Written on June 3rd, 2007 at 01:06 am by Darren Rowse
When Was Your Biggest Day of Traffic and How did It Happen?
Reader Questions for the weekend:
- When was your biggest day of traffic?
- Where did the traffic come from?
- What (if anything) did you do in order for it to happen?
Leave your answers in comments below or write a post about it on your blog and leave a comment here with a link to it.
173 Responses to “When Was Your Biggest Day of Traffic and How did It Happen?”
Rhys
June 3rd, 2007 1:46 am
My biggest day for traffic was, strangely, a Sunday. I was featured on BBC Radio Wales about blogging (you can here it here).I really didn’t do anything to make it happen, I was asked to be interviewed about Welsh Bloggers, and I was there or therabouts for Google. It was a odd experience (going to the studio), but it’s amazing the traffic I got from it.
It’s not my biggest referrer ever (I’m on the Technorati Developers page, that sends me 100/200 visitors per day), but for a period of 2 weeks I got serious traffic from the BBC site.
Andrea >> Become a Consultant
June 3rd, 2007 1:50 am
May 4th — my post on home office isolation was featured on Lifehacker. I’m not sure how Lifehacker found me.
Chris
June 3rd, 2007 1:53 am
Reddit - of course it was the one more jokey article that wasn’t totally representative of my site’s content.
Arjun Muralidharan
June 3rd, 2007 1:53 am
My biggest day so far was in fact the day I was featured on the Problogger Group Writing Project (Top 5 Lists).
Major spike in my stats….
Shane
June 3rd, 2007 1:55 am
I recently tried writing a Social Bookmarking targeted article. I received a ton of hits (relative to the small size of my site), but the benefits were mixed. I worte an article on the experience, which can be found at http://twowheelsoapbox.com/?p=24
Greg Butler
June 3rd, 2007 2:04 am
My biggest day of traffic was when I posted a story about how I found out about my ex-wife’s death by reading a novel by Amy Tan. It did really well on reddit.com. The next best day was when I did a review off John Chow’s site.
Gerard van Enk
June 3rd, 2007 2:07 am
It was 21 november 2006, I created a Google Maps Mashup for the Dutch general elections (http://millionpieces.nl/stemlocatiesamsterdam/). One of the major Dutch news sites (http://www.nu.nl/) wrote about it and linked to the mashup.
mgroves
June 3rd, 2007 2:26 am
I was frontpaged to Digg after I posted a blog about “hidden stuff” in company logos. It was actually really suprising: all I did was submit it to Digg.
Also, I would recommend that you have some method to deal with high traffic *before* you get that traffic. As in, right now.
al
June 3rd, 2007 2:27 am
When I post video to metacafe about installation process of pfsense, firewall based FreeBSD 6.2. pfsense author found it and link it to their page. But still major source (90%) come from search engine.
Ollie
June 3rd, 2007 2:29 am
First big day: Monaco Grand Prix 2006 - Schumacher caused controversy, and because the decisions were being made outside of normal television broadcast times, more people were on the net searching for answers.
Most recent big day: Monaco Grand Prix 2007 - Lots of controversy again. Gotta love F1 when it gets crazy!
Oh, and Darren once linked out to me, which was a pretty special moment, and quite a big day. :-)
Tim
June 3rd, 2007 2:32 am
My Hot-or-Not Admin Panel WordPress plugin, which I posted July 22, less than a month after starting my first blog.
omodudu
June 3rd, 2007 2:34 am
I did a piece on blog activism. I wrote about Nigeria, and it made it to the BBC home page. I got over 50 times the traffic I normally get.
Rick in China
June 3rd, 2007 2:36 am
My biggest day was nothing to really celebrate.
My blog is China focused, and on Apr 17 I posted about the Virginia Tech shootings— because for non-Chinese living in China, sometimes it takes a while to access news.
I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware, especially Americans who might have friends or family that they might be worried about.
Add the that the early (erroneous) reports that the shooter was Chinese, and it ended up bringing a lot of traffic to the site that day.
But needless to say, that’s an article that I wish I had never had to write…
Ross
June 3rd, 2007 2:37 am
May 11th of this year. Traffic from digg and lifehacker. I did nothing. I was wondering when I’d break my previous record, which was Sept 28th of last year (a combo of digg, lifehacker, downloadsquad and a few others).
Steve
June 3rd, 2007 2:56 am
I have two days with most traffic. First was when I was ranked on MyBlogLog as one of the “6 Hottest Blog Communities” on April 17th and the other was the day I posted about Viralink with my Viral Linking post
noemi
June 3rd, 2007 3:08 am
It was the day after a very powerful typhoon hit my country, the Philippines. Power and internet was down in most parts of the city. I was fortunate to be one of the first blogger to post photos of the devastation. The leading national daily, Philippine Inquirer picked up my blog entry and posted it on their online site, the inquirer.net.
Manas
June 3rd, 2007 3:10 am
Around mid-June … I was linked my LifeHacker. ;)
Rob Witham
June 3rd, 2007 3:14 am
My biggest single-day traffic was in September 2006. The traffic came thanks to participation in a problogger.net group writing contest! I am still getting good traffic on that post too.
My biggest period of sustained traffic was in December. I ran a month-long series titled “Christmas Rediscovered” that generated some nice traffic.
osgeek
June 3rd, 2007 3:29 am
When two of my submissions were accepted in Slashdot within 3 days, there was a lot of traffic to my blog.
stephen
June 3rd, 2007 3:36 am
Yesterday… Though does it still count if my blog has only been up for two days ;) … yea, i think it still does… hey, if you want to make today even better… check it out ;)
Hagrin
June 3rd, 2007 3:44 am
Great post … I’m surprised at how much traffic LifeHacker sends to people and how that traffic seems to be more “valuable” than Digg traffic.
My biggest days have been when I released technical “scoops” on new products. My second biggest day was when I posted about potential Digg improvements and one of their staff circulated the link within their organization.
richard
June 3rd, 2007 3:51 am
group writing project and a bit of help from stumbleupon
Patrix
June 3rd, 2007 3:54 am
Around mid-March 2007 during the Cricket World Cup. A flood of visitors from search engines looking for free streaming cricket telecast. I had made a post listing all the different options that had worked for me.
Mary-Ann Horley
June 3rd, 2007 3:59 am
22nd May ‘07 was my best, I posted a slideshow of photos of a special edition Ayrton Senna kart and Australia’s biggest karting news site linked to it. I think I actually got more traffic the day before but I went messing with my stats and don’t know.
I’ve found that the wonderfully well-crafted opinion pieces, photos, reviews and how-tos don’t ever bring in traffic. Scandalous news, amateur photos, last-minute April Fools and anything that catches the imagination do, no matter how objectively good they are. But does the quality stuff bring in more repeat visitors and steady streams of traffic? I believe so.
However, neither group make me any (direct) money! I think the visitors that click on my ads are the people interested in leisure karting (I write about the professional stuff) who have wandered into my site by accident. I’m not interested in writing about 30mph corporate karting so I have to look on my blog as beer money plus exposure for my services for the industry: design, journalism, PR.
Eric F.
June 3rd, 2007 4:00 am
April 15th of this year. I’ve been writing about Saturday Night Live pretty consistently since last fall, and those posts have been ranking well in Google search results. On April 14th, I wrote this post and ended up getting a ton (relatively speaking) of traffic, virtually all of it from Google search.
I’ve found that sticking to a few key topics and writing about them regularly helps me rank fairly well in Google’s index, on those posts, at least.
It’s not a good idea to bank on Google traffic, though, because that can come and go depending on a lot of different variables.
Amaresh
June 3rd, 2007 4:02 am
The day I released a custom version of a WP theme.
Yesterday actually lol.
The theme page : http://zaldoe.com/themes
Today’ll mostly my highest, thanks to ProBlogger :D
Derrick Daye
June 3rd, 2007 4:03 am
This is a good question. All of the answers posted here demonstrate that you just don’t know where your influence will penetrate for big traffic on any given day. We focus on the marketing discipline of branding on our blog. Big traffic days have come from two directions, - the obvious sources…
Typepad Blog Featured Blog
Google News
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Washington Post
And the not so obvious - Intranets…
General Motors Intranet - 2 days of 6000+ traffic from a post on the auto dealer industry
Unilever Intranet - A post using a brand of theirs as an example
Bridal Industry Intranet - A post on Colors & Branding
Most unusual source with high traffic…
Aviation Week - Applying a branding post to flight
In all of these cases a meaningful and relevant post triggered the high traffic. The big takeaway here is to focus on one subject and be great at it. It will magnetize your blog.
Derrick
Roberta
June 3rd, 2007 4:04 am
My biggest day of traffic was when I published the lyrics to “This is my now” by Jordin Sparks before anyone else. The Huffington Post linked to the article. That was pretty cool, I got 1,000 visits in one day. I was happy.
Kris Karkoski
June 3rd, 2007 4:09 am
On May 26th I did live coverage of a UFC PPV and it was still my biggest traffic day despite crashing just 2 hours into the 5 hour event. Hence, that is why I switched to dedicated hosting rather than shared hosting.
Deborah
June 3rd, 2007 4:14 am
June 1st. I had one visitor!!! Yeah! I’m just starting out….
Rob
June 3rd, 2007 4:21 am
A useful list and a little help from StumbleUpon….
More details can be found
Enrique
June 3rd, 2007 4:22 am
I never had a BIG traffic peak, but I always assumed that when you do well in one of the most popular social networks (or whatever you call them), your article or site starts to show everywhere.
But that’s not exactly true for Stumbleupon. I wrote an guide about Digital Makeover in Photoshop two weeks ago and it has received more than 10,000 visits from Stumbleupon and traffic keeps on coming each day, and it is featured on the BUZZ section for Photoshop tag. Even though, the article hasn’t been picked up by almost no blog.
So, it seems that Stubmleupon is some sort of an island. At least in this case.
Thanks,
Enrique
Sean Fallon
June 3rd, 2007 4:24 am
I was recently featured on G4 networks Attack of The Show as a top tech blog and I got a big boost a few months ago from StumbleUpon with a post about a Lego sofa.
The AOTS appearance was especially important because the traffic was very sticky. Fans of that show are exactly the kind of people I try to write for.
ashok
June 3rd, 2007 4:31 am
My biggest day of traffic occurred when a site I might vehemently disagree with - if I read them - linked to me, but didn’t say anything about me. I was just part of a number of links of blogs worth checking out, and it was strange, because that place sent a ton of traffic, and I wonder what they were looking for. The post up that day was a fairly dense one on Aristotle, it wasn’t me ranting or doing anything stupid or easily accessible, even. (I’ve linked to the post in case you can figure this out. They sent a lot of traffic.)
JCM
June 3rd, 2007 4:34 am
My blog gets 150 visits and 100 pageviews (its an art gallery, with next/foward buttons, thus the high views), but I was surprised to see a day I got 500 visits and 8000 pageviews… which seems excessive when I only have about 100 drawings up.
Richard Watson
June 3rd, 2007 4:47 am
I got a review of my software on this blog entry:
http://gtd.marvelz.com/blog/2007/05/22/review-of-tudumo-gtd-software/
…and my server went nuts! So I made a beta available, figuring it was really silly to disappoint all the traffic. Had two other reviews after that, and a lot of “mindshare”.
Thanks for the blog Darren - really enjoy reading it.
Louiss
June 3rd, 2007 4:48 am
I make a post about paypal scam that some scammer wanna get my id and password. After that I make a post and digg it. Wow..Then traffic come like the water from the sea come into a small town. So in short, sometime scam can make a lot of traffic too.
Gabriel Topala
June 3rd, 2007 4:57 am
1. When was your biggest day of traffic?
May 24th, 2007
2. Where did the traffic come from?
http://www.winfuture.de/news,31925.html
3. What (if anything) did you do in order for it to happen?
Nothing
Petra A. Bauer
June 3rd, 2007 4:58 am
In last month it was the 4th of May. I am a German writer, with a writers blog, and the day before, I took part on an event in Second Life, initiiated by a writers platform. In SL we coul talk via Skypecast, and so I talked about my experiences in blogging as a writer. May 4th, there has been an article on that writers platform, with a link to my blog :-) That worked!
Another day with plenty of traffic, has ben when I wrote about a gig of a famous German band called ‘Element of Crime’. This seems to be my all-time top-post ;-)
Last week I generated more traffic than usual, with posting special writing-tipps. I make a series out of them, just as I learned it on Problogger.net ;-) AND I made a WTF out of these posts on Technorati.
http://www.autorenblog.writingwoman.de
Joanna Young
June 3rd, 2007 5:03 am
That’s easy - taking part in the Problogger group writing project, and making sure it was a topic with “blogging” in the title.
Joanna
Adnan
June 3rd, 2007 5:03 am
I made a post called 101 Essential Blogging Resources last week.
The post was Probloggered, Dugg, Stumbled, Del.icio’d to the Popular Page and Lifehackered and since then my traffic and RSS has been raised by a huge amount.
Henrik Edberg
June 3rd, 2007 5:11 am
On the second of May when I was mentioned twice on Lifehacker and also on Dumb Little Man, Lifehack and various social media networks. It was a very good day :)
Rich Minx
June 3rd, 2007 5:14 am
A few weeks ago I wrote a post called Money and Work Lessons From The Simpsons, in honor of their 400th episode. Somebody Stumbled it and caused a mini traffic tsunami. Guess people still love The Simpsons.
Dy (www.dyphan.com)
June 3rd, 2007 5:14 am
It was through the Top 5 blog postings from this site. I’m only starting out and only a few weeks old. It was a few weeks ago and brought in residual traffic.
Daniel Scocco
June 3rd, 2007 5:16 am
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/43-web-design-mistakes-you-should-avoid/
Posted it on the 30th of April, got stumbled a lot and made it to delicious front page. 25,000 page views more or less on that day.
Jeremy
June 3rd, 2007 5:16 am
My biggest day came earlier this month and was due to participating in the top five writing project right here. It didn’t happen right away but my top 5 post began to get picked up slowly on various social bookmarking sites, most significantly stumbleupon. Then it was picked up by Hugh Hewitt and Instapundit within about 24 hours from each other.
The publicity on those sites made it possible to get all the way to the front page of Digg. Unfortunately that was fairly short-lived as the surge of thousands of hits within a couple minutes ended up bringing my hosting account to a grinding halt.
So I didn’t do anything special, just participated in the group writing project with decent content and it organically grew into something that became fairly popular.
JennDZ
June 3rd, 2007 5:19 am
Mine keeps growing everyday. I started a blogroll for foodies on leftoverqueen.com and now both of my websites get lost more traffic and it keeps increasing each day!
Luke
June 3rd, 2007 5:25 am
The day I wrote a post about Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors. I posted a link on Truemors itself and then got some hits from Digg.
John
June 3rd, 2007 5:35 am
My biggest traffic days have happened when my blog was linked by higher-profile blogs. Twice it happened with Wonkette; the best happened on a Thursday evening, so the link stayed on their front page for a few days. I don’t generally beg for links, so I don’t know how they found my posts. The two carnivals I hosted have also been major traffic days.
Tom
June 3rd, 2007 5:41 am
My best day, by far, was my post recapping the first round of the NFL draft. Every one of my visits for the next two days (second day was most) was from the same google search or something similar: “2007 nfl draft grades.” My traffic spiked about 1000%. I still get a few visitors with the same query.
Azhar
June 3rd, 2007 5:47 am
1)Yesterday
2)Digg
3)Took an awesome photo.
50,000+ visits and 30+GB of bandwidth in 24 hours.
http://www.digg.com/design/Amazing_HDR_photo_of_monsoon_arriving_in_Mumbai_India
Hehe :)
Paul William Tenny
June 3rd, 2007 5:52 am
* When was your biggest day of traffic?
Modern era: May 25th, 387pv.
Old era: Dec 28 ‘06, 412pv.
* Where did the traffic come from?
Modern era: Google and Google Blogsearch
Old era: Technorati and Blogsearch
* What (if anything) did you do in order for it to happen?
Modern era: Misspelled Jordin Spark’s first name.
Old era: Wrote about Jennifer Aniston’s breasts.
The last two need explaining; I wrote about Jordin’s win on American Idol and accidentally spelled her first name wrong (Jordan) in the post title. Because no site with significant page rank spelled her name wrong, I didn’t have to fight for results in Google. My page rank of 4/10 was enough to get my post the 5th result on Google for her name…spelled wrong. This post has brought me the most traffic of any other for months.
The old era thing was a legal analysis of a copyright infringement suit against PerezHilton.com for displaying a still photo from a film Aniston was in that showed her bare breasts, a scene that was cut from the film. Lots of people searched for stuff about her breasts and technorati and blogsearch brought me 700-800 pv’s over the span of a few days from that one.
Not much, to say the least.
There was a point this week where I thought my /average/ for the week was going to equal just under that record, but the weekend falloff will take care of that.
Thilak
June 3rd, 2007 5:59 am
My biggest day of traffic for my older blog was on November 24th, when I reached Digg homepage (23,127 hits). Later on, I’ve been there twice, but I didn’t get the same traffic (I wonder why?)
And on my other blogging blog, It was during your last group writing project. (1492 hits).
BDoc
June 3rd, 2007 6:01 am
My biggest day(s) of traffic have come when I got linked to on Deadspin. The most recent big traffic day was this past May, the 14th. I submitted a post, and it got put up.
Connie Reece
June 3rd, 2007 6:13 am
On May 16 I posted my first audio file (a “podbit”) and used Twitter to point followers to the post. Brought me a spike in traffic. I blogged the answers to Darren’s questions here: http://tinyurl.com/2r6pmg
Chris
June 3rd, 2007 6:16 am
I got nearly 10,000 hits one day after I had incoming links (on the same day) from BestWeekEver.tv , Stereogum.com and Idolator.com
I’ve attempted to retain the audience, but haven’t done the best job of it as of late (as my stats indicate)
brem
June 3rd, 2007 6:20 am
It was the week following the Sept 11 2006 anniversary. I had found a new video of the two towers falling. The same week, a psychopath killer went inside a college in Montreal and shot people. A local / province wide journalist linked to my blog for these events.
http://www.martinbreton.com/2007/01/03/look-back-2006-regard-rapide-2006/lang-pref/en/
The day with the most traffic, I got 10x more unique visitors.
brem
Tim
June 3rd, 2007 6:29 am
For http://bla.st/ I received a heap of quality visitors after a ReviewMe paid review by http://johnchow.com/
bulut
June 3rd, 2007 6:33 am
I got nearly 9,000 hits last year, but i couldn’t reach that traffic again, and two days ago i moved my new domain, hits are rising up now even if it’s not a high lone like 9,000.
Side-Line
June 3rd, 2007 6:38 am
I revealed the reunion and tour of The Police + some extra details. It got mentioned and linked everywhere from Rolling Stone to the BBC, billboard mag ripped the story without sours so that was less funny… But I got lots of traffic and incoming links. It was quite funny as I got the management of the band on the phone to ask where we got that info from. :)
J-Ro
June 3rd, 2007 6:40 am
A couple front page diggs and reddits got a bunch of traffic. Also had a post on the front of digg and reddit at the same time. Also, getting links from Agonist and DailyKos caused a nice spike.
hoop
June 3rd, 2007 7:15 am
Oct 2, 2006 when I live blogged a basketball game
http://www.hoopaddict.com/2007/06/03/biggest-day-of-traffic/
Ali
June 3rd, 2007 7:29 am
http://www.everybodygoto.com/2007/04/09/7-things-you-dont-see-in-web-20-from-web-10/
Got front page digg, almost 50,000 visitors to it since April 10th. Though the page view plugin doesn’t show them as I installed it later on.
Lori
June 3rd, 2007 7:53 am
I have 2. Not counting the Top 5. The first post was What’s wrong with Today’s Kids? http://acowboyswife.blogspot.com/2007/05/whats-wrong-with-todays-kids.html That seem to get quite a bit of attention. And my 2nd was http://acowboyswife.blogspot.com/2007/05/where-is-womans-place.html . Boy did that one strike a nerve with the women. I got traffic from everywhere on that one.
M Freitas
June 3rd, 2007 8:15 am
We posted about a Sony Ericson Walkman phone (the first one). Yahoo! Japan linked to our page, at approximately lunch time in Japan. Sony + Walkman + Japan + lunch time seems to be hot stuff - more than 100,000 page views in a matter of couple of hours.
Koby
June 3rd, 2007 8:48 am
About an month ago, I got around 450 hits in a single day. I know that a number like that is small potatoes to some of you, but to me it was a huge number of hits (I average around 40/day).
The reason it happened is because I wrote a small commentary on the Fox show “Drive” and it’s (then) recent cancellation. About 1 week after my post, the news became widely known and a lot of people began searching on it, and as such I got a lot of traffic as a result.
The only reason I wrote on the show’s cancellation is because I liked the show and was sad to see it go.
Simone Chiaretta
June 3rd, 2007 8:50 am
I wrote an article with an How-to about ASP.NET Ajax, and ScottGu, PM of developer division at MS) linked it from one of his post.
I also posted about it on my italian site:
http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/piyo/archive/2007/05/30/79655.aspx
Christy Hammond
June 3rd, 2007 9:04 am
I run a Detroit Red Wings’ blog and was fortunate enough to attend Steve Yzerman’s retirement ceremony this past January. I wrote a lengthy post about the ceremony and uploaded photos I had taken. I received more hits that day than I usually did in two weeks. I was linked by NHL.com and some of the most popular hockey bloggers. Since that day, my blog has seen a steady increase in readers.
davek
June 3rd, 2007 9:16 am
My biggest day was the first day I put tags from both Blogger and the added html tags from Technorati on my posts. It was about Formula 1 since that day my hits have jumped from about 500 to between 800-1300 a day. And because of adding tags to every post now my blog should get over 30k hits this month I hope.
DaveK
Slotcarnews.blogspot.com
Chance
June 3rd, 2007 9:18 am
I run a visual blog, and this picture spread through myspace like wildfire and i got about 2000 hits in one day from it
http://www.chance1234.com/2007/02/stoicism-that-which-is-not-good-for-bee.html
Chris Baskind
June 3rd, 2007 9:30 am
The biggest traffic hit was on my current primary site, LighterFootstep.com, which is about sustainable living and the environment.
Lifehacker picked up one of our “pillar” articles and ran it the Friday before Earth Day:
http://lighterfootstep.com/ten-first-steps-toward-lighter-living.html
The traffic from Lifehacker is great: smart, involved people who explore your site, leave comments, and subscribe the feeds. We got maybe 10k uniques over the weekend, and are still enjoying the long tail.
That Sunday — Earth Day — Kevin Rose dugg us (thanks, Kevin!). It hit the front page immediately, and we were visited by over 20k Diggers in the first 24 hours. I’m sure Kevin noticed us on Lifehacker.
The Lifehacker article wasn’t an accident: I occasionally forward relevant articles to sites I respect. So it speaks to the human side of our industry. Getting to know other bloggers is one of the most satisfying aspects of running your own site, and those relationships sometimes yield traffic. We do the same when people forward great articles to us at Lighter Footstep. Done properly, it works for everyone.
Daniel
June 3rd, 2007 9:40 am
When I posted an article on my blog about the corruption and the bloopers in some television games on Belgian television. I added some convincing videoclips to prove the abuse and the lack of professionalism. It was my luck that a few weeks later, one of the best selling magazines in Belgium wrote a long article about the same topic.
Terry
June 3rd, 2007 9:50 am
My biggest day was recently. I posted an article on adsense video ads, and got tons of referral traffic from the google blog. I don’t want to seem spammy, so click my name if you want to read it.
Celebrienne
June 3rd, 2007 10:27 am
I run a celebrity pictures focused site since October 2006. I’ve had two big traffic boosts since then.
1.) February 2007: I posted a picture of a Disney ad featuring Scarlett Johansson who was dressed like Disney’s Cinderella. A few days later I had 20x-30x the traffic I normally had which came from a personal LiveJournal blog post about “Disney wedding gowns”. Until then I had no clue those types of “housewife” blogs have such big readerships.
Here’s the URL if you’re interested:
http://celebrians.com/scarlett-johansson-a-cinderella-story-potw-1.html
I still get a decent amount of traffic to that blog post.
2.) May 29, 2007: This was my second traffic spike. Basically, all I did was to create a few Pirates of the Caribbean 3 wallpapers two months before the official movie release when there weren’t any wallpapers yet. I made the post SEO friendly and made sure Google crawled the post. That was a good move, I have lots of traffic coming now that the movie is out (especially the first weekend after the release).
Here’s the URL (just in case you’re a PotC fan ;-))
http://celebrians.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-3-at-worlds-end-wallpaper.html
Mike Brewer
June 3rd, 2007 10:43 am
It never fails when I create a trackback to Seth Godin’s blog, my traffic shoots through the roof. I don’t trackback to every post as tempting as that is. M
Ganesh Chandran
June 3rd, 2007 10:44 am
The traffic stats of my blog for the month march is still eyecandy for me.One article of mine scored a link in by LifeHacker and that brought considerable amount of traffic which subsequently followed the traffic from frontpage of del.icio.us.A reasonably good traffic came from dzone.This was in march first week.And about a week later i was able to make a successful Diggbait and should i tell you what followed.
Jonathan Franzone
June 3rd, 2007 10:46 am
My biggest traffic day so far has been because of a combination. The first was the Top 5 Group Writing Project hosted by ProBlogger.net. Unfortunately this coincided with the death of a four year old child in my son’s preschool class. I wrote up a dedication to her on my blog, which got a tremendous response as well.
Adrian Bruce
June 3rd, 2007 10:55 am
My biggest days have been when my sites are featured in educational newsletter with a big subscriber bases and then in the coming weeks as teachers hand my URL around their staff.
More recently hits to my blog posts http://teacher-toolbox.blogspot.com have more than tripled since hitting third spot in The Blogger’s Choice Awards
http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/categories/17
cheers
Adrian B
Adrian Bruce
June 3rd, 2007 10:58 am
PS So I guess my point is… get noticed and written about for quality content and put yourself out there for some awards :)
Stanislav Tochev
June 3rd, 2007 11:01 am
May 21, 2007 Google
laura
June 3rd, 2007 11:21 am
My biggest traffic day was yesterday. The readers made their way to my blog through StumbleUpon. The post was also on Blogg-Buzz. Since the topic of the post was on leaving comments at the blogs you visit I also got a record number of comments.
Before yesterday, my biggest traffic day was May 18th. However, the traffic was not as a result of the post that day. Rather it was from my participation in three group writing projects that all wrapped up at about the same time: Simply Successful Secrets, your group writing project, and a project on productivity.
Jonathan-C. Phillips
June 3rd, 2007 11:22 am
Biggest traffic day was on a wednesday, netscape and stumbleupon helped a lot, was a post I wrote titled “writing an outstanding blog post in 5 (ok make that 6) easy steps“! :) It also made my rss subscribers numbers go up a little!
hanneng
June 3rd, 2007 11:34 am
My biggest day of traffic usually at weekend, simple because I participant in the Saturday Photo Hunters activities, here and here.
I notece that most of the readers are from US. Comments left by my readers are encouranging, and really fun too.
Planning to do it every saturday, to maintain the traffic.
Pear
June 3rd, 2007 11:59 am
I am studying a Professional Writing & Editing course. My biggest day came after I told my lecturer about my blog and she put the details up on the whiteboard. A few of my classmates must have been interested enough to visit.
Keep up the good work Darren.
Don - AffiliateWatcher
June 3rd, 2007 12:03 pm
I did a recent article on my political blog. Didn’t expect it to be any different than the others, but it got Dugg and off it went.
Funny how the articles you think will be great are “ho hum” and then you get surprised by one you think is “ho hum” and everyone loves it.
Don
raising4boys.com
June 3rd, 2007 12:11 pm
Funny you should ask… Today is our biggest traffic day, and it’s all due to tasty Lifehacker love.
Tupten
June 3rd, 2007 12:26 pm
biggest traffic day came from hosting an about.com carnival and also getting featured on the front page of the carnival site.
Colleen
June 3rd, 2007 12:32 pm
My biggest day of traffic was March 9, 2007. It was the day that my blog was featured in a L.A. Times article about paid blogging (specifically PayPerPost). When the press contacted Ted Murphy at PayPerPost, he suggested they speak to me because I was, and remain, their top earner. I spent a few hours talking with the reporter via phone, and clarifying information via email, and they sent a photographer to my house as well.
All in all, I was pretty happy - not only did I get a LOT of traffic (and a few hate comments) I had a few people contact me about advertising on my site, a few more who wanted to hire me to help them with their own sites, and a few more who just said ‘good job’!
Mr. Grown Up Geek
June 3rd, 2007 12:33 pm
First big day was Feb 18 2006 when Leo Laporte talked about my site on his radio show after I called in.. approx 10k visitors.
THE big day was August 27, 2006 when we hit the front page of Digg.com.. 70k visitors over a day or two.
both big days prove that (original and interesting) content is king.
mysurface
June 3rd, 2007 12:46 pm
I is my Thursday and its US’s Wednesday. It is a middle day in a week, and it always gain the peak traffics on that day. And the lowest traffics day is always at Sunday. Probably because my page provides solution for unix based command line, and majority of the source is from google search.
Neerav
June 3rd, 2007 12:46 pm
My biggest day of traffic was in mid-March 07 (which was also my best month for traffic so far) :-)
With some inside information I had written an article with the game schedules on Australian TV & radio for the cricket world cup many weeks before they were released by Foxtel, Ch9 and ABC radio
By itself this gained a lot of organic search traffic, but after I linked to a some streaming video sites where people could watch the matches for free traffic rose again
On 15th March I was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald and the resulting newspaper article Locals take to online cricket streams sent 4 times the usual traffic to my site for several days :-)
Maria P.
June 3rd, 2007 12:49 pm
My biggest days of traffic have been when I blogged about some struggles regarding motherhood. I would imagine that is because I frequent too many parent blogs. ;)
I guess if I want to blog about other things besides motherhood and have better traffic, I better find some other blogs to visit too. :)
Travis
June 3rd, 2007 1:05 pm
Still small time, but happy with the process. My highest hit day was the day I participated in ProBlogger’s Top-5 group writing contest. Thanks!
Beta3
June 3rd, 2007 2:01 pm
On my old blog it happened when I wrote about Rapidshare tools like Grabber and all. I submitted it to Digg. Traffic was average during first few weeks but then it suddenly skyrockted to 500 unique visit each day from Digg and Google to that single page which was good for a small time blog that had less than 50 unique hits per day.
Shankar Ganesh
June 3rd, 2007 2:03 pm
The day when my posts got stumbled by quite a number of people - that gave me a traffic spike.
Kevin Yeoh
June 3rd, 2007 2:57 pm
On 16 May, someone added one of my tutorial http://ebin.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/how-to-turn-your-photo-into-movie-like-effect-using-photoshop/ in stubleupon and brought a little traffic spike to my blog. Ever since then, few popular design blogs such as smashingmagazine and roscripts also featured that tutorial in their best of the month section. After a few days, Lifehacker featured that tutorial and at the same time on May 20 & 21, my blog was spiked with over 60,000 visits a day when delicious and digg listed it in the home page.
Myo Kyaw Htun
June 3rd, 2007 3:00 pm
my biggest day of traffic happened after my theme was appeared in wordpress theme directory and weblogtoolcollection. I got tousands of traffic and visitors comes from these two sites nearly 5 days. As for my blog, I just installed wp-cache and active it.
alec
June 3rd, 2007 3:53 pm
My biggest days have been when I’ve gotten lots of traffic from Reddit / Digg. Quick question: how does one become a top link on Delicious? I still don’t understand the system really — does it actually provide a lot of traffic if one gets on the front page?
Brad
June 3rd, 2007 4:15 pm
The days I get the most traffic are after I do an “advertising blitz” for my blog. There are good days to do this that will get me a fairly large influx of hits spread over several days.
But my blog is still small with a small readership. Problogger probably gets more hits in an hour than i do in a day (or even a week!). :-)
LayGuy
June 3rd, 2007 4:30 pm
When I posted on giving out Joost invites. I got given 999 invites early in the beta mode way before it became the norm. I posted it and self dugg and self reddited. I got bombarded with hundreds of requests - which for my blog was pretty cool.
David
June 3rd, 2007 5:38 pm
My biggest day of traffic occured when I wrote a post on a new web site dealing with real estate. A young lady starts this web site and I’ve asked her for an interview. I have chosen a nice title (in french as my blog is french) that could be translated like this: ‘real estate 2.0 is born’.
Then I have place my post on some french digg like and I had so many votes that my post stayed four days on the home page of Fuzz.fr…
This was a great day for my blog and like a second life starting…
Janette Toral
June 3rd, 2007 6:02 pm
It was when I released the week 2 results of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007 last May 26 at http://digitalfilipino.blogspot.com
Majority of the traffic came from Technorati. It gave a lot of link love to the entries and blogs they have cited.
Prior to the Saturday report, I was providing regular updates on the number of writing project entries and blogs cited through Twitter. I made sure to ping Technorati after every post.
Roman
June 3rd, 2007 7:01 pm
on 16th May when I posted a video preview of a new phone. The most traffic I got from different forums where was posted the url of the article :)…I got twice traffic than before…=D
Sergio
June 3rd, 2007 7:35 pm
A day when an answer to a question of “Chi vuol essere milionario”, italian tv quiz, whas in my site.
The traffic come from Google.
SpiKe
June 3rd, 2007 7:37 pm
Mine was around end of March when I posted my latest Clutter 101 article. I submitted it to lifehack.org (and Lifehacker too but they didn’t post it for some reason).
Anyways lifehack.org sent me a lot of hits, then a few days later, I got about the same amount from Stumbleupon, and finally the article broke the del.icio.us popular list. Unfortunately I’ve tried in vain ever since to replicate that sort of success :/
Deb
June 3rd, 2007 8:03 pm
My biggest day was last week when I was “Stumbled” twice.
Dave
June 3rd, 2007 8:20 pm
My biggest ever traffic day came when I was stumbled and included into Google News in the same day. Note, this is for my poker-king.com website, not the one listed above..
advertising archive
June 3rd, 2007 8:26 pm
Digg x 2 + Reddit on one day = 1M page loads and 100K unique visitors. Happened last week in fact.
Lodewijkvdb
June 3rd, 2007 8:36 pm
My biggest day of traffic was in April 2007 when I did a guest post at Zen habits (Why complicating your life makes simplifying it worthwhile). It drove 300 visitors to my blog, that was only a couple of weeks old at the time.
My second biggest day of traffic (just a couple of visitors short…) was 2 days ago when Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home stumbled one of my articles ().
In terms of conversion, the traffic from Zen habits lead to the most RSS subscribers. Stumble upon mainly drives a lot of traffic as far as I can see.
Lodewijkvdb
June 3rd, 2007 8:54 pm
Apologies, the link went bad. It was supposed to link to:
http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/top_100_ways_to.html
Kelly
June 3rd, 2007 9:35 pm
I write about mostly pop culture/movies/television topics. A week or so ago, I posted about the Lost finale right after it happened. I was, as far as I can tell, one of the first bloggers to use the phrase “flash-forward.” This gave me a huge amount of traffic and for many Lost related keywords, I was on the front page of Google and even a few time, above ABC.com itself.
Another big one was blogging about Laila Ali on Dancing with the Stars. Another google success.
My first big day (and I’ve had my blog for awhile, but mostly just played with it until a couple of months ago) was when I wrote a small blurb about the film 300. I put the word “naked” in the title. Hallelujah. I didn’t even think about traffic when I did it. I was being funny and just stuck it in the title.
nakedpastor
June 3rd, 2007 9:52 pm
I wrote a short post called My Vision is to Have No Vision, not thinking anything of it really. But it evoked a rather visceral response leading to 130 comments.
Blogging with Desi Baba
June 3rd, 2007 9:56 pm
i got around 4,300 unique hits in one day because I got and posted exclusive wedding pics of Ashawaya Rai and Abishek Bachchan’s wedding. They are India’s most popular and powerful celebrities. With that surge of traffic it exposed my blog to get high traffic.
Stephen Hopson
June 3rd, 2007 10:27 pm
Hi:
It’s ironic you would ask this question because according to Google Analytics, I received a very large spike in traffic, mostly from Reston, VA. While I’m elated, I have absolutely no idea why.
Unfortunately Google Analytics doesn’t tell you WHO these people are other than giving you the network location, area, etc. I don’t know anyone in VA other than my brother (who I don’t think has been promoting my site) and a client (who doesn’t yet have a lot of traffic to her site).
So, I’m a bit puzzled!
Stephen Hopson
Bob Blick
June 3rd, 2007 11:18 pm
My biggest day, and it was totally unexpected, was the Saturday of Memorial day weekend. My barbecue blog got over 1300 hits. I was shocked and could not figure out what happened, as I checked keywords on search engines.
Then I realized my posts were picked up by a popular food website. Out of the blue. Obviously I’m posting more regularly and since that day my visitors went from about 3 - 5 a day to over 400 a day. I’m pretty sold on Wordpress.
Coelho
June 3rd, 2007 11:22 pm
I don’t have a blog, but last year I translated a video in youTube after someone requested it in a comment.
The story is about a ghost. It is based on a video told to be found in a car accident, in Sintra, Portugal. The 2 guys and the girl were going to the mountain, at night, to hang out, and after getting lost, the pick up a strange hitchhiking girl, who says she had an accident. (http://coelho.homeip.net/articles/sintra_myth.htm)
It has usually little more that 100 hits per day. It is a static page. But in the eraly days it got over 10.000 in one day, because it was linked in a forum about ghosts. I couldn’t keep the audience because it is a static page.
I wish I had advertisement by then (although 100xfew cents = few cents)
Mr_Gadget
June 4th, 2007 12:03 am
When Gizmodo featured our Mr.Gadget 1GB USB Executive Watch. Thankfully our ISP catered for potential traffic.
We’ve also been featured on Channel Seven and Channel Nine at different times and they have been good too.
Here’s our blog link:
http://www.mrgadget.com.au/2005/09/mrgadget-1gb-usb-20-executive-watch.html
Gizmodo’s link:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/mr-gadget-usb-watch-+-not-ugly–123183.php
At Home Mom
June 4th, 2007 12:50 am
My biggest day so far was when I wrote a post for the ProBlogger Top Five Writing Group Project. That really boosted my traffic and it has stayed fairly high since then. I can only assume that many of the people who found me through that list decided my information was good enough to keep them coming back!
Rhea
June 4th, 2007 12:51 am
This was sort of dumb luck. I started a carnival for bloggers who write for baby boomers. One of our carnival members got featured on the Kim Komando radio program as the cool site of the day, and since he was hosting the Carnival that day, I was lucky enough to get some spillover.
Trent
June 4th, 2007 1:09 am
My biggest day was when I freelanced an article with MSN that got posted prominently on MSN.com. My freelanced article included several links to my blog. It was a larger traffic rush than digg’s front page.
Zach Everson
June 4th, 2007 1:47 am
Lifehacker ran a tip I submitted about reducing errors in your writing by listening to your text.
Rafael Reinehr
June 4th, 2007 1:49 am
Until now, the biggest day of traffic I have was 3 ou 4 years ago, when I hosted my weblog in the old Blogger (in Brazil it was later bought by Globo.com). At that time, we could fool Google easily managing metatags. So, if you put the name of the last Playboy Girl in the metatags in the exact month it appears, you get tones of visit. It was just an experience, that at that time worked. It’s not something I use to do now.
Angela
June 4th, 2007 2:02 am
I’m getting to the point that I don’t care if I make money while I’m blogging. I LOVE to blog and I LOVE to write and the more I dwell on the dollar signs the less happy I am with it all. If I can make money while I’m blogging that’s a bonus but no more dwelling on the details.. it takes away too much from my 1st love which is to write and meet new people. (just had to vent and get that off my chest)
Wesley
June 4th, 2007 2:19 am
StumbleUpon on this story…
How to Spot a Midlife Crisis
http://lifetwo.com/production/node/20061219-midlife-crisis-signs-symptoms
Residual traffic has been strong.
Roshan
June 4th, 2007 2:28 am
My biggest traffic day was when a news portal linked to an article of mine. I got lots of visits from that website.
Ponn Sabra
June 4th, 2007 3:40 am
My biggest day was when I started a 4-week Social Bookmarking/Get 500+ New RSS feed subscribers this month Challenge.I received the most diggs (14-at present–hey, every litlle # counts) and started building my profiles (# of friends in my network) at the Top 6 Social Networking/Bookmarking sites. I nearly tripled my average unique visitors per day that particular day.
This challenge is presently running, so anyone who wants to join come on and let’s grow exponentially together!
j
June 4th, 2007 4:09 am
Our biggest day occured after Foxnews linked us with their own headline “Purported Photos of Britney Spears Topless.” I couldn’t have written a more salacious (and untrue) headline if I tried. Conservative Fox readers couldn’t keep themselves from checking out a naked, young thing.
By the way, she was completely covered and nothing good was visable. God bless Foxnews…
redwall_hp
June 4th, 2007 4:35 am
My best day was May 3, 2007. I had 129 uniques that day. I frequently have totals above a hundred, but that’s my top. It was from a tutorial I wrote a few days previous. The visitors were coming from Tutorialized.com, where I submitted it.
http://redwallhp.ntugo.com/2007/04/18/tutorial-create-a-business-card-in-photoshop/
webfetti
June 4th, 2007 4:55 am
I had a story on the digg frontpage 3 weeks ago.. it crashed my server ..
the traffic was massive and i was able to convert it to some affiliate sales before the server went down
Blog4Brains.com
June 4th, 2007 5:42 am
I remember the day fondly. It was May 17th, 2007. I posted this article about how much junk is orbiting out planet. I received nearly 900 visits for that one article on that one day!! I couldn’t believe it! We got 1400 hits total that day, and I just wrote that article because I thought it was kind of interesting, definitely not expecting everyone else to like it too.
Jim
June 4th, 2007 5:42 am
Got on digg once, traffic went crazy. I had some posts on Crazy and cool inventions that seemed really popular.
Blog4Brains.com
June 4th, 2007 5:47 am
Oh, and nearly all of it came from Reddit. Sorry for the double post, I just forgot to give the source.
Calliah
June 4th, 2007 5:56 am
My biggest day was 543 hits because I got mentioned on wordpress’s blog of the day or something like that. Unfortunately, I didn’t retain much of those hits. Ah well.
Connie Bensen
June 4th, 2007 6:24 am
I blogged about how to use Google Alerts as Ego searches to know what people are saying (and to use as a promotional tool for getting out there to post blog comments)
http://digiscrapinfo.com/wordpress/2007/05/23/how-to-find-out-what-others-are-saying-about-your-blogproducts/
tuexperto.com
June 4th, 2007 8:01 am
Our biggest day of traffic was on February the 9th. Though our blog is focused on everyday technology, that day a porn site linked to one of our articles. And man, that day we discovered where the real traffic comes from :-)
I swear we didn’t do nothing for that to happen. The article was about a virtual 3D porn movie, but with no explicit pictures or videos, I swear :-)
Ray Fowler
June 4th, 2007 9:00 am
My biggest day of traffic was this past Friday. I am a pastor in Western Massachusetts and post thoughts on God and life a couple times a day. My blog is three months old and receives a modest amount of traffic - about 60-70 pageloads a day.
On Tuesday I happened to post a human interest story about a giant pig that was shot in Alabama. I posted a picture with the story and titled the picture, “Monster Pig.” Somehow my picture and link ended up at the top of the page on MSN image search for “monster pig,” and I got ten times the normal traffic Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
I don’t expect to get many return visitors from this, but it was fun to see the traffic spike.
60 in 3
June 4th, 2007 9:30 am
Mine was when The Simple Dollar linked to one of the articles I wrote about getting fitter while saving money.
Gal
Al
June 4th, 2007 9:36 am
My biggest day was the day before St. Patrick’s Day. Lots and lots of people were searching for “How to pour a black and tan” (almost entirely from Google, but other search engines contributed) and found a video we made illustrating the technique. Traffic had been ramping up for a few days prior to that.
Didn’t do anything special to get the traffic, except create a video and use simple descriptive words. The video was several months old by that point. I pretty much expect the same thing next March.
Jacqueline
June 4th, 2007 10:11 am
My blog deals with travel and writing.
Mine was when I wrote about visiting the Neuschwanstein castle in Germany - I still get hits from that. Another one was when I posted about wanting to visit Kyrgyzstan (not too many bloggers writing about!). And of course, the top 5 five list Group Writing Project didn’t hurt either.
Shedwa
June 4th, 2007 10:34 am
Mine was a day in which BoingBoing.net linked to my French AIDS PSA post. It led to a traffic increase of more than 12x my normal numbers. I didn’t do anything to encourage the link, someone just submitted my post to their site.
Rich Miller
June 4th, 2007 11:59 am
Back on April 5 my site was Slashdotted twice within four hours. Our blog tracks the data center sector, and both Microsoft and Google announced $500 million data center projects that week. That brought tons of traffic, and more than a little anxiety about the site remaining available. The next day I thanked our hosting provider for keeping us online.
clkl
June 4th, 2007 12:16 pm
When my blog was a week old (today it’s almost a month old), lifehacker featured my How I made a car console with duct tape and yogurt containers”, and I had many thousands of unique visitors within minutes. I still get traffic from that link, and it has been three weeks!
Jason Bartholme
June 4th, 2007 12:41 pm
My best day was on May 3rd, 2007. I made a post, 101 Ways to Annoy Your Co-workers. It was a humor post that was just for fun and was simply link bait. Within four hours of posting I got onto the home page of Digg. My server grinded to halt, but I got on all the mirror sites and eventhough I got buried on the home page, I got tons and tons of residual traffic from the mirror sites once my site got back up. Then, the other social bookmarking sites were showing my post on their respective home pages. I did a recap of the experience here: Post-Mortem of My First Visit to the Digg Front Page. It was a learning experience to say the least.
Jennie Rosenbaum
June 4th, 2007 3:01 pm
My Blog specializes in nude art and nude art controversies. I ran a series on the teacher Sydney McGee being fired as a result of her students catching a glimpse of a nude statue at an art museum. in a similar case a teacher in new york was facing legal action for suggesting life drawing to his senior students. needless to say I was outraged -
I think my titles had a lot to do with my hits, linking, timing and reddit. my commentaries were some of the first out there. a few days of 2-4000 unique hits per day.
The High Cost of Nudity
Children exposed to nudes
A downside to the success of these posts (apart from feeling the need to live up to them!) is that they seem to have attracted some very unsavory search terms looking for nude children. I am furious but I don’t know what action I can take.
Phil Voice
June 4th, 2007 3:35 pm
My greatest day of traffic came by accident.
I posted an image on my site of a face in the smoke as the second tower collapsing. I had watched a google video and saw the face develop and disappear.
Someone saw the post and put it on the Loose Change website and it has accounted for over 10% of my traffic since.
The site isn’t the Landscape Juice site but http://www.perigordvacance one where I write about our French life and renovating an old French Farm.
Phil
Phil Voice