Mar 26 2008

The Definition of Viral

Published by Don Ryan at 9:03 pm under Random Thoughts

No, I am not talking about a sickness but rather how something spreads on on the internet.  Allow me to elaborate.  As of last week, the highest number of visitors I had to my blog in any one day was 133.  Not bad but nothing to get excited about.  Then I put up this post of a little girl singing the Lord’s Prayer.  That post itself, as I write this, has been viewed 1,011 times (including once while I’ve typed this paragraph).  The vast majority of inbound links are from email servers which tells me that folks are copying the link and emailing it to their friends.  As a side note, my highest daily visits now was yesterday (GMT) at 463 views.  418 of those views came directly to the Lord’s Prayer post.  Right now (10:01 PM EDT) I have had 93 views with 87 coming directly to that post, mostly from email servers.

You can’t pay for advertising like that.