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Statistics for September 2009

Whoops! I completely missed October 1st as the day to make my stats post.

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Highlights of September 2009:

  • September didn’t bring in quite as much traffic as last month, but as my fourth best month ever with about 26,000 hits, I’m not complaining.
  • The most popular post was about dorm necessities once again (though not by as much of a landslide as last month), bringing in about 16% of all hits across a variety of sources, with the two biggest being Google and StumbleUpon.
  • 50 College Tips and funny Google searches were also rather popular, bringing in a good amount of traffic as well through StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon has been a constant source of traffic, far more than any other social media site.
  • Most of my traffic comes from search engines — about 53% of it. For the first time in a while, my most-searched post isn’t about dorm supplies, but about Google searches.
  • I’m now 20

Although I’ve had a harder time committing to a stable posting schedule in the last week or two due to being back at college, I’m still here, and I’m still going to post.

And how about a new poll?

What is/was your favorite subject in school?

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10 Replies to “Statistics for September 2009”

Comments:

1. Mack from Las Vegas Homes

October 9th, 2009 12:42 pm

Dude, the analytics portrays a sudden travel to north during Sept 21 2009. Any specific reason behind it? Have you identified or thought intuitively on it?

2. Paul

October 10th, 2009 8:09 pm

@Mark: That bump is due to StumbleUpon, which periodically throughout the month would bring a lot of traffic in daily bursts like that. The other peak at the end of the month was also due to Stumble.

3. Girish from Car Rental Auckland

October 11th, 2009 2:18 am

Paul, if you closely observe the trend is going upward during the beginning of the week and then dipping down and again rising during the start of the week. Can you please let us know how exactly stumbleupon is increasing the traffic? Seems to be good investment of time on that.

4. Alan from San Diego Real Estate

October 12th, 2009 1:01 pm

26,000 hits in a month is a remarkable achievement. I wish my website recieves similar kind of traffic wave and i would be glad all the leads are converted in to sales. You are climbing the ladder in a brisk pace. Keep it up champ and I wish you all the best.

Kind Regards,
Alan Rosson

5. Liam McIvor Martin

October 12th, 2009 10:11 pm

I’ve been continually going up in terms of google doubling my traffic every month more or less to the point where google accounts for 60% of my traffic and now accounts for almost 50% of my sales. Any idea how I can get more google hits? I only get around 150-200 a day and really want to get into the 500 range.

6. Jeff from Sexy Plus Costumes

October 13th, 2009 4:44 pm

I recently entered the Halloween market with a few sites and the traficc is great now, but it will die in a couple of weeks until next year. Your traffic is amazing to me! Have you ever done any seasonal sites? It’s nice doing a more authoritative site, but I like the set it and forget it minisite pace on different subjects too.

7. mark from roman costumes

October 18th, 2009 2:43 am

Wow that is really great levels of traffic. My best site is at 50 to 60 visitors a day which I thought was pretty good. Suppose I keep trying and hope that I get to the levels you have achieved one day.

8. david from mini laptops

October 25th, 2009 10:56 am

Paul, I am really amazed on how your site gets this much traffic from Stumble upon. Can you write a post on how to get the most out of SU. This will be useful for many. We can do it as a combined one if you need my help. We can also write how a user can get the best information from SU. In this way that post will be useful for your website visitors.

9. Paul from CLEP

November 3rd, 2009 3:54 pm

Congratulations on your traffic levels and your birthday. Only one more year with a fake ID. ;)

I actually don’t use Stumbleupon all that often, but now I’m motivated to learn more about getting the most from the community.

10. Paul

November 4th, 2009 2:01 am

@Paul: Thanks! I haven’t had to resort to a fake and don’t plan to, though!

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