RSS Feeds: It Got Stumbled Again!
Have you ever written something that isn't within your areas of expertise and regretted writing it? Does an article keep coming back to haunt you? This has happened to me three times so far. Short of deleting the original article, there's absolutely nothing I can do about it.
When I wrote Downloading Pirated Anything Is NOT Illegal, I opened up a veritable can of worms. Steve of Ramblings from the Marginalized submitted it to Digg on March 20th, 2007. According to my stats at the time, it was viewed more than 11,000 times that day. It was at the top of the front page for hours.
On July 18th or 19th (depending on your time zone), someone visiting from StumbleUpon decided to stumble the article and it received another 4,000 page views before it slowed down. I wrote about it in my article, Yesterday – Another Banner Day for Untwisted Vortex!
Approximately 8 hours ago, someone visiting from StumbleUpon spotted it again and gave it a thumbs down. It might has well have been a thumbs up because it's been viewed more than 400 times today. I have no idea how many visitors it will generate before it slows down again.
I specifically excluded the article from my "Popular Posts" widget, along with quite a few others, because that's not the kind of image I want to project for my blog. I realize that some bloggers would just about kill for traffic like that, but it's not the kind of traffic I'm looking for. Perhaps I'm "looking a gift horse in the mouth". According to the latest statistics from Google Analytics, that article alone has generated more than 55,000 page views.
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Whoa! this much traffic just from a single article..
But I must agree with you that this should not be anywhere on the main page, easily accessible to be boo-booed.. I call that article being rightly worked upon and i agree with the concept that you showed.. But this kind of traffic. We certainly don't want it
Well, your article is still on Google's cache. And my comment is there too.
One of those 11000 persons came to my site and sent me an email about the comment I left on that article :/
Well, I would be proud myself, but that's just how I am. Congratulations RT, I think this is awesome. Have a great day and weekend. :)
I wouldn't be discourage by the "image". Plenty of people (with good reputations) have controversial rants and are better off for saying it.