Google Organic Search Sent 16350 Visitors to Blogstorm Yesterday

by Patrick Altoft on June 22, 2008

As some of you might be aware yesterday was the First Day of Summer (not that the weather was anything like summer) and I happened to write a blog post about it.

To celebrate the occasion Google changed their logo and linked the logo through to some search results for “first day of summer 21 june“. As you might have guessed my blog post came up in the number one spot.

Being number one for this search term sent about 16,000 extra visitors to Blogstorm. Not bad for a Saturday when traffic is normally quite low.

The search term “first day of summer” was the hottest term on Google Trends thanks to the link from the Google logo.

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1 Dorian 22/06/2008 at 6:53 pm: You are a genius. I hate you

Did you get lucky, take a guess, or see the logo link… then post?
2 Patrick Altoft 22/06/2008 at 7:00 pm: I saw the logo and then wrote the post.
3 Martín 22/06/2008 at 8:58 pm: Very clever!
I hate you too
4 charles 22/06/2008 at 10:15 pm: lucky for you. you hit the mark.
5 The Masked Millionaire 22/06/2008 at 11:25 pm: I should have linked to your site. At least I could have picked up the scraps.

Good going.
6 Lea de Groot 23/06/2008 at 1:44 am: Ah, I saw the article yesterday and wondered what it was bait for (because it was obviously bait for something! :))
All is now clear.

Interesting that you can still rank for something so off topic…
7 Wallace 23/06/2008 at 7:19 am: surprise! i had 7 visitors from this post.
8 Matt Sawyer 23/06/2008 at 9:20 am: >>You are a genius. I hate you

I’ll second that. While most of us are enjoying a lie-in you’re writing posts that generate 15,000+ visitors in 24 hours!

Out of interest, did many of those visitors convert into enquiries?
9 LG 23/06/2008 at 1:19 pm: hehe
10 siddiq 23/06/2008 at 11:20 pm: in your home page you say you about 100000(one hundred thousand) visit a month its mean you should get about 3333 visit a day but in this post picture the Top Traffic Sources and Pie Chart indicats that you only get about 200 visit a day so what is the truth?
11 Patrick Altoft 24/06/2008 at 9:03 am: The truth is that the text on the homepage was written a few months back and since the site is about to get a redesign I haven’t bothered to update the numbers.

Because of social media traffic coming in bursts its quite hard to put down a real monthly figure.

Also the pie chart just shows data for one day, some days I get 20,000 visitors from a social site somewhere.
12 Muhibbuddin 24/06/2008 at 9:07 pm: I hate you, you’ve cheating all of us.
13 Sachin 25/06/2008 at 5:35 am: congratulations you are a hit now and I came here from mixx
14 scriptinstaller.org 25/06/2008 at 6:29 pm: hello
its http://www.scriptinstaller.org admin,
i’m really happy for you for this gooogle traffic hurricane,
wish you more success,
btw , i have no seo skills and never hired a seo guru to review my website- i might do in few weeks.
best regards
15 Gregor Spowart 28/06/2008 at 12:12 pm: Brilliant. I love reading website stuff like this and it’s great to read about it when you have success.

I read a post a few months back on an SEO blog where the author wrote about the upcoming Miss World contest. It was bizarrely off -topic but earned the author a stack of traffic.

It’ll be interesting to see how the follow-up traffic works out for this one.

Cheers,
Gregir
16 Sunil 28/06/2008 at 12:23 pm: that’s a weird way to generate organic traffic
but ii is quit interesting and surefire
17 Stefano 02/07/2008 at 7:22 pm: Wow… you are really a genius!!!
Stefano from Italy
18 nozero 07/07/2008 at 8:45 pm: Just wondering what haapened to duplicate content?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice

Solstices occur twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is most orientated toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun to reach its northernmost and southernmost extremes. The name is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstices, the Sun stands still in declination; that is, its apparent movement north or south comes to a standstill.
19 Berry 14/08/2008 at 5:48 am: What is the software/utility that you have used to generate the traffic stats? Is it a freeware? Can you give me more details on that?
20 Patrick Altoft 14/08/2008 at 8:44 am: Its just Google Analytics.