Nucite Network

I mentioned in a previous post that due to foobar being a common placeholder name, there are a ton of daily emails sent to the address foo@bar.com.  The fact is, due to that same situation, there are also a number of inbound links to both bar.com/foo and foo.bar.com.  Most of these are coming in from forum posts where programmers are communicating concepts with one another.  I threw up a simple page that asked "What were you expecting to see here?" along with a Google AdSense search box at foo.bar.com.  I also redirected traffic from bar.com/foo to the same spot.  I really just wanted to see how much traffic it actually got... and where the traffic was coming from.  Turns out, not a big deal.  About 5 - 10 people a day were coming through to those 2 URLs.

The owner of Bar.com and I talked about the email situation and he told me the brief story of the foo, which has recently replaced the simple search page.  Because most programmer geeks would probably find it interesting (or at least mildly entertaining), we did a Digg and a Reddit for the new page.  The Digg got absolutely no traction, but the Reddit took off fast and landed a link on the home page there for about an hour.  And it was at the top of the Geek category there for just over a day.  There was a 24 hour time period there where that domain got about 5,000 unique visitors.  And since that day, we're now averaging about 50 visitors to that page.

I made this post just to communicate how much of an impact a simple post to these social bookmarking-type services can have.  Now if we could only do the same for the money making pages...