RunningClam

This year I got pretty much traffic from the various social networks. Here is the list of the most trafficked of them:

• StumbleUpon - 153,837 unique visitors this year so far
• Reddit - 10,099
• Vykop.pl - 9,824
• Shoutwire - 1,407
• Meneame.net - 826

StubleUpon: You need to get at least 50 positive reviews to get high enough in the queue to get more than 10k unique visitors per day. The effect lasts for a several days. The tale is long and fluffy - if you have 10k U.V. a day while on the top of the queue, you will get 100k for the next month. Good link baiting abilities.

• 1st day - 9,653
• 2nd day - 13,293
• 3rd day - 10,040
• 4th day - 8,274
• 5th day - 7,893
• 6th day - 7,883
• 7th day - 7,357
• 8th day - 6,684
• 9th day - 5,315
• than two weeks plateau around 4k unique visitors a day
• and after that - several months of ~300 UV per day

Reddit: hitting the front page will give approximately 1.5k unique visitors every hour you are on it (depending on time and news title). To hit the front page you need to get at least 30-40 points (up votes minus down votes) in the first hour after submit and keep this trend running. Top news on Reddit have up to 800 points. The tale is short and thin. Quite good link baiting abilities.

Vykop.pl - Polish 100% Digg clone. Surprisingly high trafficked. You can get around 10k UV a day from its front page. The tale is very short and thin. You need at least 60 up votes in the first couple of hours to get to the front page. The only way to get attention for the non-Polish language sites - show a lot of interesting and self descriptory pictures.

Shoutwire: Digg clone. Easy to get to the top but low on traffic. No more than 1.5k per day from the front page.

Meneame.net: Spanish Digg clone. Mostly Spain traffic, with just about 10% South Amertican. Up to 20k a day from the front page. You need at least 50-60 up votes in the first couple of hours. The tale is short but quite fluffy. Spanish language or a lot of pics are essential.

I have had a traffic spike on the one of my blogs recently. Most of it have been delivered by the various Web 2.0 communities:

As you can see, almost all (two thirds, to be precise) unique visitors came from the StumbleUpon. It is a best Web 2.0 traffic source. Moreover, it is considerably easy to get the pretty high ranking there.

And for my surprise, a well known and pretty popular Shoutwire social network have delivered seven times less visitors than Polish Digg clone Wykop. Although the story was on the frontpage of both of them for a couple of days.

Tears welled up in my eyes when I saw the Streem.us frontpage for the first time. Well, it’s quite web 2.0 but the color scheme…

A Squidoo lens with a 500 words of text content, one YouTube video and 9 unique visitors per week gets to the 40,000 position (out of 400,000+) in the lenses rating.

It seams that Google doesn’t likes the Twitter. I’ve just came across the Hilary Clinton’s microblog and searched for several exact phrases from it at Google. With no results. Google doesn’t return any twitter page at the first five pages. That’s strange because Hilary’s microblog should be very trusted with the loads of backlinks.

Web 2.0 image sharing service Zooomr has an official position named “Chief Evangelist“.