Entrecard after a Month
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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?
