When That One Post Draws A Crowd

Sometimes you create a post that manages to get noticed by lots of sites and as a result your traffic goes through the roof.

A few weeks ago I posted an entry that contained a few links to tsunami footage and for over a week my daily hits were above 10,000. Just as the hits were starting to subside I posted an entry that contained pictures of the 100lb woman eating the 6lb burger (11lb with trimmings). If you haven't read the story here it is.

Yesterday I noticed an increase in traffic when some forums started linking to the post but today the hits have gone through the roof. High traffic sites such as Attu, Jaggle and Ollo (that one's new to me) have linked to the post as well as about a dozen forums and as a result I'm registering about 1,600 1,900 2,100 3,500 hits an hour.

I've had newspapers such as The Cincinnati Post asking where I have got the pictures from so that they can use them. I'm the first in search queries for "6lb burger", "100lb woman" in Google. It's crazy! At the moment, practically every hit I'm getting is for the pictures.

Obviously there's no way of judging which news stories are going to be big traffic pullers, but when you get one there's such a buzz that goes with it. If only I could get all those visitors to click on the ads ;o)

Comments

[Kirsty]

Is it 'congratulations' that you have so many readers now, or 'comiserations' for your bandwidth?

[Bruce]

Great job! This is one of the best websites on the net. Keep up the good work.

[inverse]

clicked your ad's for you =) excellent site