t all started when I chose hours.
to 'stumble upon' my own
article in my blog, Kolkata Since I use PMetrics stats apart
Musing. The article was a from MyBlogLog and Google
humorous post - Effect of worms Analytics, it has been easy to
and viruses - of just 16 words precisely track the onrush of
accompanied by a fun photo taken visitors.
from Funlok that showed a
skeleton of a computer mouse. What did I find? Well, it proved
to be a test of sorts for me
I didn't plan the action. It was using a raging social network
a Sunday, and so I thought let me site, and the results have been
give it a try. Earlier too I fascinating. Here are my findings
'stumbled upon' my articles in recapitulating the events that
categories like Offbeat News but ensued as the visitors came
no noticeable traffic resulted. rushing in from StumbleUpon:
The same was the trend when I 1
tried my luck with other social Not all categories attract
biggies like Digg and instantaneous visitors, certainly
'del.icio.us'. Reason enough for not the ones like World News or
me not to expect much when I made Offbeat News unless the postings
this new effort with StumbleUpon. are truly eye-catching or jaw
dropping. In welcome contrast
What happened then was simply categories like Humor or Bizarre
delicious. Within 15 minutes of or suchlike have comparatively
my posting in SU the first high rate of success in SU. After
torrent of visitors started this posting in Humor I did
rushing to my site. This another in Bizarre with similar
continued unabated for the next 2 success.
majority of these guests will
2 never again put their feet in my
Nothing can take away the site.
importance of heading and
description. Both should be such 5
that there is an air of suspense Do they click on other links,
in them prompting visitors to especially the ads when they are
vigorously click the link to your in my site? Sure they do, and for
site to find more. me that's very important. I've
the AdSense ads that when clicked
3 fetch me money. After the initial
The main action doesn't last for stampede is over, I rush to check
more than a couple of hours, the AdSense figures.
which conveys to me that as long
as the story remains on the first I first check MyBlogLog stats and
page of StumbleUpon's related I find that in those 2 hours the
category, there will be torrent AdSense CTR has been 11% of the
of visitors. Thereafter it's a page-views, which is pretty
steady trickle petering out encouraging. Or is it?
gradually.
I rush to AdSense figures and
4 there alas only 2% conversion is
Most visitors don't stay more shown. Which leads me to believe
than a minute. Perhaps that is that Google doesn't like sudden
perfectly in order because they spurt in CTR and therefore
come to a site they've never filters out most of them.
visited before, and do not find
anything of more interest that 6
can retain them longer. In all Did I gain anything? My answer is
probability an overwhelming nothing really. It'll be too
naive to imagine that those
visitors who came hotfooted to my
site from StumbleUpon and left google_ad_width = 728;
equally hastily would come back
again remembering what a great google_ad_height = 15;
site they have been to.
google_ad_format =
7 "728x15_0ads_al";
Did I loose anything? Oh yes, the
large volume of traffic gifted by google_ad_channel =
SU ate away a good amount of my "3545651507";
precious bandwidth.
google_color_border =
8 "FFFFFF";
Will I try it again? But of
course I will if only to set google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
adrenalin pumping through my
body. Who knows some visitors google_color_link =
just may come back for repeat "0000FF";
visits..! No harm dreaming that,
don't you think? Provided of google_color_text =
course SU doesn't put a limit to "3E3F43";
stumbling upon my own articles.
google_color_url =
"3E3F43";
type="text/javascript">
google_ad_client =
"pub-8542272527121315";
type="text/javascript" tion.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
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