We keep an eye out for mentions of our properties. Two reasons: 1) useful suggestions and 2) mis-information

I recently read this post on optimizing a specific website. One of their suggestions was the following:

Check stat metrics and see when the last time BlogTopSites or BlogFlux sent you traffic — you’d be surprised. Why advertise for a site that isn’t sending you any readers?

Luckily, I have all the stats I need to back up our claims.

I ran some quick numbers on both Blog Top Sites and Blog Flux that counts the number of sites that have gotten a minimum number of hits:

Referer Over 10 Hits Over 100 Hits Over 1000 Hits Over 10,000 Hits Over 25,000 Hits
Blog Top Sites 25,299 4212 336 7 4
Blog Flux 47,353 13,016 132 11 9

So not only do they generate traffic, but they can send quite a bit.

Two other things:
1. You don’t need to link to Blog Flux to be listed. Never have, never will. People do because they like what we’ve built
2. Blog Top Sites is also a source of uniques/pageviews. It’s simple, but quite a few people use it as their basic stat-tracker

Overall, Blog Top Sites has sent out roughly 2.9 million hits, and Blog Flux has sent out over 4.5 million. Combined, the two get over 40,000 unique visitors a day - surely you want the chance to have your blog appear before them! :)