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A lot of people were asking me for information regarding how much traffic John Chow sent rssHugger.com when I ordered a blog review, so I have decided to make a public post about it. For those who do not know the background, the first review was quite negative (because my site charged money to join), but after I changed the site’s business model, John Chow made an updated post about the new features and the site received a lot more publicity and many blogs did their own reviews about it.
My blogs launch was featured on Mashable.com (9th largest blog in the world), as well as KillerStartups (4000 RSS readers), but even combining those two together did not equal the amount of traffic and viral marketing that I received from John Chow.
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As shown above, the press on John Chow sent a lot of visitors to the website, much more than a bigger blog reviewing the website. Although Mashable covered the launch for free, I would still consider a review on John Chow a worthy investment if you have a great product for bloggers, readers, or webmasters looking to make money online. The numbers here will gradually increase as I am still on page two of John Chow’s blog, but these numbers represent a close estimate to the full extent of a John Chow review.
My reviews:
http://www.johnchow.com/rsshugger-wants-to-share-a-little-love/
http://www.johnchow.com/rsshugger-giving-out-free-hugs/
Hey ya, Congratulation on your success.
Did you receive any traffic from my blog?
I also got a few spare traffic from commenting on John Chow posts, too. What an effect. He seems to be top 10 bloggers out there.
@Bin: Yup, looks like 13 visitors.
Wow, that is quite a launch. I found rsshugger from reading others talking about the subject (chow page loads too slowly).
Very nice. I’m actually thinking of ordering a review myself. How do you think compares to a banner ad? I would think that a review would receive more initial traffic but that it would die down to almost nothing in the next days. However an ad stays for the duration of the campaign and will send a more steady flow of traffic. Any ideas?
To be perfectly honest, I have no idea how a banner compares. A banner ad would be more stable, but I don’t know if the total amount would exceed a reviews viral potential. A banner ad also does not reach the 14,000+ subscribers. If you have a good product, get a review, if you are marketing any other site, you could try the banner. Let me know how it goes!
Best of luck man, i m new to this fild but ur have don a good job…. u will win , but dont forget to give me party, …lol bye
Nice traffic!
Nice stats! The only time I’ve ever gotten a spike that big is when StumbleUpon brought me 700 or so visitors on one of my first posts.
Awesome job being featured at a few A-List blogger’s websites and hopefully that’ll continue. rssHugger currently seems that it might do well and the more reviews it gets the more viral it becomes.
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No thats John Chow For You
So young yet so smart. Still so little traffic to my site.
What a launch! However, why don’t you show how the curve continues? Did it follow the growth even later on?