I put up two blogs yesterday (as Lemonarian suggested in his Definition of a Bum http://lemonarian.com/DefinitionOfABum/DefinitionOfABum.pdf), one for product + review one for product + scam. I look today and I have 28 hops (no articles, twice the # of hops of a product that I had put up 8 articles for). I looked back at my two blogs and found that one had 5 visits from with wordpress.com as referrer, the other with 1 visit from wordpress.com search. I really don't get how I could get 28 hops that quickly. I didn't visit using my hoplink or anything. I never put it anywhere besides my blogs.
Sometimes you just get lucky with your blog post getting picked up here or there. Did you do any social bookmarking?
Yup, that could have done it. Sometimes I'll have a page get a crazy amount of traffic from social bookmarking (stumbleupon in particular can bring a LOT of traffic very quickly) ... the bad thing is most of this type of social bookmark traffic is very unresponsive (ie doesn't buy anything.)