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October 22, 2007

The WordPress.com Popular Blog Effect

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I was just looking through my long list of draft posts and I found this post that I never published. It’s a little dated, but still a good read.

I recently posted about making it to #1 on WordPress.com. At first I made it only to the top of English blogs, but I eventually made it to top of all 480 thousand blogs.

Well, it turns out that being at the top of WordPress.com brings even more traffic to your website. I always wondered how much extra traffic Scoble was receiving from being the top of WordPress.com. Now I know and so I’m going to share it with everybody.

First you have to understand that there are a number of ways that WordPress.com sends your blog traffic. The two methods I’m talking about in this post is WordPress.com and Blogs of the Day. Tags is another method, but that’s a topic for another day.

Referrals from WordPress.com to So You Think You Can Dance blog:
11-13 36 Referrals
11-14 40 Referrals
11-15 127 Referrals
11-16 396 Referrals (Hit #1 English Blog)
11-17 487 Referrals (Hit #1 Blog)
11-18 52 Referrals

Referrals from Blogs of the Day to So You Think You Can Dance blog:
11-13 3 Referrals
11-14 3 Referrals
11-15 11 Referrals
11-16 22 Referrals (Hit #1 English Blog)
11-17 29 Referrals (Hit #1 Blog)
11-18 12 Referrals

The best part of getting all this new traffic is that you are finding new readers that will often post a link to your blog on their blog. I should also acknowledge that the name of the blog will affect the numbers above. I guess WordPress.com is much more important than the WordPress Blogs of the Day.

It was still fun to think that my blog was the most visited that day out of 480 thousand blogs.

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2 responses to "The WordPress.com Popular Blog Effect"

  1. # Wordpress Banner Exchange commented on December 14th, 2007:

    One of the most effective ways of driving traffic to a blog is often a banner exchange that shares the same genere. This is the source of a large number of repeat visitors when quality content is presented.

  2. # Juanchito commented on December 15th, 2007:

    You wouldn’t be bias. Oh wait, maybe you are. Why don’t you try doing a banner exchange as opposed to spamming my blog for traffic if it’s so effective?

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