Although I’m officially on vacation and so working a little less on my blog things still keep getting better and better. I even found the time to write this weekly update again. If you’re wondering where I’m at right now. I’m not going to disclose my exact position but I reached: “51.39943, 4.21195” within twelve minutes of leaving the front door to go running. Take the numbers and paste them in Google Earth. If I had a rod with me that spot would make for some great fishing. I’m still on the fence about buying a rod.
Now you have the numbers for my aproximate position let’s have a look at the other numbers:
Average number of pageviews over this week: 230, An insane jump from last weeks 142. I hit a new record yesterday with 465 pageviews. The rest of the week was hovering around 120-160.
Number of subscribers to my RSS feed: 59, I still need to be pinched. Before you know it I’ll go over 100 if we keep going at this pace and as I’ve said before, when I reach those numbers the feedburner counter is going back on my front page.
Where the traffic is coming from: There is still that single blogpost that keeps generating traffic through Google. For a few days it was even on the first page of Google results, right up there with blogsposts on blogs like zenhabits. To bad it dropped back though, can’t find it anymore within the first ten pages. But what a rush that was, seeing your blog up there. Now to analyze what I did to get there and replicate that strategy.
The big spike yesterday was again caused by su.pr. As soon as someone writes a review for stumble numbers shoot up. Add a few retweets and another spike is created. So please, write a review on the normal blogposts (not the weekend reviews..) and help create those spikes.
What I have done this week to get my blog bigger and what I learned: The only “lesson” this week was “What a rush to get to the front page.” Now let’s do that again.
I have another set of numbers I’d like to give you, these represent the real growth of my blog.
The number of pageviews a month:
March: 145 (I started this blog half way trough March)
April: 1637
May: 2904
June: 3598
July: 1787 so far
Although I don’t believe I will reach my goal of 500 pageviews a month before the 16th of July I’m very happy with all the progress that has been made and all the awesome people I’ve come in to contact with. You know who you are. As I won’t be reaching those numbers any time soon I think it’s time for me to just transfer the blog to it’s own domain somewhere in the near future (this month) and build from there.
A last note: I’ve started another blogging project together with LP and CN. It’s really in it’s infancy at the moment (Only two blogposts, both by LP) so I won’t disclose exactly where it is but it’s going to be great! All three of us are aspiring online entrepreneurs and we’ll be sharing our experience so far. Did I mention all three of us are taking part in Project Mojave?
I’ve been following your progress posts but I guess I am slow on the uptake. You say that Stumble is giving your blog the best boosts. I have been regarding Stumble as a kind of awkward stepcousin of Digg. I guess I need to revise.
Congratulations on your blogging progress.
Well, digg at times has generated traffic but through the medium of su.pr I can combine tweeting my latest blogpost and submit it to stumble. It’s becauseof this that I regularly commit a blogpost to stumble and get traffic through it.
Are your going to share the details of this breakthrough in a future update?
Well, it’s actually quite easy. Su.pr (something stumbleupon developed) generates short url’s you can use in twitter and on other places. But these url’s not only get you to the paged linked, but do so with a stumble toolbar in the same screen.
Follow this link: http://su.pr/25JgB6
And you’ll get back to this exact blogpost (the 12th weekly update) but now with the toolbar in place. People reading this blog through these url’s can now tell stumble that they like what they read. If they give it a thumbs up or “I like this” (top left corner) stumble will proceed with letting others stumble this exact webpage.
The more people hit the “I like this” the more traffic is diverted this way. Add a review (sometimes a reader does this) and even more traffic will come this way.
A brilliant little system that generates traffic, that’s not sticky but does get your name out there. And one or two viewers will come back.
Pretty neat. Thanks.
I hope this answers your questions? If not please let me know.