Needless to say, I monitor the WebWideWord website to see how many visitors I get. I've been trying various ways and means of increasing my visitors which seems to vary between 30 and 50 per day (yes, to be honest I am a little disappointed in this but a long way from giving up). One of the methods I used was to Stumble my own site (just the once!) using StumbleUpon and a couple of friends also gave the thumbs up to the site.
I picked up a sprinkling of visitors from this means (5-10 per day) until last Friday. Suddenly I had 299 visits on Friday followed by just under 700 on Saturday. "Whoopee!" I thought until I looked at the number of words being added.
On Saturday from nearly 700 hits I had 4 words added. Compare this to the previous weekend when from a meagre 32 hits I had 13 words added. Friday was little better; 6 words from 299 visits.
My conclusion to this is that whilst StumbleUpon may have generated a large number of hits for me they were of little use in the grand scheme of things. I often spend an hour or so just Stumbling sites. Sometimes I read them, other times I quickly pass through. I suspect I had been hit by the latter. Low attention span, possibly, not a big enough indication on the start page saying what the point of the grid is, again possibly.
Anyway, my hits are back down to the 30-50 per day range.
I await with interest what happens next time StumbleUpon passes my way.
Remember though Spread the WebWideWord.
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