Great past two days (SEO, traffic, DMOZ)! [Pointless gloat thread]

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by scriptman, Jul 1, 2007.

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    I've had a good few days recently! I got accepted into DMOZ, and have now published a few good websites including my own (It's listed now, had one hit from DMOZ already). The website I listed was optimized for three particular words in Google - and it's the number one result for them! It's only been live for a few days. (The keywords are a little offbeat but they also return other sites similar to mine, so they should be right).

    Also I've been experimenting with StumbleUpon. I looked at that StumbleXchange thing but it is frowned upon by the rest of Stumbleupon (Check all the negative reviews of the URL... heheh). I decided to give it a go myself without help, so I stumbled about 20 sites that appeal to my niche two days ago, friended about 15 people and left it for the night. The next day I had one review and two mutual friends. My plan was to get 10 or so friends who like my niche market (attracted by the similar things I stumble) but I was too excited and stumbled an article on my site.

    It's brought over 1500 visitors! I got about 1000 visits in the first 5 hours, and the rest is a steady trickle between last night and now. Clickthrough ratio was poor, but I am not concerned. The website deals with my hobby, so it's not an extreme business venture.

    Just now I checked my Feedburner account and I have 6 subscribers! I think that's pretty good considering the website age (a few days) and the lowish traffic by "popular website standards". I might be wrong but nevertheless I'm happy to know at least 6 people want to read more about what I write. What is the usual unique visitor : RSS subscriber ratio?

    Well that's all. Unfortunately I updated my site recently and deleted my Google Analytics script, so I only have AWstats information for the past few days :( I've since put Analytics back in.
     
    scriptman, Jul 1, 2007 IP