Blogs and Small Businesses

1. Online Sweepstakes sent 381 people over to enter my giveaways!
2. Contest Girl sent 146 people to my giveaways.
3. Tightwad in Utah sent 45 people to my giveaways. She only lists giveaways with less than 200 entries and my August giveaways had a lot more entries than that.
4. Revive Old Post sent 19 people my way. This is a WordPress plug-in I use to tweet out about older posts on my site that are still relevant today.
5. Infinite Sweeps sent 12 people to check out my giveaways. I’ve never heard of them before but someone listed my giveaways there!

Linkys that Send Traffic

1. A Bowlful of Lemons–One Project at a Time-Tuesday mornings.
2. Living Well Spending Less-Thrifty Thursdays
3. Someday Crafts-Whatever Goes Wednesdays
4. Turn It Up Tuesday–Monday nights 8pm ET
5. The Mommy Club-Wednesdays

The Biggies

1. Google- 4541 Gah! This keeps going down!!
2. Pinterest-1639 Too low.
3. Yahoo- 357 A little improvement.
4. Bing-283 A bit of improvement here too.
5. Facebook-277  Creeping back up, engagement is just so low here.

How was your August? I hope it was better than mine. Here’s looking to a great September!

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Blogs and Small Businesses

1. WholeMom listed my half bath giveaway on her site and sent 1,667 over to enter!
2. I had some big giveaways in July and Online-Sweepstakes sent 330 people over to check them out.
3. ContestGirl sent 85 people to my giveaways.
4. Twitterfeed sent 25 people my way. The exact same number as last month!
5. AllSheCooks included my Hassleback Potatoes recipe in her 52 weeks of No-Repeat Meal Plans and sent some traffic my way!

Linkys that bring Traffic

1. Turn it Up Tuesday-I am a co-host but I received a lot of traffic from the host’s page when my Using Linkys to Gain Readers, Followers, Friends and Fans post was featured as Best of the Best!
2. A Bowlful of Lemons-One Project at a Time-Tuesday mornings
3. Living Well Spending Less-Thrifty Thursday-Thursday mornings
4. Smart Schoolhouse-Whimsy Wednesday-Wednesday mornings
5. A Peek Into My Paradise-Happiness is Homemade-Sunday-Thursday

The Biggies

• Google-5,196 way down again
• Pinterest- 1,667 up a little from last month but stil way lower than normal
• Yahoo-319 up a few from last night but still too low
• Bing-249 virtually the same as last month
• Facebook-226 way down from last month and half of that was from mobile users.

StumbleUpon was way down too. My summer break is over and I am back at it full time so hopefully my numbers will be increasing as well!

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Blogs and Small Businesses

1. A Bowlful of Lemons I join her linky every Tuesday. In June, 82 people visited The Mom Maven from her site.
2. We have a tie! Online-Sweepstakes and Contest Girl each sent 77 people to my giveaways.
3. 33 people from the Thrifty Thursday linky at Living Well Spending Less.
4. WholeMom shared about my half bath giveaway on her blog and she sent 31 people over to enter.
5. My tribe-mates and I all use TwitterFeed to share each other’s feeds and 25 people stopped by thanks to those links.

The Biggies

• Google 5,540 way down
• Pinterest 1,048 way down
• Facebook 420 highest of the year by over 100 visits!
• Yahoo 304 down again
• Bing 247 down again

I have no idea what I am doing to make Facebook work but I’m not going to change what I am doing there. StumbleUpon traffic was up in June. How was your June? Let me know in the comments.

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Blogs and Small Businesses

1. Online-Sweepstakes sent 392 people over to enter my giveaways in May!
2. Contest Girl sent 72 people to enter my giveaways.
3. Living Well Spending Less sent 38 visitors from her Thrifty Thursday linky.
4. Epic Mommy Adventures sent 24 people. I co-host the Turn It Up Tuesday linky with her!
5. A Bowlful of Lemons sent 21 people from her One Project at a Time Linky.

The Biggies

1. Google 6238 down again
2. Pinterest 2032 back up closer to where it should be.
3. Yahoo 315 down again
4. Facebook 287 2nd highest this year!!
5. Bing 231 down again

So search traffic was way down but referrals from Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and even G+ were up. Considering all the linkys I participate in, traffic from those aren’t what I’d hope they would be. I’m not going to stop though because new eyes are new eyes and hopefully some of them will subscribe and come back!

How was your May? Did you write a Top 5 post? Leave a link in the comments.

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Blogs and Small Businesses

1. LivingWellSpeningLess.com sent 64 people my way. I take part in her Thrifty Thursday linky each week.
2. LuvABargain.com featured my Sweet & Salty Easter Treats in her Easter round-up and 49 people clicked through to check my recipe out.
3. Online-Sweepstakes dropped to number 3 this month only sending 31 people my way. I’m sure this is because my giveaway was for local people only.
4. SkipToMyLou.org sent 29 people to my site from her Made By You Monday linky.
5. Shabbynest.blogspot.com sent 26 people over from her Frugal Friday linky.

The Biggies

1. Google 6,597 (down)
2. Pinterest 1,433 (way down)
3. Yahoo 329 (down)
4. Bing 273 (down)
5. FaceBook 140 (way down)

I am very happy that my traffic from G+ tripled in April! StumbleUpon traffic was down a bit.

In case you missed them, I did a Time Management for Bloggers 4 part series. I hope you will find these posts helpful.

Time Management for Bloggers Part 1 Writing

Time Management for Bloggers Part 2 Social Media

Time Management for Bloggers Part 3 Household Responsibilities

Time Management for Bloggers Part 4 Family Time

I hope you had a great April!

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Blogs and Small Businesses

1. Online-Sweepstakes.com comes in at #1 again. I had 3 giveaways this month and this site sent 221 visitors my way.
2. Contest Girl, another giveaway site sent 88 people over to enter my giveaways.
   
3. SmartSchoolhouse sent 39 people my way. I link up to her Whimsy Wednesday linky each week.
4.  In 4th place we have a tie! Both of these sites sent 26 people to my posts: SkiptoMyLou.org hosts the Made By You Monday linky and TightwadInUtah is a place for low entry giveaways.
5. We have another tie with each of these sites referring 16 people. MomSpark, where I am featured in some posts about the Disney treat Dole Whip and Blogelina where my post Your Blog Needs Social Sharing Buttons was featured as part of Blogger’s Night Out.

The Biggies

1. Google 7077 (increase)
2. Pinterest 2266 (slight decrease)
3. Yahoo 405 (huge increase)
4. Bing 318 (increase)
5. Facebook 286 (huge increase)

Twitter was up and Google+ held its course so things are looking good in those area as well. One thing I have done to be more consistent in my social media usage is followed my Printable Daily Social Media Checklist which I have created as a FREE download for all of my readers.

I hope you had a good March and an overall great first quarter!

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Top 5 Blogs and Small Businesses

1. Online-Sweepstakes.com is the best free place on the web to list your blog giveaways. I only had 1 giveaway this month but I received 47 referrals from this site.
2. Tightwad in Utah is another great place for low entry giveaways. They sent 45 people my way in February.
3. MomSpark wrote another post about Dole Whip and graciously linked to me again! This new post sent me 39 visitors.
4. The Shabby Nest hosts the Frugal Friday linky party and 28 people visited my site from her linky!
5. Living Well Spending Less hosts the Thrifty Thursday linky party and 20 people visited my site from her linky!

The Biggies

1. Google 6,222
2. Pinterest 2,652
3. Bing 286
4. Yahoo 282
5. Facebook 159

My G+ traffic tripled this month and I am now seeing traffic from StumbleUpon so I count both of those as wins. I hope your blog had a good February and an even better March!

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As I dug through my analytics for this post I found one very interesting tidbit. I had 7 visitors find my site from Wikipedia. I know 7 isn’t a big number but Wikipedia is a pretty big deal. As I researched further I found out that my 8/8/11 post about Jake and the Neverland Pirates is cited in the entry for Jake and the Neverland Pirates! This really made me happy!

Here are January’s top 5 traffic referrers.

Top 5 Blogs and Small Businesses

1. Online-Sweepstakes.com sent 390 people toe the 4 giveaways I hosted in January!

2. ContestGirl sent 71 people to my giveaways.

3. GiveawayScoop sent 45 people to my giveaways.

4. ReedyCreekRadio.com sent 14 to visit my site. I listen to ReedyCreekRadio and I hang out in their chat room to talk Disney whenever I can.

5. MomSpark sent 12 people over. I was included in a post on their site over a year ago!

The Biggies

1. Google 7,283
2. Pinterest 4,285
3. Bing 265
4. Yahoo 216
5. Facebook 205

I am using a much different process for my social media this year and it seems to be paying off in some categories but not others. I am having more success in G+ than ever before so I count that as a win!

How is your blog doing? What strategies are working for you? Please share them in the comments.

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Top 5 Blogs and Small Businesses

I didn’t have many giveaways in December so some of these numbers are lower than usual but I am not complaining.

1. Tightwadin Utah.com 65 referrals-This is a great site to submit your low entry giveaways to.
2. Online-Sweepstakes.com 41 referrals
3. blog.babygizmo.com 26 referrals-They added one of my recipes to their New Years Eve Dessert Ideas post.
4. ContestGirl.com 21 referrals
5. GiveawayScoop.com 14 referrals

The Biggies

1. Google 9,779-Almost double last month!
2. Pinterest 3,794-Second best month of the year!
3. Yahoo 370-moving up in the rankings
4. Bing 346-another increase
5. Facebook-300-Third best month of the year

For 2014 I want to continue to maximize my Pinterest work and do better with Twitter and Facebook. I am also looking to get involved with more link-ups so that more new eyes will be seeing my posts.

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Blogs and Small Businesses

1. QVC sent 145 visitors my way! I know QVC isn’t really a small business but it isn’t a social channel either so I am including them here. They ranked so high because they shared my post about the QiPillow.
2. Online-Sweepstakes.com sent 120 people to my giveaways in November.
3. Tightwad in Utah sent 93 visitors to my low entry giveaways last month.
4. Contest Girl sent 81 people over to enter my giveaways.
5. NotOneOrdinaryMoment referred 16 people to my giveaways when she featured me in her post about Top 10 Sites for Low Entry Giveaways.

The Biggies

1. Google was way up again with 5741.
2. Pinterest was down  bit again, but still good with 2440.
3. Facebook has returned to the 3rd spot with 343.
4. Yahoo moves to 4th with 321.
5. Bing is 5th with 263, an increase since last month
6. Again Twitter is in 6th with a pathetic 139.

Twitter referrals just keep falling and falling. I am working to do more conversing and less broadcasting on Twitter but I need to re-think my strategy for the new year. I hope you had a great November and I hope that December is even better!!

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