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.
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.You can get our blog posts delivered for free by email every day - simply add your email address to the box below or alternatively grab the RSS feed.
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You are a genius. I hate you
Did you get lucky, take a guess, or see the logo link… then post?
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I saw the logo and then wrote the post.
More comments from Patrick AltoftVery clever!
I hate you too
lucky for you. you hit the mark.
I should have linked to your site. At least I could have picked up the scraps.
Good going.
Ah, I saw the article yesterday and wondered what it was bait for (because it was obviously bait for something!
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All is now clear.
Interesting that you can still rank for something so off topic…
surprise! i had 7 visitors from this post.
>>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?
hehe
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?
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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.
More comments from Patrick AltoftI hate you, you’ve cheating all of us.
congratulations you are a hit now and I came here from mixx
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
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
that’s a weird way to generate organic traffic
but ii is quit interesting and surefire
Wow… you are really a genius!!!
Stefano from Italy
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.
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?
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Its just Google Analytics.
More comments from Patrick AltoftCongratulations, and thanks for posting about this so the rest of us can try it too.
I started doing something a bit similar over Christmas (got stumbled with a funny poem) and Valentines day, but I certainly never got the numbers you did!
Then again, I’m going slowly but surely, and some of the traffic ends up coming back and becoming loyal, so it’s all good.
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