Comments on: Behold the Power of WendyKnits.Net!

By: John Chow Effect? Less than “The Power of WendyKnits.Net!” : Big Bucks Blogger

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:47:13 +0000

[...] How much did I pay for the link? Nothing. Was I grateful for the link? Absolutely. The fuller story describing the traffic driving ability of a knitting blog is here: Behold the Power of WendyKnits.Net! [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:10:10 +0000

As to the source of your clicks – I found you when I was setting up my Google home pages. You came up when I asked for knitting links.

By: lucia

lucia — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:29:26 +0000

It’s difficult to use the data to estimate how many Wendy gets. She posts regularly, but not every day. Also, people get feeds, so she might get a big rush as soon as she posts. I’m just guessing 10% clicking on that link– after all, it could be higher or lower. (But I don’t click on every link in a blog, so I figure 10%. Who really know!)

I’m still getting loads of hits. There were people up at dawn filling my sitemeter counter with “wendyknits.net” links.I’ll be adding the weekly plot tomorrow so we can see the effect the first full day after she linked.

By: Toby

Toby — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:23:22 +0000

If 10% clicked it would mean they get around 38,000 daily visitors?

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:01:56 +0000

Hey, I told you that your Sockulators were popular! In addition your pictures of horrible knitware has replaced the ever popular but now defunct You Knit What blog. Keep up the great contributions to the knitting world!

By: Rete

Rete — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:41:02 +0000

Well, I’m at all three sites every day. I can’t remember how I originally found your site, but I’ve been a regular for about a year, I think. Love the haikus! You inspired me to write a birthday haiku for my hubby on my blog… it was … well, less than great, to say the least, but it was fun.

By: lucia

lucia — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:08:43 +0000

The ranking tools I’ve seen are pretty defective.

Alexa was bad enough. Then, they instituted a fix, and now it’s WORSE. To talk to the posties (who are also taking ads) I started yet another blog. Read how to juice your Alexa ranking here:

Get your traffic counted.

How do juice your Alexa rank? Scroll down, and see the alexa icon in my footer. Add that to your blog, and Alexa counts ALL your traffic instead of just the traffic from the small fraction of people who add the alexa bar. Since almost no one ads the Alexa icon, because a) it’s work b) it can slow your page load and c) if you don’t want to sell any ads, why would you care? But, if you add it, even a small amount of traffic looks like you get more than WendyKnits or The Yarn Harlot.