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After starting this website as a real blog just a couple of weeks ago, any number of visitors has been extremely welcome. I was very happy to have about 30 unique hits a day with hope that, over time, others will find this site useful. Recently, however, I posted a link to a color theme for visual studio on dotnetkicks. That post made it to the front page and eventually generated way more traffic than I ever imagined that it would...
February 13. 2008 12:45
Damn You! I was going to write the same type of article last week!
Jon von Gillern
February 13. 2008 13:00
Dotnetkicks brings about 33% of the traffic on our blog. Google brings in 50%. It's new and I would not call it popular, as we only get about 120 visitors per day. However, when we get included in the DNK RSS feed, our traffic quadruples! I too was very surprised by DNK's visitor count!
Jason Kealey
February 13. 2008 15:16
I see the exact same thing here. I've had a site up for my .NET syntax highlighter since November of last year. This week (on Sunday) I started a blog and wrote a couple of articles. Overall my traffic is abysmal, but the two times I made DNK front page it shot up. I had ~2K visits for the highlighter and ~500 for an article on SQL Server security. Which I guess is still abysmal, but better than average for me DNK is hugely helpful for the .NET community IMHO.
Gustavo Duarte
February 13. 2008 15:27
@Gustavo: I completely agree about DNK - It would be hard to keep as up to date on the latest .NET info with out it.
Ryan Lanciaux
February 13. 2008 15:51
I love the irony of an article discussing the DNK effect promoted through DNK . It would also be interesting to understand the traffic effects of higher or lower Kicks when on the front page. I bet 10 Kicks vs. 27 Kicks drives less hits.
Ian Suttle
February 13. 2008 18:38
Yea, I would assume you're probably right. I was hoping that someone that has a high kick count page might be able to give some insight into this...
February 14. 2008 04:33
DotNetKicks is great but I'm afraid it's going to hit the wall digg did some time ago. I wrote a sort of response to your article in my blog devblog.ailon.org/.../...Enjoy-While-it-Lasts.aspx
Alan
February 22. 2008 02:13
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