When one of my sites got on the digg homepage - for a few hours, my site managed to pull in over 40,000 unique visitors - and a ton of backlinks. My article didn't stick that long though, but the backlinks sure helped for a while. So, what's the highest amount of unique visitors your site received in one day?
I got 8500+ uniques on http://www.hungamalive.com/ via stumble.. I have got more then 200 stumbles and 150 reviews for a number of my videos and am getting 2000+ uniques daily from over a month now..
That was on Oct 30 or 31. I generally get between 1500 and 2000 uniques for that particular site per day. More than half of my traffic is from Google search, and nearly 25% is from Yahoo.
Very nice buddy. Keep up the great work. So, do you think in another year or two you'll be able to receive 6,000 daily unique visitors?
Definitely. I just put this site up back in February. My traffic has been steadily increasing every month since then. After the last PR update I am ranking #1 for my main keyword phrases and in the top 10 for some secondary ones.
I received about 3000 unique visitors in just few hours from StumbleUpon. I don't know how their rating system works but I sure got lots of stumbles.
Great job. What's the biggest keyword for your site so far? Are there any big keywords you're trying to rank for?
I am not sure but my highest is somewhere around 3,000 unique/day from which about 2,000+ is from search engines.
I got nearly 1k from some article a lot of people Dugg on my blog. It didn't last long, and there is this huge spike in traffic on that day. My blog doesn't get a lot of uniques yet.
It looks to me like the majority of these unique visitors are coming from stumble upon and digg... do you guys think that this is a sustainable strategy? How do you convert these visitors to becoming real readers?
I dont believe that visits from stumble upon and digg are worth very much. I experimented a little with this (several months ago) and I was able to get thousands of visits but saw no increase at all in earnings - also according to the stats it looked like most of those visits were less than 30 seconds. The biggest portion of my traffic comes directly from the search engines and now my earnings (as well as time spent onsite) just continue going up
I don't think Digg is, but Stumble gives me some steady traffic every day. However, I'd much rather organic hits, they tend to stay far longer and view more pages.