The 20th of October was a turning point for SteitBlog, where the traffic went crazy and increased by more than 350% of the normal trend. Regularly SteitBlog receives around 75-90 unique visitors everyday, but on the 20th of October it received 367 unique visitors which is around 4 times the regular traffic. What happened that day? How did the traffic increase by that much?
On the night of the 19th of October, I published an article titled “How To Make Google Love Your Blog” which was RTed immediately once posted, which drove a decent amount of traffic. The next day, a conversation about Thesis theme was running on Twitter and luckily I had a chat with Chris Pearson (The creator of Thesis) and he was very impressed with the layout of my blog and he tweeted about it.
After his tweet, the traffic kept increasing like crazy compared to the traffic I am used to. After a while, also luckily, I received 2 mentions from people I really don’t know who were also RTing my article mentioned above. What makes these two RTs different than others, the 1st user has around 10k followers and the 2nd more than 20k followers. WOW I was really shocked and impressed at the same time. Of course I do thank both, @writer_sheri and @featureBlend for RTing my post.
After a while, I had a conversation with David Risley (a six figure pro blogger), who I am big fan of and had guest posted on his blog earlier, and he then RTed my article to his 7k followers.
Till now, the spill over effect of these RTs is still there, and I am really enjoying the traffic being in an incremental trend and YEAH, I am monitoring my stats every hour or half-an hour.
Another reason that caused my traffic to increase, was that I recently joined a site called “BlogEngage” where you can create an account and submit your articles, it is a digg-like site but I think that it has focused more on the social factor, where users can easily communicate with each other and comment on others’ submitted articles. BlogEngage has been the 3rd top referrer. And what’s cool about it is that Brian (the guy behind it) keeps tweeting the IDs of the top users on BlogEngage so others can login and vote for their articles. I really like it, and enjoy the traffic that is generated from it.
Conclusion:
1- Quality writing. If the Quality of the article was bad, or was not good enough, nobody would ever care to RT it specially those big names with a lot of followers behind them. I will be mentioning it all the time, Content is the King and you have to concentrate on your quality of writing.
2- Socialize. You have to socialize with others users in the sphere. If I weren’t in a conversation with Chris or David, they would have never heard about SteitBlog. Socializing is an extremely excellent branding tool. You can socialize with others not only through social networks, but also through commenting on others’ blogs and joining forums.
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@techthinker
October 22, 2009 at 10:20 pmHi Firas,
That’s great news. You have indeed done a superb Thesis customization! It’s very hard to detect that you are even running on Thesis! Great work!
I agree on the point of be Social able. Do you have any filers in place to make sure that you are not missing the tweets from bloggers in your niche?
Too many times, I missed tweets from High Profile bloggers because I am following too many people. I am thinking of un following all and only follow the folks whom I am really interested in.
Regards
Aaron
Aaron from TechThinker.com´s last blog ..Following, the most neglected aspect of Twitter!
@steitiyeh
October 22, 2009 at 11:11 pmAaron, Thanks for the comment and the compliment, appreciated :) and I still believe that I can convince you with Thesis :D
Regarding staying aware of all tweets, I use TweetDeck and I have around 7 filters, so am trying not to miss anything. There are many solutions other than unfollowing people! trust me!
Best,
Steit
@techthinker
October 23, 2009 at 12:59 amI think I will move to Thesis one day. When that time comes I get it from your link :)
Aaron from TechThinker.com´s last blog ..Following, the most neglected aspect of Twitter!
@ryonaitis
October 23, 2009 at 4:12 amAs a simple statement I think this is both anecdotal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence) evidence ans posed but also true based on my analysis. Perhaps we should do a social study of this? I do believe that no one will rt trash or talk about it, content and dare I say truth is “King” and people retweet you not because you say something but because you say the truth and it is helpful to them and the people they care about.
again, I believe this is a good and important blog, retweet it! Seriously, content is king and this post that I am commenting on is witness of the same.
@lifenotion
October 23, 2009 at 11:00 amI just want to say congrats on getting more traffic to this blog. You have great content and I truly always look forward to what you are going to write next.
Now if only I can figure out what to write.
Haha just kidding.
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@MAltaee
October 23, 2009 at 1:50 pmGood Job Firas,
One day Chris Brogan shared his experience after getting the highest hits on his blog. He wrote about Twitter and how to get more followers.
I followed his advice here: http://brandingpower.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/wear-these-personalities-for-more-twitter-followers/
and got my busiest day too :)
When we write about others and offer easy solutions, it always works but we don’t make it a habit!
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@bbrian017
October 25, 2009 at 7:44 pmsteitiyeh ty so much for the kind words. When used right blogengage can easily become your top referrer. What people forget is to be human, be yourself and be respectful. Follow the easy guildlines, build the relationships and you’re off to a great start.
You have managed to do great!
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@pascalsundhar
October 26, 2009 at 7:57 pmI came to your site at today morning. This was my first visit. I came to your site through @danielscocco retweet, hope you know very well about daniel, he is the author of http://www.dailyblogtips.com
Hi Steitiyeh, You made the correct move with social media to drive traffic. It works for everyone.
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