I don't know if being worried

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Someone, somewhere, linked my Budweiser gay commercial post (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/660099.html)... it's the only explanation, since today that post had more than 600 visits! Only that I don't know who, and this thing let me perplexed... someone on my flist knows what is happening? I lost some pieces to understand a puzzle?

ETA: Thanks to my anonymous friend, the mystery is resolved. I was linked today in an article by Seth Stevenson on Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2219871/

Well, thank you Seth, even if I don't know you, you send toward me a lot of people today!

Comments

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

I wish LJ had a set of traffic tools. [nod/sigh] You can use LJ Toys to count hits and look at IP addresses (I assume you're using that if you know how many hits you're getting) but there's no way I know of to see referring links. I'd love to be able to see that data; I have some stories on my other journal which get little flurries of his periodically, so I know they've been linked somewhere, I just can't find them. :/

My advice is to just take it as a compliment. Someone thought you posted something cool and linked it. :)

Angie

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I take that as a compliment, but that number of visits is something huge, only with the Amazon fail post I had the same result. With that and my normal visit, today I had more than 1000 visits... I would only like to know who to thank for that. BTW they are almost all from USA, since the IP are all aroung USA. Elisa

[bean-montag.livejournal.com]

So where is this "toys" feature? I'm not familiar with it....

Thanks!

eta: I'm sure all those hits will be good for your journal, Elisa! Free publicity.^^

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and this time it's even for a nice post ;-) Elisa

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

LJ Toys (http://ljtoys.org.uk//main.php) is a third-party utility. The free version will show you hits and IP addresses, and country of origin, but doesn't show referral URLs, which I'd really like to see. I think the paid version sees referrals, but I don't want it quite enough to justify paying just as much per year for that service as LJ charges for a paid account, though. [wry smile]

Anyway, if you're interested I recommend you try the free version for a while, then see if you like it enough, and want the perks enough, to want to upgrade.

Angie

[misslucyjane]

You were linked as a guest speaker at shared_wisdom earlier today--some of the traffic may have come from there.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Mmm, no, the entry pages is exactly the one above, shared_wisdom linked my front page. Usually my front page has the 30% of the traffic. It's all today that that post has the 70% to give you a comparison parameter... It was for sure linked somewhere and also from an high traffic point. Elisa

it's from slate

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.slate.com/id/2219871/

the traffic is probably coming from the above slate article about another ambiguously gay ad.

Re: it's from slate

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! Yes, it's probably that. Now I want to read the article. Elisa

[cassandra-gold.livejournal.com]

Wow, cool! A link in Slate, pretty awesome. :)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Sincerely I don't know what Slate is, but it has to be something "big" since I received a lot of visits thanks to that. Elisa