It’s true, my next to nothing blog just boomed to a next to something blog in the past several days. In three days one of my article that lead to this boom got over 4,000 hits per day. I don’t know about you but to me I think that’s success. The booming of this blog wasn’t due to my style of writing like I hoped, it was due to getting in the position first to distribute pictures of an event before everyone else. Pictures of celebrities and their birthdays and weddings seems to be very powerful when attracting people to a site.

Miss World 1994, Aishwarya Rai, recently got married and her wedding pictures were hard to find on the web. I got my hands on them and posted them on my blog because it’s a BBC recognized recent event and I’m a fan of Bollywood. Without realizing it, I got massive amounts of hits from Google’s organic search. Key phrases such as “aishwarya rai’s wedding picture” got me in the top listings on Google.

So I’m Learning
I’m actually learning the whole concept of the blogpshere. Instead of posting just unique information, good blogs have unique recent news. If you think about it, it make sense; the first one who brings the news out to the public will always have more attention. John Chow went through the same experience with his article, The World’s Most High-Tech Urinal, and that article got his blog to be exposed to the main stream blogsphere. About 7 months ago, John Chow’s blog didn’t have that much traffic but now since his blog is exposed to a lot of people, he gets over 200,000 unique hits a month.

As you can see from the graph above, taken from Google Analytics, my traffic surged up from getting around 400 unique hits a day to over 4000 hits a day. Hopefully, since this site is exposed and a lot of users know about this site now, I hope they’ll come back to visit often in the future.

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