While checking the Wordpress Dashboard yesterday I noticed a ping back from Yahoo! Following the URL of where it came from, I noticed it was a hyperlink of my blog entry in My Web Yahoo! - “100 Keyboard shortcuts (Windows)“. I was kinda surprise this entry actually max out itself comparing to the rest of the entires I’ve wrote since converted to Tech Blog last December.

Content’s Origin

If you’ve clicked and see what’s with 100 Keyboard shortcuts, how did you find it? I think it’s averagely ok, a reference maybe. It’s from a forward mail I received from one of my colleague. Thought it could be useful so decided to blog-it-out.

The Drama

I’ve submitted in Digg.com. Surprisingly it maxed out with 1800+ digs; becoming one of the Top 10 in all Topics. Then the entry went into stumbleupon.com, also a Hot Now in del.icio.us. This wave quickly sent me 22k unique visitors, 3k in Feedburner. The combination waves from digg + stumbledupon + del.icio.us sent my Alexa to ranking 7K but soon falls ugly when the wave fades.

A single content to messed up my statistics and create such dramatically ups and downs; quite unbelievable. If you think this entry is to show-off, you are probably wrong. I’ve seen (and still seeing) bloggers writing entries in hoping one of them hit big and go high-boom; take my advise – it’s not worth it, especially on digg.com. You may succeed the first wave and attracts millions but visitors will soon leave because they are brought in for only one purpose - the particular entry. I guess the only formula to good website traffic is - constantly writing quality contents.