Damien at the Speed of Life

Traffic sources to my blog ‘Postcards’ 3-14-09 to 4-14-09

Blogging thrives on the gut of the everyman.  In other words: every blogger is a glutton for the same basic things.  One of those things is traffic.  If you are an artist, you want viewers.  If you are a musician, you want listeners.  If you are a blogger, you want readers and that means: traffic.  In my narcissistic quest to find more traffic I have learned a few absolute truths.  The biggest one is this: “Nothing I can ever invent will bring me more traffic than the existing tools around me.”  In the spirit of this truth, I have been exploring those services and tools that currently exist to help my blogs get traffic.

I have been dropping at Entrecard for about a month now after a long hiatus.  The only thing I have done in the past month is this (very important to note): Drop back on just the first page of my drops inbox every day.  I also have bought a few ads but only twice in a month.  The reason this is important to note in gauging Entrecard’s effectiveness is because I know there is far more that can and should be done with Entrecard.  I am a complete beginner there.  Still, if you look at the circled numbers, I got a significant return via Entrecard traffic.

Then there is Stumbleupon, my #1 traffic source.  The only thing I do there is submit my own posts in between other posts I find interesting.  MINIMAL EFFORT.  The number speaks for itself folks: 40% of my traffic last month came from Stumbleupon with minimal effort on my part.

I will continue to leverage Entrecard but I’m thinking I will read some more tutorials on Stumbleupon and spend more time using it … it seems the better investment, do you agree?