My Top Referring Sites for 2010 and Year End Wrap-up

2010 was a great first year for the us to get up and running and established.

It took a few months to get the basic format established and figuring out my niche within a niche.

Starting out much like any blogger I was anxious to get some traffic coming in.

The purpose of this post is to give you an idea of where you can expect to get some actual traffic.

If you're not utilizing any of these sites/services you might want to look into them as they are my top referring sites for 2010.

1. Twitter - I run a pretty aggressive tweet campaign using software such as Tweet Adder that allows me to automate my tweets even while I sleep.

Doing this nets me many highly targeted visits, people click on my links because they found it interesting. My followers for the most part are some what interested in blogging, SEO or social media so I have a decent chance they'll check out my tweets.

Some other related referring sites: HootSuite

2. StumbleUpon - Believe it or not, when the dust settled for 2010 I received almost as many stumbles as I did traffic from my and other's tweets.

I actually had a few days where I received a couple thousand stumbles that seemed to just blow up. If you're not stumbling your own posts or allowing others to do so you can be missing out on some considerable traffic.

3. Adgitize - This is an advertising program you can earn credits or buy them for exchange of showing your own ads. I did both using credits and investing a little bit of money. For the effort it did produce results.

4. Facebook - A no brainer here, everyone and their mother is on Facebook so it makes sense to spend some time on it, make a page, post on groups etc. It has been a solid source of traffic throughout the year.

5. Entrecard - This is another free advertising exchange service that is really great for meeting new bloggers and getting traffic. You can check out my full Entrecard review to see why it's holding down the number five spot.

6. Paper.li - Paper.li is a like a virtual daily newspaper about a certain subject. It's all based off Twitter's hash-tags so that's another reason to start tweeting.

7.Bloggeries - Bloggeries is a great place for any blogger to be, you can submit your own blog and participate on the forums. Honestly I received more traffic from the forums than the directory listing, so if you have a blog about blogging this is definitely a site you need to look into.

Seeing as there are a few hundred different sites that gave me traffic this year I'll stop here.

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I look forward to another year of blogging and expanding the site a bit. Thank you all for all the comments, retweets, e-mails and overall support!

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