Well, I had my best 3 day period ever this week. It's all thanks to UFC 68. I scored about 1500 visitors to
http://mma.gocurious.com the day of the event, 2100 the day after and another 1400 two days after. Traffic has calmed back down to normal levels today.
I saw the ramp up start earlier this time, starting a week or more in advance of the event and peak traffic was three times what it was last month. That is very promising and makes me conclude that traffic increase goes up exponentially as your rank in google searches gets better. This makes perfect sense if you think about it. Most people who do a search click on the first or second item, going much below that there will be less and less. By the time you get to 15 or so, you're probably not getting clicked. So as an example, if there are 100,000 potential visitors on "UFC 68 Results", I would guess that first place gets at least 30,000-50,000 second getting 15,000 and it drops of quickly once you get below 6th place.
So, we'll see if I can climb another spot or two and get more visitors for April 7th UFC event. I am still promoting my other sites, alternating between recipes, the two christmas sites and halloween. DMOZ still hasn't listed any of my sites (they sure take their time).
Later
