Recently, there have been a few posts out there that describe individual bloggers' experiences when their posts or blogs get linked to from either AAA-list blogs or from high-traffic social link bumpers and meme-trackers. Here is a summary:
- April 14th 2004, A Whole Lotta Nothing (BoingBoing)
- Feb 15th 2005, Michael Buffington (BoingBoing, Slashdot)
- Oct 19th 2005, Inside Analytics (BoingBoing)
- Jan 12th 2006, Kottke (Digg, Slashdot)
- Mar 26th 2006, Keywords (BoingBoing)
- May 7th 2006, Fractals of Change (Reddit)
- June 5th 2006, Million Dollar Leverage (Reddit, Digg, Delicious)
- July 2nd 2006, Evolving Trends (Digg)
- July 16th 2006 Vital Security (Digg, Slashdot, BoingBoing)
It is interesting to note how Reddit figures in all of this. Million Dollar Page, which conducted an experiment (all be it of the ad hoc genre that defines research in the blogosphere), suggests that Reddit is a real powerhouse in the bumper space.
All of these posts present some sort of data graphic. One of the nicest comes from Kottke's contribution which contains this comparison of Digg and Slashdot.
An open question in the traffic graphing community: when will SiteMeter (one of the most widely used traffic stats services) produce graphs that can actually be read? The post by Fractals of Change has an example of this.
Here are some earlier comments I made on this topic.
Interesting thoughts on the impact of A-list bloggers on unknowns ... I did an admittedly ad hoc experiment around trying to see how an unknown blog could drive traffic and posted my thoughts here: http://cbdr.blogspot.com/2006/05/flash-blog-experiment-with-boston.html
Posted by: rob | July 24, 2006 at 03:18 PM
Interesting thoughts on the impact of A-list bloggers on unknowns ... I did an admittedly ad hoc experiment around trying to see how an unknown blog could drive traffic and posted my thoughts here: http://cbdr.blogspot.com/2006/05/flash-blog-experiment-with-boston.html
Posted by: rob | July 24, 2006 at 03:18 PM