My friend Chris prompted me, via his recent blog post regarding the phenomenon of "viral" success on the internet, to go check my website statistics tonight. I hardly ever do this, and it was good that Chris convinced me to, because getting the pants scared off you is great for the circulation.
I average about 10 hits a day, generally. Before I went on blog hiatus a few months back, I got more, but not much more.
Now...remember that silly post about R0bert Pattins0n's hair? *points downward*
That got 853 hits today.
This is in comparison to 63 hits yesterday, and given the post is internet-old (i.e. it was published last Wednesday), you know something freaky just happened.
It turns out a huge majority of the visitors got here via a Google image search for R0bert Pattins0n, so the abrupt success of OxyJen is likely due to my post getting picked up by a web crawler.
Thank my frickin' stars. Who wants to be famous for making fun of someone's hair?
9 comments:
15 minutes, baby... that clock is ticking...
Blogless Troll noticed this same effect with Hayden Christensen. I know. I, too, was unaware that Hayden Christensen starred in two movies that I had seen perhaps thousands of times thanks to my children. I had no idea who he was.
I used this to my advantage a few months ago. Somehow, I doubt I got many repeat visitors from that experience.
And it might be worth noting that although "hayden christensen porn" was my #1 search string (dunno how that hit my site), "hayden christensen hair" was in the top 10.
Never underestimate the power of celebrity hair.
verification word: frops
I don't know why, but it seems strangely appropriate.
Chris: Less than 5 seconds, according to StatCounter. Warhol drastically overestimated that time frame.
PJD: "Robert Pattinson has disreputable-looking frops." You're right; that does seem appropriate.
My #1 search string is "Robert Pattinson greasy hair".
Which...really makes me wonder about people's Googling habits.
I get the most hits for people searching for Brendan Fraser Nipples or Anita Briem Nipples.
Too funny.
I've gotten the most hits for "big breasts" (it was about chickens and the tendency for chicken breasts to be huge these days, and probably totally disappointed those Googlers) and "sexy hooker shoes". You need to include those words in every tag line and you'll see your stats rise. Of course, you may not want those readers.
Mom in Scrubs: Well, Brendan Fraser's nipples are certainly worth looking for. Just think of all the lovely landscape you get to peruse while you're looking for them...
Junosmom:
...probably totally disappointed those Googlers.
Hee hee! A friend of mine once complained about the opposite effect, how you can Google for completely innocent things--like toe cages for your bicycle--and wind up getting a bunch of porn sites.
Of course, you may not want those readers.
I suspect you don't really get them. As I mentioned on Chris' site, out of the 1200+ hits that one post got the other day, maybe 5 people actually went and looked around my site a bit more. That's awesome, but it's hardly a tidal wave.
Does it really matter how you got famous? Now that they've found you, maybe they'll return.
Hey, one can hope, right?
Virginia Lady: One can hope, but I don't have much in this case. :-)
That is hilarious!
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