In case you’re curious, here’s a snapshot of the Digg effect hitting this blog, from beginning to end:
11/22 - 12/21/2008
In short: our average daily traffic, from July through Dec 14, 2008, was between 10 and 50 page views. On Dec 15, after appearing on the Bacon Reddit (?!), we had 292 page views. On Dec 16, after appearing on the front page of Digg (?!!), we had 20,960 page views. Even today, after the wave has passed, we’re still getting several hundred page views a day on the bacon post, including a trickle of referrals from digg.com/page45 and the like (who are these people?!).
Bottom line: write more about bacon, even if it’s stupid.
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