As such if this site attracts about 60 unique visitors on a day, I reach out with my tired-from-keyboard-hitting hand to pat my back. But today was different. Sundays are usually dull but that didn’t prevent my site to receive nearly 230 visitors with open arms.
It’s rather receiving them to my post, Effect of worms and viruses. It’s my post yet I ‘stumbled upon’ it, which in effect means I bookmarked the post with StumbleUpon, the famous social network site acquired by eBay in April.
I did it some 15 minutes to 12 late in the morning shortly after posting the article in the site. From 12 the torrent of visitors started and in just 2 hours some 180 of them arrived to my site from StumbleUpon.
My guests though didn’t stay much longer, which is perfectly in order. Because that’s what most ‘social’ visitors do when they chance upon a new site they haven’t visited before and perhaps will not visit again.
I hurried to check if they clicked on any of AdSense ads displayed in my site. That’s important because that gives me money. Well they did click – a handsome 20 clicks that correspond to 11% CTR for 180 visitors. Not bad that, but wait.
I promptly proceeded to my AdSense control panel to see how much money I’ve netted. Too bad, AdSense recognized just 2 clicks out of those 20. You know why?
AdSense doesn’t like a sudden spurt in click-throughs, which they look at with suspicion. Not surprisingly, all I could gain from the sudden StumbleUpon traffic is practically nothing.
Did I spend anything? Oh yes, the large volume of traffic gifted by SU did eat away a good part of my precious bandwidth.
By the way, if you wonder how do I know the traffic figures with such precision, let me reveal it’s thanks to PMetrics stats program that I find so useful.
And before I leave, here is a poser. Did you know StumbleUpon has a distant cousin by the name StumbledUpon? I happen to stumble upon the latter today that reserves copyrights of all materials in the site from 1997. Now, isn’t that interesting? You bet.
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