The biggest blog plugs I've received in recent times have come from two of the Net's 800-pound gorillas: Boing Boing and fark.com. Yesterday's fark link, interestingly, didn't send my visitor numbers soaring nearly as much as the ones from Boing Boing. In the 24 hours after fark credited this site, I had only about 4,000-5,000 extra page views. By contrast, when Boing Boing provides a link to Nobody's Business, the extra visitors in the 24 hours thereafter total about twice that (neither number seems particularly earth-shattering, but that could be just me).
The difference in traffic the respective sites generate for yours truly is all the more remarkable because fark links are humorously blurbed in roughly 20-30 words; that format is usually cryptic enough that it necessitates a click-through to find out what the substance of the referenced story is. Boing Boing, on the other hand, usually publishes enough text about the topics it features that the BB posts are more or less self-contained — click-throughs optional.
Anyway, I'm always pleased with extra visitors, although no single link from another blog or site has ever seemed to boost my traffic permanently. Which makes me appreciate my regulars even more. If you're a habitual reader of Nobody's Business, seriously, thank you. I couldn't do it without you. Actually, I could, but it wouldn't be a half as much fun.
I haven't had a link from either of those, but I did notice that you get about three times as many links as the headline of a Instapundit entry than as an update, and about twice as many as you do if you are the second or third "more here" link.
Posted by: Phelps | Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 03:07 PM
Heck, I start and end my day with you. Half the time I feel like I should be bugging you for a cuppa in the morning. 8)
Posted by: Jonathan | Monday, December 01, 2008 at 08:58 AM
I found you through BoingBoing and have become a regular reader, keeping your rss feed on my start page and reading most entries straight away. Don't always agree but what good would that be anyway? Glad you keep writing,
cheers
Andy
Posted by: andy moore | Friday, December 05, 2008 at 07:42 AM