Genius Types received 34,865 page views in May.
Not counting StumbleUpon traffic, unique visitors to Genius Types increased from 8,286 in April to 10,463 in May, a 26% increase. Since April traffic included an unusually high number of StumbleUpon referrals (8,616); overall traffic actually decreased.
I added a whopping 140 feedburner subscribers over the month (56% more than I added last month), averaging about 4.5 per day and ending the month with 444 subscribers.
While StumbleUpon traffic can be very exciting when it hits all at once, the traffic spike is a little deceiving. StumbleUpon visitors don’t intentionally choose to visit your site, they are basically just put there (hence the name). As a result, there tends to be more bounces and less rss subscribers, comments, and Ad clicks.
I’ll take all the traffic I can get, but I am more concerned with organic growth, meaning rss subscribers and regular readers.
The compound monthly growth rate (rolling average over the last 3 months) of overall traffic dropped to 22%, which still beats any other business model I know of.
Technorati
I moved from a Technorati Rank of 20,573 to 17,592.
Top Posts
Here are the top three posts for May:
1. Passive Income Strategies :: 3,832 page views
2. What Europeans and Americans Can Learn From Each Other :: 2,055 page views
3. Five Ways to Create Passive Income With Little or No Money :: 1,960 page views
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Awesome Brian, glad to see this site is taking off. You’ll be a pro blogger before you know it!
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Nice, I like how you are so open with your traffic stats
Organize IT
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You and I think very alike Sanel… I’ve already got a spreadsheet that has it plotted out!
You’re right, I like to see that upward curve, (especially on the money graphs!)
Keep an eye out next week for my May blog income report.
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It’s interesting to see that most of the graphs are beginning to show an exponential pattern (i.e. if you add back the stumble-upon traffic)
At this rate if we apply some basic calculus your site should break the 60000 barrier by June end.
Good luck!
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I think you are right to be more concerned with organic growth than bursts of traffic. Do you know what is driving the most organic growth?
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On the most basic level, organic growth is all about content. There will always be a certain number of people who find your site each month through searches or referrals. Good content will get them to come back regularly and add to organic growth.
Content will also encourage people to link to your site which will bring more visitors. It’s a cycle between getting people to find your site and getting them to come back.
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