Burnt Orange Report
News, Politics, and Fun From Deep in the Heart of Texas
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February 18, 2004Traffic Overload!By Byron LaMastersWell, not quite. Fortunately, we have a good server here thanks to Dreamhost, which gives us a good deal of bandwith for $10 / month, but wow! The 25,000+ unique visits (55,000 + hits) we received today was more than the approximately 15,000 we received the entire month of January. Our traffic has been increasing from about 400-500 unique visits per day (average over a week) to around 600-700 (ave. / day over a week) over the past week or so as I've come out of my mini-rut from posting, but today was just phenomenal. Obviously, Atrios is the one I owe the most thanks to, as his link surely generated the majority of today's hits in regard to my post on the rumors circulating about Governor Rick Perry. We'll see if something breaks in the mainstream media about that story. There's so many rumors about it, I'd be very surprised if nothing eventually hits the mainstream media, but you never know. I've also been reworking the right sidebar and blogroll. I've added a few features, notably a good deal more of blogs, many of which I should have linked to a long time ago, and many of which I've just started reading more recently. I've also added links to a number of polsters which I find valuable in following the presidential and other races. I've also added links to the donation page to a lot of Democratic candidates (notably Texas congressional candidates) which I strongly support, and I would urge a donation to them (or you can always send a tip here through PayPal). On the money note, if our hits / visits continue to increase (obviously I'm not expecting to get anywhere near as many hits / visits as today on a regular basis at all), I'm considering adding BlogAds as we've all seen the effect that they had for Ben Chandler and others. I know that one Texas Congressional candidate, Morris Meyer is running BlogAds, and I'd encourage others to as well. Anyway, I've saved the Site Meter stats pages for today. If you'd like to see them, click below... 
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hehe and I'm still not a "TX Lefty Blog" ? :) I've only had BOR linked, since, what, July? thanks... Byron-I heard from a very credible source that News 8 Austin has a package ready to break the story and were planning to run it last week. It is being held for some reason I am not sure of. Posted by: Blue at February 19, 2004 01:06 AMJeff, I added you to the main page. Sorry it's taken so long... I try my best :-) I'll add you to the date, category and monthly pages when I rebuild those (they just take forever to rebuild all of them). -Byron Posted by: Byron L at February 19, 2004 01:35 AMHey, I almost had the same experience yesterday. Boss above boss. The amount of hits you got was infinitely more than the hits my website got, but still. Something was up yesterday, cause my website crashed several times because of the heavy traffic. You know what caused the sudden surge. I have no idea why people all of a sudden clicked my site. It's a great feeling though. I feel all the work I put in it is paying off and my message is being heard. If you got advice how to increase traffic and donations, please tell. Posted by: Ricky Vandal at February 19, 2004 08:51 AMHmmmm....is it possible that this whole thing about Rick Perry might be a hoax by some well-intended website with a name which is a partial tae-off of the school colors of a local major univeristy so as to increase traffic? Posted by: Tug at February 19, 2004 10:01 AMI didn't expect to get anywhere near this amount of traffic. In fact, when I first mentioned the rumors, it didn't get much play. I didn't tip off Atrios or anyone else to request a link. Whether these rumors will go public is anyone's guess. Perry will obviously do whatever he can to ensure that they don't, but I would not publish something I know is a hoax for the purpose of increasing traffic. That would be dishonest and inappropriate... so, no... Posted by: Byron L at February 19, 2004 10:50 AMI think it was me. I found your site on a feedster.com search. I tipped off counterspin.blogspot.com (look for Gryn in the comments, he was asking for more info) who then added a link to post regarding perry on his front page. I then posted a link on Atrios comments. Once Atrios picked it up it took off like gang-busters. I'm available for hire in case anyone wants to drive up traffic. Posted by: Gryn at February 19, 2004 01:07 PMHeh. Thanks Gryn. I appreciate it. I'm a poor student, hence the idea of BlogAds comes to mind, but if they work out for us here, remind me to leave you a tip... Posted by: Byron L at February 19, 2004 02:13 PMGood site here, i come every time i log on. Regarding Perry, the mainstream media is not going to report this without some facts to back it up or they take a black eye. Posted by: Tek_XX at February 19, 2004 03:24 PMKeep up the good work! Posted by: GFW at February 19, 2004 04:20 PMPost a comment
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