Major Digging
Wednesday, 20th September 2006 by Alex Turnbull
Hi! We're still here but we got seriously digged! Please bear with us and normal service will resume as soon as possible.
Update: Looks like the worst of the storm is over now - Digg is pretty big these days huh? We'll be back with your regularly scheduled programming tomorrow 🙂
P.S. The Topless Sunbather story is currently on the first page of the most popular stories on Digg this week!
Update 2: Sorry about this people, we're back (again) but still under incredibly heavy load from the Digg post. We're currently at 2119 Diggs and climbing all the time, and Oh. My. Goodness. The Alexa Stats are unbelievable.
Update 3: Server is doing fine just now, probably because the traffic from The Register has died down! As if you couldn't have guessed, their take on the story is currently their most popular story of the last 24 hours.
Hopefully we really are on the road to recovery now, thanks for bearing with us 😀
About the author
Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
Stupid diggers. 😉
I might have guessed that post would bring in some, er ‘attention’ huh?!
So how many extra pageviews did that generate?
Here it is; A bit of a sharp rise, for sure:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&compare_sites=&y=r&q=&size=medium&range=3m&url=www.googlesightseeing.com
lol! you’re not kidding!
we currently have no idea – the server was completely hammered, so I’m not sure how the logs will have performed :-/ The alexa stats sure are interesting though!
I’m really sorry about all this 😉 I thought it was already ‘old news’.
Romanov, apparently not – outside of the Netherlands anyway!
No worries on the digging, it’s bound to happen every now and again. Thanks for sending us the sight in the first place! 😀
Wow, it’s like CO2 levels in the atmosphere over the past few hundred years.
Tim, the craziest thing is when you compare the current top story this week on digg with the traffic being generated by our hit story:
Alexa comparison of techsupportalert.com VS googlesightseeing.com
And still climbing? It seems that the age old truism is indeed true. Sex sells.
Well since this site is generating so much interest, im gonna get some free advertising in:
I will do nude modelling, cheap. And when I say cheap, I mean, literally, just expenses. Actually, screw the expenses.
Here is my number: 555- HOT UK-NUDE!
(PS: buy apple)
😀
Ah! Finally found another major source of traffic! Looks like The Register‘s picked up the Topless Sunbather Story too 😀
I think you may be able to see who else is linking to you from here:
http://www.wholinks2me.com/index.php