In just a few hours my blog went from an average of 20 views a day to more than 5,000. And it was all because of one link.
Two days ago I wrote this post because I was curious about who was on the most TIME magazine covers in history.
I figured another news site, Gawker.com, might find the information I found intriguing, especially because the post was somewhat relevant (the end of the year, Obama’s record-breaking pace, etcetera).
I submitted my link to Gawker’s tips inbox, and a few hours later it was published on Gawker.com.
Later that day I was surprised to get an e-mail from a producer with the NBC Nightly News who asked me to call right away to verify that it was I who had researched the numbers and created the chart. He said he wanted to include a short blurb about it that evening.
And, sure enough, just a few hours later, my blog Teqnolog was mentioned by Brian Williams in this primetime clip. It was after watching that clip that I first realized I had multiple personalities.
By the end of the day traffic to my blog had skyrocketed far beyond the norm. In fact, Teqnolog was listed as #1 on WordPress.com’s list of the fastest growing blogs. The post was listed in WordPress.com’s top 50 posts of the day.
It wasn’t until the next day that I realized the story had been spread online.
I found the same story on Yahoo! News, Asian News International, The New Nixon, and even USA Today and the New York Post. Those, and quite a few other blogs and online news sites.
Now that’s what I call a viral post.
Here’s a look at the difference in Teqnolog’s traffic: Read the rest of this entry »
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