Major Link Love

January 05th, 2007

Wow - the last couple days have been full of surprises.

A few days ago, I wrote an article called, ‘‘. I didn’t think it was anything special; I was just rewriting something that was written in the comments of a previous post.

Well, much to my surprise, Search Engine Land picked it up (thanks Barry) as well as . WebProNews is of course scraped to high heaven, so I immediately got tons of backlinks as a result of that.

The post on SEL was seen by a number of prestigious bloggers, and soon the story was getting linked from ProBlogger.net and among a large number of other sites.

Here’s where the big surprises came in - the article started getting linked from sites in different languages such as Korean, and a German sites.

At it’s peak, the post made the Techmeme frontpage, which sent about 150 readers.

As a result of this post, my Technorati rank dropped greatly, sitting me at 98,277. From tracking my referrals, I suspect that I got between 200-300 new backlinks, and the number of RSS subscribers reported by FeedBurner has doubled. My Blog Juice jumped from 2.1 to 2.6.

Welcome to the new readers - I hope you are somewhat entertained and informed by my posts. Thanks for the link love everyone who linked to the article - I will be giving you tons more like it :P

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6 Comments so far

  1. Monty Loree @ January 5th, 2007

    Good work Caydel,

    That’s the way to do it…

    The benefits of good article writing :

    Best,

  2. Joost de Valk @ January 5th, 2007

    Hehe darn, I should have just trackbacked instead of commented :P

  3. AdsBay @ January 5th, 2007

    Great Work! I wish someone would add such a useful comment to my blog so I rewrite it and get a load of free traffic and link backs. Congratulations!

  4. matthew @ January 6th, 2007

    We would like to inform you that your blog has now been added to the Megite index. We kindly invite you to explore Megite’s latest version at http://www.megite.com and Megite Video at http://www.megite.com/video.

  5. Brian Vuyk @ January 6th, 2007

    Yes - I did notice some referral traffic from Megite. Just to get it right, is Megite something like Techmeme in that it grabs blogs and figures out what the important items are?

  6. Javier Marti @ January 7th, 2007

    Brian I have linked to free articles journal and mentioned your name in my latests blog article
    “What am I optimistic about? The new capitalist socialism!”
    Your comments welcome
    Thanks for the help through linkedln!
    Regards
    http://niquel757.blogspot.com

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