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1. Joe

   August 4th, 2008 at 8:31 am

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   Even I’ve never heard of Crucial Headache, and I don’t subscribe to Banned T-Shirts… but good for all of you who got mentioned! ‘advances in loud slogans’..?

   P.S. Nice test ad space.

2. henryv

   August 4th, 2008 at 10:43 am

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   I thought it seemed odd that dozens of people were suddenly googling for Thunderfrogs.
   Awesome! Hi five!

3. Andy

   August 4th, 2008 at 11:47 am

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   @Joe I can only presume that they were going for a diverse selection, after putting me and fat seagull, who both cover new releases, they must have wanted to cover other niches, like music tees and the much neglected tee & horse racing niche. I don’t really need to leave the test up, it was just so that the advertiser could see where their new spot would go, but I think its kinda funny so I’m just leaving it.

   @henryv when I asked my friends how much traffic a mention in a major national newspaper would get they all thought it would be thosands, I think it may have got me about a hundred extra visitors over the past two days, but its hard to tell.

4. henryv

   August 4th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

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   Yeah, I’d put it at about an extra hundred and fifty unique hits over the weekend. It’s easier to tell with my smaller visitor base.
   I could be wrong, but I think the idea was that they are UK based blogs, with the exception of Rumplo - hence no Tcritic etc.

5. Karl Long

   August 4th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

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   Congrats Andy and all the other guys mentioned, this is very cool. I’m not sure Tcritic is so well known in the UK, only 7% of my traffic originates from the there.

   My experience with mainstream media mentions is that I get very little traffic, I’ve been in the New York Times recommended blog list for a year, and had a big write up in San Francisco magazine in July but got very little traffic from it. Get a link from BoingBoing, Gizmodo or Uncrate is much more impactful Maybe people that read mainstream media online are not clicking out to other sites more, maybe they are less curious than the people reading cutting edge blogs?

6. Karl Long

   August 4th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

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   Oh, and an interesting article on how newspapers are no longer the social currency they used to be http://www.slate.com/id/2196485/

7. Andy

   August 5th, 2008 at 1:25 am

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   The thing about getting in a newspaper is that I can tell my friends and they’re really impressed, my cousin even told me I should frame my first ever press clipping, so I think it helps the people I know to understand what it is I do, but I knew it wasn’t going to lead to a rush of visitors. It might have had more impact if it was available online, I think the chances of someone reading a supplement in a print publication are pretty unlikely to be doing so whilst surfing the web, or reading that page with the intent of checking out everything listed.

8. Lindsay

   August 5th, 2008 at 3:04 am

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   Congrats! That is a nice mention.

9. Ban Shirts

   August 5th, 2008 at 4:08 am

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   Great news and find! I was wondering what the spike in traffic was from. Can you send me a scan of the full t-shirt part? Also, I appreciate the link to banshirts above but it is incorrect.

   Matt

10. Mark

    August 12th, 2008 at 4:50 pm

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    Yeah, i got a mention aswell, but actually the traffic spike wasn’t that big, got around 400-500 extra visits on both the Saturday and Sunday, mind you, it’s better than nothing and spreads the word

11. Andy

    August 12th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

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    That’s more than I got out of it Mark! I guess that if even 5% of the people that visited because of it ended up being regular readers then I’d be a happy man.

12. Mark

    August 12th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

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    Yeah definitely - I saw my feed subsribers go up slightly, it’s all encouraging really. Free publicity - can’t complain