Comments on: Reflections on Sources of Traffic

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:28:33 +0000

Did I mention that you disgust me? =)

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:24:28 +0000

I can only imagine getting that kind of traffic. I am the master!

No really, I can see how the cycle goes. That’s interesting. I guess it all depends on who stumbles upon your prolific post, eh?

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By: WebMetricsGuru

WebMetricsGuru — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:03:20 +0000

Driving traffic to your Website or Blog during a Holiday…

Conversionrater has an post about what do when traffic drops during a holiday (like today) to drive more traffic to your websites or blogs – I think it’s a good post and builds on ideas I had but never fully……

By: Getting a Holiday Explosion In Your Web Analytics » Conversion Rater

Getting a Holiday Explosion In Your Web Analytics » Conversion Rater — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:22:36 +0000

[...] A great recent example of this is ProBlogger Darren Rowse who posted an article on his Digital Photography School blog about how to photograph fireworks, and then posted on his Problogger blog about the “holiday explosion” he got in traffic. He also followed it up with another post about the traffic sources and what it did for his revenue and newsletter subscriptions. What’s great about this is Darren is in Australia, so he’s taking advantage of a holiday not even celebrated in his own country, now that’s a smart blogger. This theory can be applied to almost every subject for almost all the holidays. A knitting site could have an article about knitting an American flag sweater for the 4th of July, a video game site could have an article discussing the games with the most firework-like explosions, a dating site could have an article about the best 4th of July date ideas. You just have to be creative. [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:19:51 +0000

Very interesting. I find that more traffic does NOT necessarily mean for more adclicks or more regular traffic, and it is usually the unexpected posts that do well traffic-wise. In the case of your article, great tips and you definitely deserve the traffic.

By: jhay

jhay — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:54:04 +0000

Yup, Digg really works in increasing traffic. I had a surge in visitors last weekend all thanks to Digg and to the gracious folks who dugg my posts. Now I have to focus on producing good content to keep em coming back.
Strange thing though, traffic via Google makes up just 8%, probably because my site is still a few weeks old.

Now if only Adsense clicks would surge as sharply as traffic….(wishful thinking)

By: Nicolas Mirkovic

Nicolas Mirkovic — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:47:08 +0000

Great job ! This also goes to show the relevancy of posting the right info at the right time ie “Taking great firework pictures” a week ahead of the 4th of July.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:38:51 +0000

Rob – The link you sent seems to be the work of a professional and accomplished photographer who started his site 3 years ago…

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:43:47 +0000

Darren – had you noticed this site?:

http://www.photobird.com/learn/top5tipsfireworks.html

Seems to have a lot of your content on there…

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:33:44 +0000

Amazing, as always. Just when I think I’m no longer going to be surprised by how well you’re doing, you throw another one in. That much success on a non-networked blog 10 weeks in? Wow, how do you do it? (that’s rhetorical)

If I could get only a 5% of your traffic on a blog that young I’d be impressed with myself!

Congrats, as always mate.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:48:18 +0000

Well anticipated, and you are in chilly Melbourne where there probably aren’t too many firework shows going on at the moment. Goes to show timing is everything.

By: risingsunofnihon

risingsunofnihon — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:00:29 +0000

I actually saw that article linked from the Yahoo homepage (I think). I didn’t put two and two together (I’m bad with names) until I visited your site. The stats you’re quoting arre pretty impressive! I think we all aspire to get that much mileage out of a single post. Congrats!

By: Terry Zulit

Terry Zulit — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:46:16 +0000

It really amazes me how some posts surprise me and bring steady traffic, yet other posts you “think” will be popular don’t result anything as far as interested visitors.

My motto….less thinking……more fluent writing.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:49:13 +0000

I think you are on to something with your holiday theme posts since it catches peoples attention. I look forward to future entries: “how to photograph pumpkins” at Halloween, “how to photograph Santa” at Christmas and “how to photograph drunk people” on Melbourne Cup Day.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:07:47 +0000

There’s definitely a gulf between different types of visitors. I get lots of clicks from people coming in to post archives directly via Google, yet NONE (whenever I’ve tested) from regular visitors / front page visitors. I quite like it this way though.

Seamus: There have been a few interesting blogs built around that concept. They were fiction passing off as reality. They were eventually found out, of course.

By: drew

drew — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:53:51 +0000

I’ve noticed the same exact thing with my sites. Digg, fark, etc will throw a huge amount of traffic at your blog, however the traffic is worth only a very small amount per visitor. Links from topic-related sites have easily 10 to 100 times the value per visitor that they drive to your site.

For example, recently one of our blog posts made the front page on digg:
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Looking_for_a_college_Choose_based_on_who_plays_the_most_Warcraft_
However the users left quickly and in general did not return. The CPM for the digg visitors was approximately 20% that of our normal visitors.

However when our main site was posted to the official World of Warcraft website, the visitors not only maintained our usual CPM, but many became regular visitors.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:16:22 +0000

Ohad – Most of these stats came from a combination of Sitemeter and AW stats

Seamus – I guess there\’s nothing to stop someone blogging falsely, although I\’m pretty sure it would be difficult to sustain. I find blogging tiring enough when I\’m being myself let alone trying to be something that I\’m not. I guess what I\’d say is that over time a blogger\’s true character comes out and people work out whether they are telling the truth or not by whether their story is consistant and whether the \’expertise\’ that they say they have is actually backed up by being good information that works.

By: Seamus Anthony

Seamus Anthony — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:54:42 +0000

Great blog as usual, I especially like your inherent modesty in the face of some serious rock star attention.

But this leads me to a question. What is to stop a blogger (and this is in no way an accusation just hypothetical) from just pretending to be doing amazing things (especially offline things that are hard for online users to monitor)?

I mean I read a certain personal development blog, and again no accusation, but I could start a similar blog and pretend to be doing all kinds of cool super-self-disciplined stuff – who, apart from my missus, would know?

Just a cheeky thought – maybe I should start the “Hey kids look! I can FLY! blog”

anyway, Best…