This is what happens when you provide yourself a plug on John Chow dot Com. I talked about the paradox of online contests, then I briefly mentioned the contest that I currently have running on this blog to win a USB TV tuner. Nine out of the next twenty visitors would come via John’s blog.
Here’s a screenshot from my Site Meter.
A few comments here and there and few links from JC in posts have seen me get over 1,100 referrals from JCDotCom in the past month! There is definitely a JC effect!
JohnChow.com is definitely a powerful traffic source. My review on the site had sent over 500 new visitors.
I did a review of his site and only got like 4 visits from JC…I thought it’d be more… 🙁
Don’t cry about 4K in visits!
This is something like the Digg effect only on a relatively smaller scale. Though the backlinks from JC due to the reviews have a lesser chance of bringing visitors, a direct link in the posts certainly will bring in a crowd..
I’d be glad to have 4K visitors from a review, because the are all targeted and probably will stay with your blog
I think he said “4” not “4k”.
I definitely receive a decent amount of traffic from JC just by leaving comments there. Now if I could just get that traffic to start linking, we’d be in business.
Max
“The John Chow Effect” is probably better than the Digg Effect, since they’ll probably come back to your site, and stay longer. Digg Traffic doesn’t seem to “stick” all that much…
It seems sort of illogical to me, but I keep seeing the effect on so many blogs. And while I keep shying away from the main source of JC’s appeal, I guess one of these days I might have to give in and let myself see his charm.
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