Last week I talked about the new book Twitter Power by Joel Comm and why I use Twitter.
Today I am going to tell you how the power of Twitter has worked for me. Wednesday I posted an article about the top domain sales of 2008 not developed. Well, it went viral!
What does Viral mean?
According to Wikipedia viral is the concept of something, other than a biological virus, being viral came into vogue just after the Internet became widely popular in the mid-to-late 1990s. An object, even a non-material object, is considered to be viral when it has the ability to spread copies of itself.
After posting my article Wednesday a few of my followers on Twitter liked the article enough to retweet the message, sending a link copy to their followers. This was the beginning of the viral process. Where viral really kicks in is when those followers now retweet the message and so forth. The magic happened when Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google, got a look at my article. Matt must have found the article interesting enough that he sent the link out to his 15,000+ followers.
After Matt sent the message I received a very nice spike in traffic to my website. On average this site receives 600 visitors a day. On any given day the range is 500-700, yesterday was 1149. Not only did I see a spike in traffic but a small boost in the number of people following me.
Do you believe me now that Twitter works?
That’s absolutely amazing, I regret not using Twitter earlier.
Hi Patrick
I’ve experienced the same effect on Twitter. What I would say to any budding bloggers though is this: Twitter can have a significant effect on traffic, but it is transitory and you’re likely only to gain a few readers in the long term from this type of spike. The only way to get long term readers to your site is via search, and the only way to do that is to keep writing great content.
Good job Patrick,
The SEO world for which Matt Cutts is one of the most popular actors is today probably the community having the most potential domain buyers.