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English-Exercises.org Traffic Explosion: From 50 to 700 Daily Visits

Five months in and english-exercises.org has gone from a handful of visitors to 700+ daily clicks. Bing loves us, ChatGPT recommends us, and students from Mexico to Uzbekistan are doing our exercises.

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Something unexpected happened this month. English-exercises.org went from around 50 clicks a day to averaging 700. That’s a 14x increase in a few weeks, putting us at around 15,000 monthly visits.

The site is only five months old. We now have over 2,785 exercises across 117 exercise sets.

Where the Traffic Is Coming From

The mix is genuinely surprising. We’re getting visits from:

  • University websites
  • Private language academies
  • Individual students
  • Schools
  • Bing search

That last one is the big one. We’re regularly appearing on the first page of Bing when people search for English exercises for specific grammar points. For a site this young, that’s unusual.

The ChatGPT Effect

Here’s something I didn’t expect: ChatGPT is recommending our website. Students ask it for help with grammar exercises, and it’s sending them to us. That’s bringing in a decent chunk of traffic.

I didn’t do anything to make this happen. The site just seems to match what people are looking for when they ask an AI for grammar practice resources.

Google? Still Nothing

We’re still sandboxed in Google. They haven’t figured out we exist yet. Most new sites spend 6-12 months in Google’s sandbox before ranking, so this is normal. But it does mean all our current traffic is coming from Bing, direct visits, and AI referrals.

When Google finally picks us up, things could get interesting.

Traffic by Country

The global spread is fascinating:

  1. Mexico – by far the biggest
  2. Uzbekistan – wasn’t expecting this
  3. Ukraine
  4. Spain
  5. Poland

It’s genuinely worldwide. Students from every continent are finding the exercises and using them. Really cool to see the site helping people learn English across such different contexts.

By volume, the winners are:

  1. Present Simple – the most searched, most practised
  2. Conditionals – close second

These are foundational topics that students at every level need. Present Simple is where most learners start, and Conditionals trip people up from A2 all the way to C1.

Behind the Scenes: Improving the Workflow

Every time we create a new grammar module, I find ways to improve the agentic workflow. The process keeps getting tighter.

Recent additions include infographics for:

  • Present Simple
  • Past Simple
  • Conditionals
  • Comparative and Superlative

Past Simple infographic showing the 5 main uses: completed actions, series of actions, past habits, past states, and stories/narratives

Each infographic is paired with research into the grammar point. We dig into what the actual common mistakes are, what confuses students, and what the research says about teaching that structure. That research then informs how we design the exercises.

It’s a feedback loop: research informs exercises, exercises reveal what students struggle with, that informs more research.

What’s Next

The immediate plan is to keep doing what’s working:

  1. More grammar modules with the improved workflow
  2. More infographics for visual learners
  3. Wait for Google to notice we exist
  4. Track what ChatGPT recommends and make sure those pages are solid

The traffic growth has been organic. No ads, no paid promotion. Just exercises that help students learn, showing up where people are searching.

Five months in, 2,785+ exercises, 15k monthly visits from around the world. Not bad for a side project.

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