InstaPower
I’ve recently been InstaLinked, and I certainly appreciate it. It means that the big boys are paying attention to my blog. But the InstaTraffic was unremarkable… sure, TBOTCOTW had its best day ever yesterday, but I only got about one hundred InstaHits. So, as some have predicted, the magnitude of InstaPower has decreased as the sheer number of blogs have overwhelmed the available readers.
But I may have gotten few hits because Glenn’s post excerpted the best part of my argument, and no further reading was really necesesary. Glenn has commented in the past on the ironic ability of a short, mysterious post to drive hits. Also, my link was quickly pushed from the top of the page where it was more likely to be read.
On the other hand, today Glenn linked to a list of the top ten political bloggers. That list linked to Up Yours (with text that stressed the sexual nature of Dawn’s blog), which had a prominent post about my poll for the sexiest female blogger. Suddenly every hit I get is referred from Up Yours. Google had been about fifty hits ahead of Dawn for the month this morning, but Dawn is now up by over thirty. So the power of InstaPundit is still clear.
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