dmr
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I think that's what may be happening to me ...
To make a long story long ...
Back in 2006 I started a blog. I didn't really have a purpose at first, but it kind of developed into a photo and trivia blog.
Over the past couple of years, the blog usually gets between 10 and 30 hits per day, very consistently. I sometimes have seen peaks at 50 or so, and once I recall breaking 100.
I know a few here are semi-regular visitors to my blog.
I started doing a few neighborhood walk-throughs and similar features along the lines of what appears on Kevin Walsh's "Forgotten NY", which I'm sure many of you are familiar with. I've also done some Las Vegas items and a few on Chicago.
Anyway, in November of 2008 I published an item called "Forgotten Cuisine", remember some of the various restaurants, mostly the Italian steak houses, which I remember from my early years in Omaha a few decades ago.
But anyway, a couple weeks ago, beginning March 8, I noticed a major spike in hits. 150 (a record) on Monday, March 8, and 188 on Tuesday, another record, and peaking that week at 339 on March 11.
I was able to figure out in the logs that many of those hits were coming via e-mail, so I wrote to one of those who commented and found out that what started it was that somebody had posted the link to a local high school alumni mailing list, and he said the list had about 200 or so members.
Asked and answered, or so I thought. Case closed, right?
Wrong!
But wait, there's more!
This past week the hit counter has absolutely exploded! It's off the chart!
Starting Monday, March 15, the hit counter just kept skyrocketing day after day to a peak of 845 on Thursday the 18th!
Remember that I've always been tickled pink when I got over 30 or so per day, and this was a over a 20-fold total eclipse of this number!
The only thing I can figure out is that those who saw this on the original "Bunny Net" mailing list liked it, passed it on to others, who passed it on to others, etc .. Rinse, repeat, and the whole thing snowballed so to speak. I know that the "200 or so" list members sure don't account for the 800-some hits on Thursday and such.
This weekend I found referrals from a boating BBS system, of all things! 🙂
Anyway, I thought the group here might be interested, since I know a number of you here have blogs. (And yes, I regularly read a number of them.)
I'm attaching the graph of the traffic increase just to illustrate the magnitude of what I've been seeing. The "normal" traffic before March 8 is just "buried" in the lower extreme of the graph.
Oh, if you're curious about the item that went viral, here's the direct link, but I'm not trying to push for yet more traffic. I honestly don't think it would be of any great interest to most of the gang here ...
http://omababe.blogspot.com/2008/11/forgotten-cuisine.html
The main blog link, of course, appears below.
To make a long story long ...
Back in 2006 I started a blog. I didn't really have a purpose at first, but it kind of developed into a photo and trivia blog.
Over the past couple of years, the blog usually gets between 10 and 30 hits per day, very consistently. I sometimes have seen peaks at 50 or so, and once I recall breaking 100.
I know a few here are semi-regular visitors to my blog.
I started doing a few neighborhood walk-throughs and similar features along the lines of what appears on Kevin Walsh's "Forgotten NY", which I'm sure many of you are familiar with. I've also done some Las Vegas items and a few on Chicago.
Anyway, in November of 2008 I published an item called "Forgotten Cuisine", remember some of the various restaurants, mostly the Italian steak houses, which I remember from my early years in Omaha a few decades ago.
But anyway, a couple weeks ago, beginning March 8, I noticed a major spike in hits. 150 (a record) on Monday, March 8, and 188 on Tuesday, another record, and peaking that week at 339 on March 11.
I was able to figure out in the logs that many of those hits were coming via e-mail, so I wrote to one of those who commented and found out that what started it was that somebody had posted the link to a local high school alumni mailing list, and he said the list had about 200 or so members.
Asked and answered, or so I thought. Case closed, right?
Wrong!
But wait, there's more!
This past week the hit counter has absolutely exploded! It's off the chart!
Starting Monday, March 15, the hit counter just kept skyrocketing day after day to a peak of 845 on Thursday the 18th!
Remember that I've always been tickled pink when I got over 30 or so per day, and this was a over a 20-fold total eclipse of this number!
The only thing I can figure out is that those who saw this on the original "Bunny Net" mailing list liked it, passed it on to others, who passed it on to others, etc .. Rinse, repeat, and the whole thing snowballed so to speak. I know that the "200 or so" list members sure don't account for the 800-some hits on Thursday and such.
This weekend I found referrals from a boating BBS system, of all things! 🙂
Anyway, I thought the group here might be interested, since I know a number of you here have blogs. (And yes, I regularly read a number of them.)
I'm attaching the graph of the traffic increase just to illustrate the magnitude of what I've been seeing. The "normal" traffic before March 8 is just "buried" in the lower extreme of the graph.
Oh, if you're curious about the item that went viral, here's the direct link, but I'm not trying to push for yet more traffic. I honestly don't think it would be of any great interest to most of the gang here ...
http://omababe.blogspot.com/2008/11/forgotten-cuisine.html
The main blog link, of course, appears below.
