When an A-list blogger hits your site
On the 16th of January something really nice happened to this weblog. The happy news came to me through the “log files”. I saw some strange referrals from…Micro Persuasion.com, the weblog of A-list (PR) blogger Steve Rubel.
Steve had traced my short note on 5 year Wikipedia, as he notes in his comments via PubSub, and linked to it on his links for 2006-01-17 post. I felt and still feel quite honoured.
All very nice for this weblog, that only started on the 4th of January this year. In terms of additional traffic, the Rubel link caused a temporary increase in the number of unique visitors of around 25 per day, but only lasting for about three days. This probably has to do with the fact that the link list has moved into Steve’s archives now.
I am currently back at around 50 unique visitors per day, of which maybe 50% caused by search engine robots (the Google crawler most prominent). What is also nice to notice, is that I get a lot of traffic based on searches with terms “billy joel” and “set list”. You clearly notice the effect of writing post with keywords that are “hot” for that moment.
Last but not least, I saw that on Bloglines there are now two subscribers to this blog’s RSS feed: me and …? (I wonder who!).
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posted Jan 23, 10:16 PM on Jan 23, 2006 |
category: This blog