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The Oprah tsunami hits my blog

February 17th, 2006 @ 4:13 am by Rich | Share This | 4 comments
Filed under: Blogging, Links, Random Miscellany

Looked at my traffic logs a couple days ago...

Who died and left me all their traffic? It’s not like I blogged on Britney Spears or Anna Kournikova or anything lately. Did I?

Oh … wait … It’s gotta be Berry.

Since I blogged about Justin Berry (the former "camwhore," now believer, now States' witness, now media sensation) a while ago (here and here), I already had pretty good search rankings for my post, and it's been a steady, popular page. But yesterday our local Chicagoland media-mogul diva Oprah Winfrey blew the roof off my blog just by inviting two guests on her show, Justin Berry and Kurt Eichenwald—the reporter who outted him, saved him, and now “handles” him.

Look at the graphic at the right. This insane Mt. Everest of traffic spikes is entirely due to increased visitor traffic via Google from searchers looking



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