About a month ago I gave my first attempt at linkbait. I've read continuously that people just love lists, and my site being a movie based site, it was only natural to make a top ten list of movies. So to make it interesting I made the following article: Top 10 most difficult to watch (but still insanely awesome) movies And then....nothing. For about 3 weeks I watched, I even committed the big no no and stumbled my own article. Nothing. Then for my day job, I was called away for 2 weeks. I returned on April 11th. I did absolutely nothing (and in fact didn't even look at the site for those two weeks). April 12th: Someone else stumbles the site, starting an avalanche of about 5000 hits. April 13th: the hits grow to 35000, and someone reddits the site April 14th: Another 20,000 hits April 15th: Things seem to have slowed down, only 2500 hits. April 16th (today): Suddenly, the article gets on the front page of IMDB. Back up to 30,000 hits and counting! All of this from a single article...on a site that is lucky to get 1000 hits on a normal day. I have to say, I'm hooked on social networking, and top ten lists now.
What type of server you got to endure all those social bookmarking traffics? I havent clicked your link yet though it could be link bait
Well...from the beginning I got a pretty decent server, even though I've been losing money on it every month. In fact this is the first month I'll pay it off out of earnings. I've been using media temple, though your right I certainly should check how my bandwidth is going.
Thanks for the inspiring story.That's a good article as well, another reason for the success. Top 10 lists are good, but always be looking for new innovative methods.