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I Obviously Don't "Get" This Internet Thing.

         

Planet13

8:09 am on Aug 31, 2011 (gmt 0)

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So I check my logs from over the last 24 hours and see that one page that normally doesn't get much traffic had a big spike in visitors since yesterday. It's the most popular page on my site over the last 24 hours.

I check google analytics and the referrals are all from some blogspot page.

So I check out the blog and it is some long, rambling post by some guy who sounds like everyone's crazy uncle after they have downed one too many Mickey's Big Mouths.

The blog post isn't even related to my subject, and he linked to my widgets page with some totally unappealing anchor text like, "yeah, I have some widgets" or something like that.

So I just gotta shake my head, because I can't see why in the world anyone would read this guy's blog in the first place - and read it three-quarters of the way through to come across our link. And then click on a link that has probably some of the weakest anchor text ever written.

Apparently, the secret to having a successful blog is to smoke a lot of dope and write a lot of crazy conspiracy theory posts...

sem4u

8:14 am on Aug 31, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Was it a 9/11 conspiracy blog post by any chance? There was a documentary on BBC TV on Monday night about that. It might explain the surge in traffic to this guy's blog...but maybe not people clicking on the link to your site.

Leosghost

11:18 am on Aug 31, 2011 (gmt 0)

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write a lot of crazy conspiracy theory posts


works for David Icke..

I suspect his past also may well have involved some large quantities of Afghanical substances..whilst watching V ;-)

Planet13

9:44 pm on Aug 31, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Was it a 9/11 conspiracy blog post by any chance?


It was something along those lines...

Before he linked to us, we didn't have anything related to 9/11 on that page (and hardly anything on the site at all), but as it turns out we are just now implementing a survey about it, so I am adding links to our survey on that page.

Well see how it goes.

I guess the whole thing about this is my inability to predict what crazy things will become popular. I'm either too smart for the internet or far too dumb... and right now I AIN'T looking too smart.