CLUAS.com traffic surges after Michael Jackson dies
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Monday, June 29, 2009
There have been numerous media reports of surges in internet traffic once word was out that Michael Jackson had died. For example, the spike in traffic that hit Google was so out of the norm they thought they were being hit with an automated attack.
CLUAS too saw a surge in traffic as soon as word was out that The King of Pop had passed away. In our case this was due to our 2005 article on Michael Jackson's fall from grace ("Michael Jackson: demon or demonised? Or both?") that Aidan Curran authored. It alone was visited a whopping 1190 times last Friday (see graph, the spike you see is for the number of page views the article had on Friday). A huge increase when you consider, according to our web stats service, that in the year before Jacko passed away, this article was visited an average of 8.6 times a day.
Over the weekend the traffic kept flowing to the article, and by Sunday evening it had been visited a total of 1820 times over four days (see table below). This is just another example of how CLUAS.com's focus on optimising its pages for search engines can, when you least expect it, deliver a result.
Visits to Michael Jackson article on CLUAS
| Day |
Visits |
| Thursday June 25 |
110 |
| Friday June 26 |
1190 |
| Saturday June 27 |
274 |
| Sunday June 28 |
246 |
| Total |
1820 |
4 comment(s) so far...
Re: CLUAS.com traffic surges after Michael Jackson dies
I'm just as surprised that it was being read 8.6 times a day before that, to be honest.
By aidan on
Monday, June 29, 2009
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Re: CLUAS.com traffic surges after Michael Jackson dies
Devils Advocate: whats the difference CLUAS' web traffic assertions and the grossly manipulated ones expressed by Libertas during the Euro Elections campaign?
www.libertas.eu/en/news/9-news/361-libertaseu-the-most-visited-political-party-website-worldwide
By Joe Public on
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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Re: CLUAS.com traffic surges after Michael Jackson dies
The difference? Simple. Our figures are not manipulated. And in any case we are not trying to claim to be the biggest site in X, Y or Z worldwide. Although we still remain the number one website for Irish Jazz Music...
By eoghan on
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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Re: CLUAS.com traffic surges after Michael Jackson dies
CLUAS being compared to Libertas...I don't know whether to laugh or put my hat in the ring for the position of minister of arts, culture and fun please!!
By Idiot Kid on
Thursday, July 02, 2009
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