Being Delicious
My friends at Silverstripe open source CMS just posted some hard numbers on their recent Delicious/Ajaxian/stumbleupon traffic. It's an interesting glimpse into the difference in traffic between being listed in a blog about a specific technology like Ajaxian versus being listed in a bookmarks site like Delicious. I wonder how the fact that delicious is still nerd territory influenced the numbers--it'd be fascinating to see traffic patterns around posts on knitting, cooking, or sailing where the alpha geek connection isn't so obvious.
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Just on the reporting side I love the
"glued an apache log and an old Celeron with speakers together with a bit of PHP so that everyone in our office would hear a classic sound when a download of SilverStripe occured"
We did something similar for a client for sales and he loved it. Why cant reporting apps do that!
It's strange how delicious somehow managed to get the geeky image that it did. That must have been pure coincidence. A lot of social networks, I think, somehow manage to find themselves popular in a particular grouping of people by sheer accident. It all depends who first finds and uses the site, I guess, because they will tell their friends and then whala! You somehow have managed to attract a demographic of some kind without even having targeted them. True, you may have targeted them, but I think that the geek image of delicious is probably pure coincidence.
I think I should do the same with our blogs and sites. It’s been a while since I handled the SEO, creating backlinks, and all for our sites and blogs. I realized it’s already almost one year and 6 months since I last checked our traffic and all I had was some blah blah graphs and that’s it. I admit I never made use of Google Analytics to know the source of our traffic or the location of our visitors. I guess it’s high time for me to exhaust all resources. One question though – the post mentioned the Internet as one source of its pie graph, where and how exactly can this be done?
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