I have a blog at http://gpsnuvi.com/blog which I have been promoting in many different ways lately. I've added it to Technorati. I'm using EntreCard (though my first ad hasn't run yet). I put a Feedburner link on the page. I'm #2 in Google for a recent news story search term, which gives me visitors lately. Someone added a recent post to del.icio.us. I added a recent story to Digg. I have a small PPC campaigns on AdWords. I recently added a tool to the website that automatically updates once an hour with the latest pricing info from a variety of sources. Etc etc. I just checked awstats... I got 3 visitors in the last 4 hours . It seems that the trickle would turn into a stream a little faster than it has. The blog has been up about a month. Is it always this slow? I get maybe 100 UVs a day, not bad I guess, but lately it's been less (especially since the site has apparently been banned from StumbleUpon, though I can't see the reason for that). I'm currently working on a Squidoo lens, my first, for it. Maybe I will be able to Stumble that. I've seen popular blogs and they often seem really half-assed. Am I putting too much work into this? It's been 16 hour days lately.
Your site got banned from SU because you were probably buying stumbles or something; this has been happening a lot lately. And about the decline in UVs, it might be because you're picking the wrong keywords to promote.
Thanks for the assumption, but no I wasn't buying or trading stumbles or anything like that, just stumbling stuff I found.
Also add your Squidoo lens to http://www.lensroll.com/ http://isleofsquid.com/directory/ and http://www.squoogle.com/
Thanks. I did submit it to lensroll.com. I don't get that site though -- is it just really small still? It seems to only get a submission once every couple hours or so, and the main page is made up of stories with like 6 votes. What's the point? (BTW I did indeed stumble that lens; it seems to have driven a total of 1 visitor to the lens, and that may have been on submission. How is that possible??)
Lensroll.com is a fairly new site. It's a bit like Digg but just for Squidoo lenses. It will grow over time as Squidoo does. And Squidoo sure is growing. Compete traffic tracking listed Squidoo as the 14th fastest-growing website in 2007 http://blog.compete.com/2008/01/17/2006-vs-2007-top-moving-sites/ I don't know what happened with your stumble. I do know that one of the best ways to get more traffic with a Squidoo lens is to make sure it is tagged properly. You get forty tags and it impotant that you use a combination of phrases and single words. Think about what someone searching for the type of product or information you provide would be likely to type into a search engine. You can also try experimenting by typing some search terms into http://labs.google.com/suggest to see what other tags might be good.