I began the promotion on July 28, 2006 and as you can see by the traffic report below the results were instantaneous. As of writing this page on Aug. 1, 2006 I have brought in over 45,000 new visitors and Awstats is reporting more than 7,600 of those visitors have book-marked my site in their favorites.

Viral promotion can be unpredictable so I won’t expect the same results each time. The results from this promotion would be considered above average.

Update Aug. 4, 2006 – So far the site has received an additional 11,600 visits to bring the grand total for the eight days to 56,600 with an additional 1,700 book-marks added.

Update Aug. 10, 2006 – So far the site has received an additional 6,700 visits to bring the grand total for the twelve days to 63,300 with an additional 900 book-marks added.

Update Aug. 28, 2006 – It has now been one month since my initial traffic surge from getting to number one on digg.com. The post has received a place on the first page of ‘top videos of the year’ so I am hoping for more residual traffic. Although traffic has gone down quite a bit it is still averaging around 5x-10x higher per day than before my promotion.

Update Sept. 28, 2006 – The site traffic has pretty much stabilized at 250-300 uniques a day and has achieved a ton of backlinks in MSN and Yahoo search because of other blogs and sites linking via the Digg.com post. Adsense revenue has been minimal because most of these visitors don’t click ads. All-in-all it has been a great run and I just sold this site.