Written on June 24th, 2006 at 05:06 pm by Darren Rowse
Thankful Blogging Catches On
It looks like the idea of Giving Thanks for traffic is going a little viral - ok it’s not a full blown virus but it’s nice to see others doing it too. Thanks to Spinopsys, Trevor, Christian and the Retrospector for passing on the thanks.
Anyone else feeling thankful - share the love, post a list and let me know about it in comments below.
Update: here’s a couple more at Cata Vino and Brilliant Days.
Update II: here’s some more who have joined in the thankful frenzy - Techno Sailor, Melissa Wiley, Frankaar, Proper Course, Designers who blog, Empirical Empire, lil duck duck, Stories of Pregnancy & Birth over 44y and Through Ball.
UPdate - thanks to everyone who participated - I’m closing this little project off now. Thanks
17 Responses to “Thankful Blogging Catches On”
razib
June 24th, 2006 9:29 pm
Darren I thanked you and Boing Boing for driving a lot of hits to my new blog IndianRaj. Today is the 5th day of this new blog and yesterday it got a link from you and Boing Boing and I had more than 400 hits yesterday.
http://www.indianraj.com/2006/06/thanks_a_lot_boing_boing_and_p.html
(Thanks a lot Boing Boing and ProBlogger)
Shane
June 24th, 2006 11:42 pm
So I ask myself how could IndianRaj send you trafiice over the last six months when the blog has been live for 5 day. Hey its your blog, you can do what you want. I am just really curious.
Melissa Wiley
June 25th, 2006 1:19 am
Darren, thanks for this excellent idea. I posted a thanks-for-the-traffic post at http://melissawiley.typepad.com/bonnyglen/2006/06/giving_thanks.html.
jon
June 25th, 2006 1:21 am
how about we do one where we post all the sites that dont give us traffic LOL
Leon
June 25th, 2006 2:48 am
Thanks a lot Problogger for helping to driving traffic to my blog. A few hits, but I get more hits from you than most blog directories!
Matthew Bennett
June 25th, 2006 3:44 am
I tried this last month and thought it would be a good idea to do a bit of a fuller stats post. Here it is:
http://www.thebigchorizo.com/spain-on-the-internet/the-big-chorizo-top-10s-may-2006
I am going to repeat it every month because everybody loves reading about themselves and the others they participate with and it helps me to keep track of what’s going on a bit.
RobertS (sd2001)
June 25th, 2006 2:41 pm
Well, I haven’t sent any traffic your way (yet) and you haven’t sent me any (not expected, really) but I do want to thank you for the useful content. I’ve learned quite a lot from this blog for the last few weeks. I have what could be called a pretty niche-y blog and so it’s been interesting, to say the least, at trying to get it optimized. Your advice has been golden.
Original Idea?
June 25th, 2006 3:58 pm
Darren did you come up with the idea of thankful linking yourself? I follow a blog that’s been doing this for months. I knew she would start something, it’s nice.
Darren Rowse
June 25th, 2006 4:08 pm
Hi Original Idea - I’m sure it’s been done before, there’s nothing particularly new about either saying thanks or linking I guess. I wouldn’t claim it as original but I also can’t think of anyone who inspired me to do it.
Tillerman
June 25th, 2006 11:19 pm
Great idea Darren. I wrote a thanks-for-the-traffic post at http://propercourse.blogspot.com/2006/06/prayer-of-thanks.html
Rodrigo Stulzer
June 26th, 2006 12:29 am
Hi Darren!
Congratulations for the Australia soccer team classification at the world cup! Now is time to eat some pizzas :-)
Here’s is my thanks post to the sources that gives traffic to me:
http://stulzer.net/blog/2006/06/25/sources-of-traffic-to-stulzernet/
cat
June 26th, 2006 3:39 pm
Darren,
A bit tricky as DWB is in a different niche than ProBlogger, but as I was reviewing my other fav blog, Successful Blog, it worked rather well.
Here’s the link - http://www.designers-who-blog.com/index.php/archive/successful-blog/
“The second blog-of-my-life is ProBlogger, by Darren Rowse. Darren sends us off with homework (thanks!) which resulted in my Team Blogging Goals.”
cat
Shirazi
June 26th, 2006 9:06 pm
I can see the thankful frenzy getting into blogging like meme thing once used to be. Thanks for starting this.
Lisa
June 27th, 2006 7:02 am
What an excellent idea! Here is mine…. thanks for the traffic, by the way, it is always appreciated ;).
http://lilduckduck.com/archive/97
Thanks for the traffic….-- Lil Duck Duck
June 27th, 2006 7:06 am
[...] It’s catching - share the love!! [...]
Catherine
June 27th, 2006 8:20 am
You’ve inspired me to do a thankful post on my blog too.
http://pregnancyover44y.blogspot.com/2006/06/thankful-post_26.html
Josh
June 27th, 2006 1:05 pm
I gave thanks at http://www.throughball.com/2006/06/27/giving-thankslight-posting/.
And thank you, Darren, for the idea.
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