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January 20, 2006

once upon a time…

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1. A well known wri­ter has a web­site. Been online for a num­ber of years. Already has a repu­ta­tion for being tech-savvy and “wired”.
2. He starts a blog just over 2 weeks ago.
3. It inc­rea­ses his traf­fic. Just a tad.
4. Make of it what you will.

10 Responses to “once upon a time…”

1. Karim Bakhtiar says:

   January 20, 2006 at 6:19 PM

   Being fea­tu­red on the Type­pad home­page for two weeks results in a traf­fic spike? Well, that’s shocking.
2. Gripes says:

   January 20, 2006 at 6:50 PM

   But you didn’t just start blog­ging this month, so the rea­son your own traf­fic inc­rea­sed just a tad this January?
3. Andreas Duess says:

   January 20, 2006 at 7:07 PM

   Not only on the Type­pad web­site but, I believe, even the BBC had an article about Guy Kawasaki’s blog. It’s all over the net.
4. Douglas Livingstone says:

   January 20, 2006 at 10:07 PM

   > Being fea­tu­red on the Type­pad home­page for two
   > weeks results in a traf­fic spike? Well,
   > that’s shoc­king.
   Would he have been fea­tu­red on the Type­pad home­page for two weeks if he didn’t have a blog?
   Douglas
5. G.D. says:

   January 20, 2006 at 11:24 PM

   the traf­fic spike was due to the “free toas­ter with book purchase!” ban­ner. what? are you peo­ple blind?
   (ps– i’m highly enter­tai­ned by your doodles…you are one talen­ted creature…love this blog)
6. AGRADA says:

   January 21, 2006 at 12:00 AM

   Hugh Mac­leod is my hero, ” Final decision ”
7. Karim Bakhtiar says:

   January 21, 2006 at 9:01 PM

   Would Guy Kawa­saki have been fea­tu­red on the Type­pad home page if he or his work had not been well known? Obviously not.
   The traf­fic stats do not demons­trate that blog­ging is a more power­ful traf­fic gene­ra­tor than being asso­cia­ted with something well-known as the asso­cia­tion was a neces­sary con­di­tion for the free lis­ting that led to the traf­fic spike.
   The impli­ca­tion that famous peo­ple could leve­rage their exis­ting fame through blog­ging is hardly a revelation.
8. hugh macleod says:

   January 22, 2006 at 2:19 PM

   Karim, I’m get­ting the fee­ling that this is tur­ning into one of those “The only rea­son The Rolling Sto­nes got suc­cess­ful is because they sold millions of records and con­cert tic­kets” types of con­ver­sa­tion. Heh.
9. triticale says:

   January 23, 2006 at 12:50 AM

   Actually, the rea­son the Rolling Sto­nes became suc­ces­ful is that they tou­red as the war­mup act for the Trash­men and thus came to a lot of people’s attention.
10. frank. says:

    February 21, 2006 at 10:13 PM

    real story: guy kawasaki

    Have a book coming out? Super! We’ll see you on your book tour! Wait … Your blog has millions of visi­tors a day … Does a Bar­nes Noble actually hold a million people?