
You’re definately getting plenty of attention for a new blog though. Keep it up!
May 4th, 2007 at 3:02 am
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