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   10/31/09

   dbowles1017

   What are you using to look at your visitors?

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      10/31/09

      carsonfb

      Google Analytics and the StatPress plug-in for WordPress. Both indicate that the traffic is coming from StumbleUpon.
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   10/31/09

   SoftwareGal

   I just don't know how but you can track each SU user who viewed your page. then you can see their tags/or your page that has been tagged under 'what tags'. by looking at the majority tags, you maybe can figure it out. Just my IMO.

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      10/31/09

      carsonfb

      Thanks, that's a good idea.
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   10/31/09

   carsonfb

   Wow, the post has now had over 400 hits today. My previous record (before the 100 or so yesterday) was only about 20. I'm not sure what I did, but I hope I can reproduce it.

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      10/31/09

      MadameX

      While there are a lot of factors, including the tags on the post, one of the biggest factors is who "discovered" the post. Well-established users in a particular category tend to draw a lot more traffic--I have a couple of posts originally discovered by Timethief that have received several thousand "random" hits from Stumbleupon.
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   10/31/09

   MadameX

   When you're seeing that many hits in a short period of time to one page, it's generally because it's being shown to people who hit the "stumble" button. You can tell if the traffic is coming from another user's page or from search by the referrer information in your stats--if it's a user page or a search phrase, that information will be included.

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      10/31/09

      carsonfb

      The referral address in my logs is pasted below. I am not sure what this means (other than obviously they came from a link from StumbleUpon).
      
      www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http://dungeon.ballweb.org/2009/09/25/jac...