I have such a busy workload that I am rarely able to meet up with old friends or even make new ones. I would be dead tired at the end of the day that I would rather go home straight and spend whatever energy I can still squeeze from my body doting on my children before dinnertime.
Fortunately, whatever I lack in social life is being filled in online. Being part of an online community sure helps me connect with others outside of my family. The experience also teaches me about blogging, provides me with tips on how to become better at blogging as well as on how to improve my site.
In fact, just last week, I had my very first comment exchange experience. Since Adgitize and CMF Ads closed down, I don’t think many people (or any at all) have ever visited my blog. Not that it would matter since I have stopped blogging for quite some time so even if they do visit, they’ve had nothing new to read here.
Comment exchanges get bloggers to visit each other’s sites, read and post a comment on whichever post caught their attention. MKL very seldom gets any feedback so on my first day on the program I was overwhelmed by the number of comments the site had gotten. I REALLY wanted to respond to each and every comment but because of the volume, I found it very hard considering I still have to make my rounds on top of that.
On one such blog hop, I read Kero’s fabulous report on her blog’s statistics for May 2012. Wow, more than 50,000 hits in a month? I’m impressed!
So taking off from her cue, I also checked out MKL’s statistics for May just to get a clearer grasp of how far I am from achieving that goal. And the report I got was not what I had expected at all!
WHAT THE?!?! That can’t be right, my eyes deceive me!
The report really weirded me out, honestly! Here I was thinking I’m way off the 50,000 mark only to find out that not only have I exceeded it last month, I’m already way past that this early in June! How could this have happened? Where did most of these hits come from?
While I don’t have an explanation for the sudden upsurge last month, I sure can see how I’ve reached such milestone in June. Remember me mentioning joining various PTC sites in my post on my Neobux payment proofs?
Well, some of these sites actually have click exchange programs that award clickers points for each site they visit. These points can then be used to promote whatever site the clicker so wishes. I have just recently learned about this particular program so I immediately put it to good use. Judging from the outstanding (by my standards) number of hits this month alone, I’d say the program is effective.
While I appreciate the numbers, I don’t know how this increase could positively affect MKL’s ranking or if it matters at all. Because, honestly, they were ‘empty’ traffic. Sure, they did bring visitors to the site, but not ones of importance. I’m sure they just performed their clicker duties for the points and were not really interested in what I had to say. The latter are the kind of visitors I wish to get and I would do my best to attract them.
I still don’t know what happened in May though.
