What happened?
May 5th, 2003 by gregr
This is going to sound like a strange question, but here goes. Did NewsGator get some press today, somewhere, without a direct link? Like in print, maybe? Today was a huge traffic day on http://www.newsgator.com, but referrers aren’t telling the whole story.
There were a very large number of google hits for the phrase “NewsGator” - we get a fair amount every day, but nothing like today…
So did anyone see anything I might have missed?
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May 5th, 2003 at 7:34 pm
If you google for articles indexed in the past few days, it might yield a clue [1]. Since the 3rd, a couple of InfoWorld articles were indexed plus a Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine article and LockerGnome, LarkWare, and O’Reilly.
Go to Faga Finder to finetune your search.
[1] http://www.google.com/search?as_q=NewsGator+-newsgator.com+daterange%3A2452760-2452762
[2] http://www.faganfinder.com/google.html
May 5th, 2003 at 8:10 pm
Well, it’s possible, but all of those articles came out at least a week ago, and most of them also contain direct links (so we see them in our referrer logs). Today’s traffic came in from google searches for “NewsGator”…what I’m wondering is, why the spike in that particular search today? (Not that I’m complaining :)
May 5th, 2003 at 8:55 pm
Aha, I think we have it. Myke M pointed out that Brian Livingston mentioned NewsGator in an InfoWorld article - go read it!
May 5th, 2003 at 8:58 pm
I think you are seeing monday-morning readership of Brian Livingston’s InfoWorld article. A lot of people don’t check up on tech news on the weekends, and that could be pushing your page views.
May 5th, 2003 at 10:44 pm
I think it my indeed be Brian Livingstone’s newsletter. He has been talking about RSS a few times, and today included some links to your product.
Regards,
Erwin.
May 12th, 2003 at 11:48 pm
Yeah, I showed it to Brian when he was visiting the other week… he wants to take over one of our newsletters. ;)
May 13th, 2003 at 9:07 am
Thanks Chris!