Yesterday morning, I completed a new mini-site, Chess: basic principles. It’s a short, 1-page site with some principles for chess openings, intended for “advanced beginners”. As I usually do, I submitted it to several social bookmarking sites.
The results were amazing, much better than I ever got in the past. Digg mostly ignored it, and the Portuguese Digg clones (where the Portuguese version, Princípios básicos de Xadrez, was also submitted) are too small to make a difference. But several others…
Impressive, right? But it was also picked by Lifehacker (and I didn’t add it there):
Want to see the difference in my stats (those are for all my mini-sites, that’s why there was traffic before)?
Before you ask: no, this isn’t a magic recipe for AdSense, since users from those sites almost never click on ads; they’re a bit more technically inclined than “Joe User”, so they tend to use ad blockers, or at least ignore ads. It shows in the browser stats, too - more than 60% of those 7000 or so visitors use Firefox.
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I checked out your chess site, and believe it or not you had a google ad on there that interested me so I clicked it. For some reason it was an xbox 360 ad. Anywho just thought you would like to know that I found value in your new mini-site. This is not spam or bullshit. I really did visit it.