My 3rd report on my 6 months goal of 5000 visitors per day

Today it’s 19 again, so it’s one of those days when I share my past month statistics for my dare of 5000 visitors per day. I haven’t had the time to do it properly yesterday or today until now, because I keep on cleaning windows and furniture since yesterday evening. Easter is coming and my wife launched the operation “spring cleaning reloaded” and in such situation there is no much room for negotiations, computer or playing the guitar. Damn!

So, shortly, here is what happened:

I’ve got ’stumbled upon” again!

Via Guitar Mx, I found about a top of “the greatest” guitar riffs of all time, put together by Telegraph.co.uk. I didn’t want to publish again the same top, but I have observed a few songs that didn’t make it on the list, even if they have famous guitar riffs. Among these, Satisfaction (of Rolling Stones). So I shared my thoughts about that top and you know what? It made it on StumbleUpon and that particular post had 1459 page views that day, and 2580 page views by today. It was again one of those days when my traffic was again nice

I had 1350 visitors the first day , then 860 then 460. The most interesting thing is that the traffic after that spike seemed to settle at an average around 250-300 visitors per day, which I consider good. I know I am still far away from my target, but it’s a good step forward, in my opinion.

On 16 I started again to receive visitors and the first moment I thought I am on StumbleUpon again but that was not the (only) reason. That day I had 815 visitors, half of them coming from the fact that an article of mine about Sungha Jung reached the first page of MetaFilter.com and that brought me 400 visitors one day and 566 visits by today which is again good because I wasn’t even aware of the existence of that site. That is if I don’t count the PR7 link from the first page, even if I don’t think it counts because I was there only 2 days.

I had 100 diggs but I was not on Digg’s first page!!!

This was one of the most amazing experiences I had this month. Really, I’m not joking! I found this guy, Rick Renstrom, which was born, I guess, with physical disabilities, which would have stopped anybody from even trying to think about playing an instrument! Well, not him! Rick Renstrom became a great guitar player! I was just amazed about his performance, so I had this article about him that suddenly started to get dugg! And it kept on receiving diggs! When I woke up the next morning after I posted the article, the article had 53 diggs, it was first on the upcoming list in music category on Digg, so far away from the next article, and I was on the upcoming list in Entertainment, in the middle.

I was sure I will get on the first page! 53 diggs in the morning and counting? I have even spoken to the guys hosting my blog, warning them about sudden traffic! By the end of the day I reached 100 diggs, I can tell you my adrenaline was high, I was very nervous, waiting for that big rush of people on my site and…nothing!?!! Nothing at all?! The article has got 100 diggs and didn’t make it on the first page?

Damn! So if I do the math, I can tell you that 100 diggs in 24 hours brought me 98 visitors from Digg. If I also count the 97 visitors from StumbleUpon, I can say that the article could have done much better, I was waiting for the big wave, the 20.000 visitors or more!! That’s what I was waiting for! Well…

If I draw the line and count, I can tell you that this month meant:

• 9993 visits
• 14500 page views
• 1 SU spike of 1350 visitors and about 2 smaller ones that I don’t count
• 100 diggs on one single article (but no front page)
• 9% direct traffic
• 36% search engines
• 55% referrals
• an apparently steady traffic of a 250-300 average per day, traffic observed in the last 10 days.

I have started to work on adapting my blog layout, so in a few days I will change a bit the way my blog looks, so stay close for the upcoming change!

Anyway, just a reminder, if you don’t know already: subscribe to RSS to get the news every day and never miss a post! It’s that easy, you know?!

Anyway, you should also see the first report and the second report of my monthly statistics.

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