The Surge November 23, 2007
Posted by Michael in Commenting Tips, Ducks.trackback
I’m not talking about Iraq — I’m talking about our traffic.
Yesterday evening, I noticed that we had gotten a sudden spike in traffic, about 450 hits, on Topless Swedish Women Fight for Equal Rights, a post that had scrolled off the main page.
I assumed that visitors were showing up to see topless Swedish women, and leaving disappointed. Just for kicks, I scurried over to AOSHQ. Ace had posted on the same story (a couple of days after IB — *snicker*). I recalled that in the comments, Phinn had linked to a pic from some foreign-language newspaper allegedly showing the protesters. So, I grabbed the pic and appended it to my post (below the break, with an NSFW warning), just to see what would happen. This was, I confess, a shameless exercise in traffic pandering.
Holy Moley! Here come the Japanese!!!
Of course, I already knew that hooters sell, having successfully pandered for traffic with Jessica Alba and Nikki Cox and so forth.
But jeez. Today, we’re roughly doubling our single-day traffic records as measured by both WordPress and Sitemeter. We have already closed out our WordPress day (based on Greenwich Mean Time) with 13,405 views.
Apparently, nekkid Swedish hooters are very popular in Japan. Most of our traffic today came from The Land of the Rising Sun. Well, something is rising over there. If you check the most recent comments on the “Topless Swedish Women” post, and the blogs that they link back to, the fonts are not displaying correctly. That’s because the traffic is all coming from Japan.
The intertubes can be a very strange place.
first! but that’s only because I have no life….
When we were dining at J.T. Farnham’s we found out they’d be on the Food Network in November, because they had a big poster of the host, Guy, of the “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives,” show. I happened to hear it on the tube tonight while blogging and got real excited.
Clams were great! Memorable. The views of the grassy marshland were beautiful.
Did you know that only people who live around the Cape Ann area and tourists are the only ones who know “Cape Ann”?
The rest of us call it “the North Shore” or “Gloucester” or “near Gloucester.”
I’m going to make a separate post for those clams, and delete the reference here. Scroll up for more info about J.T. Farnham’s.
You can’t throw a link in for the Jessica Alba post? Geez.
Just for you, Cranky.
Jessica Alba.
That post somehow worked its way up the Google Images list and jacked our traffic from November 2006 to January 2007.
The funny thing is that when I wrote that post, I had no idea that the pic was anyone famous. I was writing about the anniversary of the bikini, so I just grabbed a “bikini” pic from Google Images. I didn’t know it was Jessica Alba.
Wow. The tidal wave of hits from Japan continues. Click here and you will see what I mean.
Who knew that Scandi hooters meant so much to the Japanese?
So it’s like a Pearl Harbor invasion?
mmmmmm….
boobies.