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Blogger Appreciation Day: January 2011

February 5, 2011 By Kelli 13 Comments

Well, I have officially been doing this Meme for 1 solid year. I am so glad that I have my regulars, but there are millions of bloggers out there, I wish I could get more people to play along. I wonder why more people don’t…

Anyway, read on for the quick rules.

Here’s how it works:

Go into your tracking service (I use Google Analytics) and set the time period for January 1st – January 31st.
Find the sites that have referred readers to you and put them in order from most sends to lowest. (I only do blogs and small businesses, not big sites!)
Write a post (like this one) listing your top 10 referrers.
Grab the Blogger Appreciation Day picture and add it to your site or post. (It is also nice to link back to my site, since I am giving you a link )
Link that post up in my LinkyTools below. (Please do not list your current giveaways!! If you want your giveaways linked, send me )
Scroll down and you will see a list of links, simply add your direct post link to it.

Thank You to Brandy of Stitchblade Designs for my new banners! I recommend her for your designing needs and she is affordable and fast!

This month, I paid a lady to list some of my giveaways in different places. It obviously worked because the percentage of referring traffic is over 56% compared to the 38% last month!

Thanks a million to my TOP TEN blog referrals!

I received referral visits from 319 sources during last month! I also want to note that Online Sweepstakes sent me 687 visitors in January. Twitter sent me 286 and FaceBook sent me 227 for those that are curious. Twitter is still much higher for me.

Org Junkie – sent me 317 visits (for participating in Menu Plan Monday!
CashnetSweeps – sent me 254 visits (First time on list)
SweepsAdvantage – sent me 144 visits (First time on list)
Blog Giveaways – sent me 133 visits
Tip Junkie – sent me 81 visits
Picket Fence Blogs – sent me 58 visits
Prizey.net – sent me 51 visits (First time on list)
Easy Lunchboxes – sent me 41 visits (First time on list)
Blog Carnival – sent me 40 visits (First time on list)
Blog Giveaway Directory – sent me 32 visits (First time on list)

Wow! Of those 10, six of them are on here for the first time. That is something, isn’t it?

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Blogger Appreciation Day: December 2010

January 5, 2011 By Kelli 14 Comments

Can you believe that 2010 is over? Did you meet your goals for the year? Have you made new ones for 2011?

I am getting my 3 traffic sources into a more even percentage and that is definitely my goal! So, I must be doing something right on that score at least. LOL! See? Last month, it was 18.75 (so that went down.. hmm), 30.84, and 44.76. It is good to me that I have the referring sites back on par with the search engines. As you may recall, that was my goal during last month’s Blogger Appreciation Day post.

Also, my traffic is still increasing. YAY!

Here’s how it works:

Go into your tracking service (I use Google Analytics) and set the time period for December 1st – December 31st.
Find the sites that have referred readers to you and put them in order from most sends to lowest. (I only do blogs and small businesses, not big sites!)
Write a post (like this one) listing your top 10 referrers.
Grab the Blogger Appreciation Day picture and add it to your site or post.
Link that post up in my LinkyTools below. (Please do not list your current giveaways!! If you want your giveaways linked, send me ) Scroll down and you will see a list of links, simply add your direct post link to it.

Thank You to Brandy of Stitchblade Designs for my new banners! I recommend her for your designing needs and she is affordable and fast!

(It is also nice to link back to my site, since I am giving you a link )

Thanks a million to my TOP TEN blog referrals! I received referral visits from 214 sources during the month of December!

I also want to note that Online Sweepstakes sent me 334 visitors this month. Twitter sent me 121 and FaceBook sent me 51 for those that are curious.

Org Junkie – sent me 494 visitors during December! That is what happens when you link up your MPM every month!
Blog Giveaways – sent me 66 visitors!
Picket Fence Blogs – sent me 48 visitors – that is because my wonderful readers vote for me every day and have me on the first page of the Family blogs! People go there and click to me. YAY! Thank you!
Tip Junkie – sent me 40 visitors. I link up my over 25 dollar value giveaways here.
My Blog Guest – sent me 25 visitors. I go here when I am looking for guest posters for 3 Boys and a Dog.
5 Minutes for Mom – sent me 12 visitors. I sometimes link up my giveaways in there Around the Blogosphere posts
Just Contest Stuff – sent me 12 visitors. Another place to link up my giveaways.
Mom Spark Media – sent me 11 visitors. This is a fairly new ning that I have joined to get more bloggy review opportunities. Stay tuned, I have some good ones coming. LOL!
Simply Stacie – sent me 11 visitors. Thanks, Stac!
Organizing Your Way – sent me 10 visitors. This is strictly from me leaving comments on this site!

Thanks again to everyone and to the other 204 sites that sent visitors my way but didn’t make my top ten list! Also, note come Friday I am starting a new regular post where I will be interviewing other bloggers. I hope you are looking forward to learning about some others out there! If you want to be included, drop me an email at Kelli@3boysandadog.com and I will send you the interview form.

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OMG, I am Number 20 at Picket Fence!

December 14, 2010 By Kelli 4 Comments

Crystal at Crystal and Company just sent me a message on FaceBook letting me know that I was number 20 on Picket Fence! Isn’t that awesome? So, I went and looked and sure enough, I am number 20 with 429 votes! Number 19 only has 431 I could easily be 19! Granted Number 1 has over 2,000 – so, I don’t ever see that happening. LOL!

It just feels so wonderful to know my readers have been voting for me by clicking the Picket Fence ad on my side-bar! I have made it to the first page and have never even mentioned it to you guys!

So, let me just say…

THANK YOU! Y’ALL ARE FABULOUS!

I write this blog because I enjoy it, certainly, but I also write it for you… MY READERS! Without you, I would have no reason to spend the amount of time on it that I do.

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Blogger Appreciation Day: November 2010

December 5, 2010 By Kelli 12 Comments

Well, my traffic is up approximately 53% from last month, but my referral traffic is down… big time. What does that mean? It means I have been concentrating my efforts elsewhere and need to get back to getting my links on other blogs. On the plus side, search engine traffic is up big time! If I can keep search engine traffic up AND raise my referral traffic back up, I will be huge. LOL!

Have you been playing along? I started this for January of this year and have really enjoyed watching my stats grow and seeing where everyone else gets their traffic. I have also found that I don’t utilize guest posting, FaceBook, and Twitter as much and I could. So, I have spent a bit of time this year trying to grow the traffic from those. Have you learned anything by playing this game? So, are you ready to play?

Here’s how it works:

Go into your tracking service (I use Google Analytics) and set the time period for November 1st – November 30th.
Find the sites that have referred readers to you and put them in order from most sends to lowest. (I only do blogs and small businesses, not big sites!)
Write a post (like this one) listing your top 10 referrers.
Grab the Blogger Appreciation Day banner above or button on the sidebar and add it to your site or post.
Link that post up in my LinkyTools below. (Please do not list your current giveaways!! If you want your giveaways linked, send me ) Scroll down and you will see a list of links, simply add your direct post link to it.

Thank You to Brandy of Stitchblade Designs for my new banners! I recommend her for your designing needs as she is affordable and fast!

(It is also nice to link back to my site, since I am giving you a link )

Thanks a million to my TOP TEN blog referrals!

I received referral visits from 178 sources during the month of November! I also want to note that Online Sweepstakes sent me 548 visitors this month.

Twitter sent me 143 and FaceBook sent me 66 for those that are curious

1. Tip Junkie – 33 visits

2. Just Contest Stuff – 23 visits

3. Crystal and Company – 19 visits

4. Dimes to Vines – 18 visits

5. Organizing Your Way – 17 visits

6. Simply Stacie – 11 visits

7. Blog Giveaways – 6 visits

8. Org Junkie – 6 visits (whoops, haven’t been doing my menu!)

9. Lady and The Blog – 5 visits (first time on list)

10. Murray Newlands – 5 visits

Pitiful, isn’t it? If you go back to look at last month’s Org Junkie alone brought me 219 visits instead of the 6 this month!) Yeah, you know what I will be doing on Monday – posting my menu plan. LOL! Anyway, link yours up below:

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Blogger Appreciation Day: October 2010

November 5, 2010 By Kelli 14 Comments

Another month is dead and gone! Before we know it it is going to be summer again. LOL!

Here’s how it works:

Go into your tracking service (I use Google Analytics) and set the time period for October 1st – October 30th.
Find the sites that have referred readers to you and put them in order from most sends to lowest. (I only do blogs and small businesses, not big sites!)
Write a post (like this one) listing your top 10 referrers.
Grab the Blogger Appreciation Day picture and add it to your site or post.
Link that post up in my LinkyTools below. (Please do not list your current giveaways!! ) Scroll down and you will see a list of links, simply add your direct post link to it.

Thank You! to Callista of Callista’s Ramblings for sending me a cute picture for my monthly meme.

(It is also nice to link back to my site, since I am giving you a link )

Thanks a million to my TOP TEN blog referrals!

I received referral visits from 182 sources during the month of October! I also want to note that Online Sweepstakes sent me 349 visitors this month.

Twitter sent me 101 and FaceBook sent me 30 for those that are curious Wow, Twitter went up BIG TIME and FaceBook went down. I guess I have learned that I can’t concentrate on both at once.

Org Junkie – sent me 219 visitors (this is where I link my Menu Plan Monday)
Blog Giveaways – sent me 39 visitors
Tip Junkie – sent me 31 visitors
Dimes 2 Vines – sent me 11 visitors
Crystal and Company – sent me 9 visitors
Organizing Your Way – sent me 8 visitors
Simply Stacie – sent me 8 visitors
Murray Newlands – sent me 8 visitors
Growmap – sent me 6 visitors
Spell Outloud – sent me 6 visitors (FIRST TIME ON LIST)

I just realized that I am participating in a giveaway thing with 3 other bloggers and none of them made the list. That means all this work isn’t worth it? How can that be? Maybe it will go up this month…. hmmm