On Dec 21, we had a guest explosion over 200 people popped in...all going to the same thread (Huckabee" in the "Politics" forum) ...I asked around the software's forum if there was a way to find out where it was coming from...They said there wasn't and to ask the host server to find out where the traffic was coming from...
I decided to wait instead and see if Google Analytics could tell us anything after they updated their statistics...It's a site where I can view reports about our traffic...
It did...
The guest explosion came from StumbleUpon...185 visits directly from them, which means the others were probably another link from that added on top...
StumbleUpon is one of the many sites in the "social bookmarking" link at the bottom right of each post...It looks like someone linked it to SU and the floodgates opened...
So not only do we know WHAT happened, but HOW we can try and repeat it...
I just "stumbled" two stories...On top of that, I bookmarked them to del.icio.us, digg, Mister Wong, Netscape, reddit, Slashdot, Squidoo, Technorati, and Yahoo My Web...
That's why we have 37 guests at 5:20AM on a Sunday morning...
If we continue to bookmark...especially during weekdays when internet traffic is much higher, we can keep getting the word out about us...
So start bookmarking!...It looks like it can help more than we thought...
