What Drove The Hits To A Google Post

... think instead about how to get a few key people to read what you are blogging - that's what will really bring the traffic. -- Robert Sc*ble

There's been awe-inspiring traffic results from the recent 10 Things You Might Not Know About Google posting (which was in fact written by Philipp Lenssen, as part of a blog swap). For edification, here's some numbers:

Total page views: 97971
Total unique IP addresses: 86827

Number one source: digg.com: 38822 unique IP address visitors (~ 45%)

Bloglines subscribers (main feed): up from 222 to 236

Technorati rank: From about 120 sites linking to 180 sites linking, raising the blog rank from around 15,000 to around 9,000 (!). Maybe I should promote myself to C-lister nowadays, rather than Z-lister.

And lots and lots of blog-spam.

There feels like there's yet another lesson in here (besides the now-tedious fact that I'm wasting my time on unedited-voice essays and censorware/DMCA net activism - contrary to blog evangelism, the little guy does not get heard) . Launch a Google-oriented site? I keep going back and forth on the "business case". Maybe.

Top site referers by unique IP address after the jump below:

Seth Finkelstein's Infothought blog (Wikipedia, Google, censorware, and an inside view of net-politics) - Syndicate site (subscribe, RSS)