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Nice way to grab SEO focus off of the dilemma and play it to your... well... um... not play it to your disadvantage.

karjaluoto 18y ago
That's what we were thinking. Sort of a: "The damage is already done--why not have some fun with it?" I'm not sure about exact numbers yet (Analytics reporting typically isn't that accurate until the next day), but it's been visited a great deal today. Sort of nice to have some positive spin out of this. :-)
- sam_in_nyc 18y ago
  Plus, sometimes it's just good to vent! I think I saw you on an elevator pitch? Was it MakeFive? How much traffic do you get from that?
  - karjaluoto 18y ago
    We did receive some traffic from it, but not quite as much as we were led to believe we might see as a result of TechCrunch featuring us. (That being said, it's certainly nice of them to have covered us!) Truth is,the biggest referrer that we see continues to be StumbleUpon. Those guys send us lots of traffic. We love them and want to bear their children; but, given the physical improbability of that, we'd probably just buy them lots of beer.
    - sam_in_nyc 18y ago
      Very interesting... I always thought that Techcrunch would bring a ton of traffic, but I guess it's moreso their blog than their elevator pitch page. It was a nice pitch, nonetheless. StumbleUpon, eh? Is this just organic traffic or have you done something to instigate it? And keep an open mind about having children with a website... some day it'll be possible.
      - karjaluoto 18y ago
        Actually, TechCrunch did feature it on their main page as well. It did bring traffic, but not so much that our servers were choking, as we had thought might happen. Thanks for the kind words about the pitch--it's hard trying to nail that kind of thing down. :-) We have stumbled a couple of our pages on our own and that has done a little, but we got a little carried away, and that seemed to reduce the significance of our stumbles for it. Now it's mostly users stumbling that has brought traffic. The weird part is that it's often just one page that brings a lot of people in. The downside with StumbleUpon is that it brings traffic, but little of it builds the userbase. It's a spike and that's generally it. Nevertheless, it does get the brand out there, which is helpful. And as for website children… we’ll just wait and see what comes of that. ;-)

That's what we were thinking. Sort of a: "The damage is already done--why not have some fun with it?" I'm not sure about exact numbers yet (Analytics reporting typically isn't that accurate until the next day), but it's been visited a great deal today. Sort of nice to have some positive spin out of this. :-)

sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Plus, sometimes it's just good to vent! I think I saw you on an elevator pitch? Was it MakeFive? How much traffic do you get from that?
- karjaluoto 18y ago
  We did receive some traffic from it, but not quite as much as we were led to believe we might see as a result of TechCrunch featuring us. (That being said, it's certainly nice of them to have covered us!) Truth is,the biggest referrer that we see continues to be StumbleUpon. Those guys send us lots of traffic. We love them and want to bear their children; but, given the physical improbability of that, we'd probably just buy them lots of beer.
  - sam_in_nyc 18y ago
    Very interesting... I always thought that Techcrunch would bring a ton of traffic, but I guess it's moreso their blog than their elevator pitch page. It was a nice pitch, nonetheless. StumbleUpon, eh? Is this just organic traffic or have you done something to instigate it? And keep an open mind about having children with a website... some day it'll be possible.
    - karjaluoto 18y ago
      Actually, TechCrunch did feature it on their main page as well. It did bring traffic, but not so much that our servers were choking, as we had thought might happen. Thanks for the kind words about the pitch--it's hard trying to nail that kind of thing down. :-) We have stumbled a couple of our pages on our own and that has done a little, but we got a little carried away, and that seemed to reduce the significance of our stumbles for it. Now it's mostly users stumbling that has brought traffic. The weird part is that it's often just one page that brings a lot of people in. The downside with StumbleUpon is that it brings traffic, but little of it builds the userbase. It's a spike and that's generally it. Nevertheless, it does get the brand out there, which is helpful. And as for website children… we’ll just wait and see what comes of that. ;-)