My website was featured by TechCrunch in first days of Jan 2012 and then the article appeared at many other blogs too. But link:[mydomain] query still shows nothing and I got only a few hits per day from google. site:[mydomain] shows about 20,000 pages indexed and growing, google webmaster tools show that google is indexing my website. Google traffic increased a bit (up to 20 users/day) on days when my website was featured at large blogs or by influential people in twitter, then fell down again to 5 hits per day. I was not in SEO business for some years and looking for advice - is there Google dance or something I should be waiting for? Or is it a sign that something is wrong with my content?
As you said your site may be featured in TechCrunch, but it's a temporary source to give you the traffic. But, this is also a chance for you to gain good PR. and i suggest you to keep updating your website with the original and quality content.
Well, I think you need to wait for some time. Traffic is not a matter of one day. Now when your service was mentioned at high PR websites, your PR will grow up too as well as traffic. Nevertheless, you can write a letter to google support asking your question
If your site was featured with a link to your site, the majority of the traction you will get in Google will be for whatever the keywords in the anchor text were in that link at TechCrunch. The only actionable data you'll probably see in analytics after one feature piece on a big site like that is an increase in visits for the keywords used in those backlinks. You might check to see where you rank in the SERPS for those keywords. Other than that, you might not see all that much action on the search engine side just with one feature.
The feature gives you a small, temporary burst of traffic. In order for Google to see you and rank you, you have to do backlinks to your pages.
LOL @ Google Dance. It's not like it use to be. I remember gaining some links then Google would update there index (ie. Google Dance) and boom... you'd move up. Now links seem to help at different stages. Like a time release. Sometime you get an initial push... then more after about a month or so. Then a little more after a few more months. This seems to go on for 6 months or so.
Just be patient, every link matters and eventually it'll help you. You can't expect to receive results within a short period of time.
The problem is there is no any meaningful anchor text. The article just contains the link and the anchor is my website name.I guess google should use whole article text too, not only the anchor itself. BTW the request "domainname" -site:domainname Code (markup): shows about 6k results now, so my website was featured not only at TechCrunch but at many other blogs and websites too. But there are no meaningful anchor texts too at those pages. Waiting for google update anyway, and working on more coverage.