Archives for the Month of September, 2008

StumbleUpon huge spike and decline

From a previous post I discussed the power of StumbleUpon to bring in new visitors but also a quick decline after one day. On September 23th we saw 486 unique visitors to our site and then on September 24th we saw 1296 unique visitors. We received all of these visitors simply by filling out a [...]

Another Stumbleupon Spike and some reviews

Yesterday we saw about 500 users from Stumbleupon view our website which is great news. This tells me that there is a market out there for people that want to see websites about writing. We have also seen a few positive SU reviews about the site which are here.
However I have to agree with the sentiment [...]

Stumbelupon Spike then decline

I posted Votepages on Stumbleupon to get some traffic and have people check it out. On the first day 100 people came to the site which is great ot see. I was very happy with 100 visitors. But then the next day we had none. This is very confusing to me. If the site is [...]

Website is open for writers

We fixed some security bugs and now the site is ready to go. I am creating links across the internet on pertinent sites and asking people to link back. So far I have used StumbleUpon, Digg, and several writing-oriented sites. I checked our Google Analytics tool and we have had several vists (around 100 uniques) [...]

In case anyone is listening

I have noticed that we have a few visitors to our blog so I want to notify you of what is happening. The tech guy on this project My brother Dan is moving the hosting for the application to another server. Once that is finished, the application will be open for business and I will [...]