How to get a thousand hits in one day
- Spend a few years working on your blog.
- Make some really interesting pages.
- Keep working on your blog.
- Join Stumbleupon
- Stumble for a while (this is really easy to do, remember to “like” or “dislike”) so you know how to define ‘awesome’ in your topic.
- Keep working on your blog.
- Make some more really interesting pages.
- “Thumb up” one of your most awesome pages and review it (You might mention that it’s yours, I always do), make sure it’s in the right category
- Watch your traffic stats go nuts.
- Gloat (just a little.)
Step #10, gloating engaged
You might also want to make sure that you have more than enough bandwidth available to your site to accommodate crazy amounts of traffic. You might consider backing up your site on a completely different server/host so that if you do exceed your bandwidth limits you can quickly redirect all that traffic to the backup.