The Stumbleupon stampede – one amazing night of traffic
Sep 7, 2007 Blogging
While I was chatting away on the phone with Tish last night, stumblers were lining up in droves to read the first part in my series “The Evolution of a comic strip and its characters”. I’d have to go back through the logs on StatCounter but I believe this may be a new personal record for the number of unique visitors to my site in one night. This all occurred in roughly a 4-6 hour window. You can see what traffic is normally like and what happened after a few people gave the thumbs up to my article on Thursday. If there’s anyone out there who’s still not sold on the power of StumbleUpon, they’re crazy. The traffic may only be short lived but it sure is nice when it happens :)
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September 7th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
*Shocked* In more ways than one, lol. Congrats Mike – On all the levels of your success!
September 7th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Tha’ts brilliant. :-)
I’m so proud of you. :)
September 7th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I had one day like that last month. Man, if only it could happen all the time I’d be set. Here’s to more of those days for all of us! :)
Shine on,
Aaron
September 7th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I forgot to mention…I only recently joined StumbleUpon and haven’t had the time to check it out beyond just joining. So I’m still pretty much clueless about it. Guess I’d better get on the stick and become familiar with it.
My StumbleUpon page
If anyone’s got any tips about Stumble I’d be glad to hear them! :)
Shine on,
Aaron
September 7th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
It was Baron and me. We traded off every half hour stumbling that post. Just doing our part in getting you to Mr. 1K. :D
September 8th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Aaron, I’m not all that into stumbleupon but I do know that it works. Some bloggers had a stumbleupon group going in the Gummy Forums:
http://www.lovesickalien.com/forums/
I’m not sure if it’s still there. Also they might have a stumbleupon group over at the Blog Catalog Forums. Basically if you can find a group to join, everyone trades stumbles and increases their traffic.
Good luck Aaron! :)
September 8th, 2007 at 10:13 am
wow that`s what i call traffic. very nice.
September 8th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
@Christy: I think I know which other way you’re shocked ;)
@Linda: Hehe, thank you :D
@Aaron: That would be nice, wouldn’t it? I could live with 1,400 unique visitors each day…lol. I added you to my list of stumble friends :)
@Mark: I should have known. You guys really are great friends ;)
@Hoto: It was a very nice night :)
September 9th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Wow, that is amazing. I have never received that much traffic in such a short period of time. All I can say is you have something special in what you do and I wish you the greatest of success. You certainly deserve it and I just want to see real talent rule the blogosphere:)
September 10th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
@Bobby: Isn’t it?? I couldn’t believe how it when I saw it myself…lol. Now if that sort of thing would occur regularly I’d be pretty darn happy :P Thanks for the kind words, buddy. I always appreciate them :)
September 10th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Thanks so much Christy! I did in fact join there just recently…Bucky (The West Virginia Blogger) and I had initially discussed setting up such a site, but then realized that Mike already had a forum set up for it, so I joined.
I keep everything on the down-low, though, so sites like Stumble and Digg don’t cancel my account. It happens frequently, so it pays to be safe. Thanks for your help! :)
Shine on,
Aaron
September 10th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Btw…
Mark and Baron,
Where the hell are you guys when I really need you?!…And how much do you charge anyway? LOL, you crazy bastards!
Stumble on! :)
Shine on,
Aaron
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April 8th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Nice to see the success! stumbled!
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October 8th, 2008 at 9:42 am
this very nice, thank you.