Anatomy of the Scoble Effect

So just because I have wondered what kind of effect a link from an “A list” blogger has, I am going to share what happened here.

In the 24 hours after Scoble linked to me on a Saturday afternoon, I received approximately 1020 more hits than my daily average. Here are the referral stats for that day,

google.com/reader/view 251
scobleizer.com/2007/02/24/google-read… 220
scobleizer.com 135
netvibes.com 15
google.com/ig?hl=en 14
google.com/ig 6
planet.northernvoice.ca/node?page=3 5
google.co.uk/reader/view 5
google.com/reader/view/user/040598310… 4
bloglines.com/myblogs_display?all=1 3
bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=207… 3

And here were the clicks out of my blog that day,

google.com/reader/public/atom/user/04… 41
scobleizer.com/2007/02/24/google-read… 15
claimid.com/christian 11
twitter.com/christianb73 8
twitter.com/christianb73/statuses/564… 8
scobleizer.com/2007/02/20/mike-arring… 8
feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommonCraft/~… 7
cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte… 5
flickr.com/search/?q=nv2007&m=tag… 5
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/624698… 4
feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Centernetwork… 4

I also made it into the wordpress.com top 100 blogs at number 83 for the day, and was the number 6 growing blog on wordpress.com, all from just one link from scoble on a Saturday.

It was fun but I don’t plan on ever being a blog superstar, I do it because I enjoy it and I like to be able to see how I have changed over the years. How I see things is shifting and I cant see that trend on a weekly basis but over the years it sure does show up.