It really does boggle me. Yesterday, I noticed a sudden jump in the number of visitors I was receiving. I checked where they were actually going to. It turns out, over 50 people had just viewed my blog My top 5 website Layouts. I was shocked. How was there a sudden rise in the number of people reading my blog? I decided to investigate by first checking Google Search Engine Results.

Searching for “top website layouts” displayed my blog at about rank 2 in the UK and rank 6 on dot com.

You have NO idea how happy I was – it seemed all of my hard work was paying off.

I decided to leave it and come back later – just to see how many people would actually visit it. Around 6 hours later, it topped at about 350 and then began to slow down – I wondered why?

I checked the Google Search Engine Results again and to my surprise, not even on page 3! My blog post on dzone was there on page 2 but nothing about me. Why was this? From everything to nothing in about 5 hours? It slightly annoyed me but also put me in the mood to find out why – back to Google!