I have a little counter on my Firefox status bar which pulls my AdSense statistics every 20 minutes or so. On Monday while surfing, I noticed that the visit count for the day had hit about 6x the normal rate; so I did some detective work to figure out what was happening.

I pulled up the Technorati search of FiD and only saw two new links. The more interesting of the two was the Blog of Note link which is the “Blog of the Day” blog from the Blogger team! Being Blogger’s blog of the day was unexpected because I had not been marketing FiD recently and I have no idea how they heard of my blog. Nevertheless, being linked was very cool!

The problem with being linked is that you attract a lot of spammers. I already have captcha and login enabled on my comments, but I still had a lot of people leave a short, useless comment and a link to the site they’re promoting. The traffic also wasn’t as much as I thought it would be, and nothing compared to if I were linked from a major news source. At least however, I could post up that screenshot on the right.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: blogger, fid, marketing