Ever had a breakout day on your site? I mean like spitting coffee on your monitor when your stats came out? I recently had such a day Monday. My site is 2 months old and averging about 20 UVs a day. Imagine my suprise Monday when I checked my stats and had 18,000 UV. That's an increase of 89,000% in one day! I'd post the site, but I am near my bandwidth limit and can't really handle anymore traffic. I'm still in shock over this.
I had a day last year that my earnings went from $2 to $20, the day after was $80. MSN was good to me, at least one of my sites.
Hey, that's pretty good growth! And a lot of uniques. I've had slow, steady growth, but nothing like that. I'd be shocked as well.
i had a pretty crazy day yesterday - with my two websites nearly settled at pr5. and then i had my first affiliate sale! well obviously i've just started and have been getting about 7 click-thrus on my affiliate links each day. then yesterday i got like 200 click-thrus and then my first sale. my affiliate link was posted in a newsletter that clearly goes out to a -lot- of people. a good day it was! sonic - i'd be interested to hear how you managed to increase your traffic like that as well... thomas
aha that's what i was thinking! was just reading about that the other day on johnchow.com (seems to be down at the moment...) Congrats! that's really some incredible traffic!
Well I had a week were I had around 4-10 times the traffic the site normally got. The site was featured on a BBC TV show that's shown across Europe. Since then my traffic went from a less than a couple of hundred to a stable 600 - 1000 UV a day. Not bad for a small niche site.
That's GREAT! If you feel like sharing the traffic, add a link to my site! (hahaha) Cangrats. PS: What did you write about to get on slashdot?
It was actually yesterday. I sent out a press release to various sites (prweb, prleap.com, etc etc) a few days ago (to be published yesterday) and made sure i paid their amount to get the most exposure. Well i woke up this morning, check my sites stats and my traffic DOUBLED, my site is listed on 200+ more websites than it previously was ( that is according to msn. Google isn't quite showing that many... yet) and adsense revenue was obviously up quite a bit Very happy and was quite surprised to see that! Always a good feeling Thumbs up to press releases!
Hey, if your revenues were up by more than your payment to prweb, you may have hit on a good system there.
That's fantastic! Has traffic died down to the point that you can share your URL with the rest of us?
Thanks Shoutwire. Twice actually. 1) Posted a story about a USB Coffee Warmer. Got around 8000 UV from SW and torrent spy. Then the popular blog lifehacker.com wrote about it and threw back a link. Another 4000 UV. 2) Just 2 days ago I submitted a story about Songbird. Some of you might have heard about it here. (Basically a music player built from firefox that will also have extension and has some really powerful features). 8080 UV in one day. Then 1000 the next. My avg UV is b/w 80-120UV a day. Pretty neat I'd say. Skinny