What I got for Christmas was a blog stat spike
December 25th 2009 23:02
It was inspired by my 80-something father in law, to whose generation this fun and quirky alphabet of rhyming slang is well-known. The post (which you can see here if interested) proved a comparatively big hit on a small and sparsely populated blog.
I have posted intermittently on NewlyOld in the ensuing year, and its readership has risen only moderately to a regular 200 to 300 hits a day, with a high of 589 hits.
That record was smashed two days ago. On Christmas Eve I was surprised to see a hit count for NewlyOld of 996. This was all the more surprising as I hadn't posted to the blog for almost two months.
Spikes in blog readership like this are invariably caused by one of two things: either someone has linked to your blog post on their own blog, or through StumbleUpon or a similar favourite flagging site; or an old post has suddenly become topical and a therefore a popular search engine subject.
The way to find out what has caused your stat spike is to scroll down your Orble traffic email to Referral Stats, which will show you what is creating all the fuss.
In my case with NewlyOld, the fuss was created by nothing more than an increase in people around the world Googling the word Christmas. Just under 1,000 of them found me. Ain't blogging fun!
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