{"id":2647,"date":"2007-11-03T19:49:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T14:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/hit-by-delicious-front-page-effect\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:29:03","slug":"hit-by-delicious-front-page-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/hit-by-delicious-front-page-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit by Del.icio.us Front Page Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DeliciousYesterday our popular article titled Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools<\/a> hit the del.icio.us front page<\/strong> hotlist and instantly a traffic spike boosted my Sitemeter statistics. However, getting on the del.icio.us front page is different than getting on del.icio.us\/popular<\/a>. I elaborate the Del.icio.us Front Page Effect<\/strong> that followed.<\/p>\n

Last time we hit the del.icio.us\/popular<\/a>, a stream of traffic followed from related services which index del.icio.us popular like popurls etc. which spreads the word to a larger audience and this is usually followed by a bigger the Digg effect and Stumbleupon effect.<\/p>\n

This time the article was featured on the top of the Hotlist <\/strong>which lists what’s hot right now on del.icio.us, then gradually moved down the page over the next few hours.<\/p>\n

\"Del.icio.us<\/p>\n

A sudden traffic spike followed (which I track by hourly statistics<\/a>) and the hourly traffic doubled for the next few hours.<\/p>\n

\"Delicious<\/p>\n

How much site traffic came in from del.icio.us over the next few hours? Around 1500 visitors<\/strong> dropped by. There was no significant jump in daily income, as there were lots of del.icio.us tools<\/a> to click around. There were a limited few backlinks that came in. Of course it was bookmarked and shared by a lot of users.<\/p>\n

There was no slowness of page loading or web server issues, and pages were delivered as speedy as ever, courtesy Dreamhost webhosting (which I highly recommend too). Of course I could have started wp-cache to further ease the server load, till the wp-cache bug<\/a> crashed the site, but it was not necessary.<\/p>\n

I am still affected by the 405 errors with wp-comments<\/a>, there were a lot of out clicks on
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\nbut there were no change in the usual number of comments. I wonder what is up.<\/p>\n

In Conclusion: <\/strong>Del.icio.us\/popular is tracked by many more web services and you have a greater chance that the buzz spreads to Digg and Stumbleupon. Del.icious Front Page hotlist is a great place to get exposure, but the traffic ripple is limited to those few hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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