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2007

Nat Torkington

Nat Torkington

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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Campbell [02.18.07 03:39 PM]

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!

birthday gifts [04.01.08 07:54 AM]

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.

Framed Art paintings [04.28.08 02:42 AM]

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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