Awesome--I thought--finally I might actually get some traffic to this blog. And--voila--I did. Overnight, and ever since, my traffic has increased like 350%. In the interest of full disclosure, that means that I went from roughly 5 or fewer (ok, probably fewer) readers to an average of about 20. But pretend I didn't just reveal that and be impressed with the 350% figure (but don't correct me if the math is wrong; just let me revel in my imaginary rise to glory).
Naturally that huge surge in traffic was a result of the link to my blog being included on Alltop, right? After all, to say Alltop gets a lot more traffic than this blog is such a gross understatement as to not even be worthy of typing. But you know what I mean--a link to my blog on a (in my opinion, at least) somewhat popular website means all those people will click on it, right?
The answer: sadly, no. I believe I've had a total of 10 visits referred from Alltop. However, referrals from Google searches for "Sprint Instinct sucks" or some variant of that? Bingo: 67 visits. E.g. at least 75% of all traffic to this blog since that post has resulted from people Googling "Instinct sucks."
Therefore, this post serves two purposes:
- Case study of traffic increase (or not) as a result of link on high-traffic website
- More fodder for people searching for "Instinct sucks."
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