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15 Minutes of Fame? Johnny On The Spot, perhaps? Either way, I’ll take it. Last week, I posted a video of the Mississippi Braves Manager Meltdown. I posted the video Tuesday. By Wednesday, I was #1 for the search “Mississippi Braves Manager” (sans quotation marks) or some variation of that search in Google Trends, Google Blogsearch and Google Web Search. As of Monday evening, I am #2, #1, and #9, respectively.
For June 6th, that traffic translated into 27.94%, or 725, of my visits. Of course, traffic slowly tapered off as people stopped searching for it. Normally, I get about 400-600 visits per day. Not super awesome. But, my other huge traffic booster (totally unrelated) was for the Reppin My Block Spurs Remix, which is still #1 on Google, by the way. 
In The News…
Friday morning on my way down to the beach for a fishing trip, my mom called to inform me that Derrich.com was mentioned in the paper. When I returned on Sunday evening, I saw that David King, a columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, had included Derrich.com in a list of blogs that mentioned the manager meltdown. According to King, it turns out that the maniac manager is from San Antonio…a graduate of Madison High School.
You can read the online version here. Unfortunately, none of the domains referred to on the newspaper’s website are actual links…or this could have resulted in even more traffic. The mention resulted in a small hiccup in Friday traffic. Hard to tell exactly how much of that was related to the article with no tracking. Like I said before…I’ll take it. Thanks for the mention, David. I’ll try to keep the one-liners coming.
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June 12th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Derrich, congrats on the rankings and for gaining some publicity in the newspaper! Even if it didn’t result in much of a traffic boost, it is always cool to see your name (or website) in print.
Welcome to the Big Show! Don’t forget us little people!
June 12th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I love when a site gets picked up, even getting traffic for a few days is nice.
June 12th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
So you’re kind of a big deal.
Most of us knew that already. Good luck with your Spurs in the Finals. The Cavs had to beat the darn Pistons. It’s such a shame to have both Detroit hockey and basketball teams go down in the conference finals
Anyway back to blogging, you’ll need to know how many readers who recently found your blog stick around.
-MP
June 13th, 2007 at 9:03 am
LOL! I love that line. In my MySpace (which I check like every 3 weeks), the header says “I’m kind of a big deal”.
You know…I’ve picked up some Spurs fans along the way with my Reppin My Block Remix post. I’ve got quite a few fan blogs pointing my way, which is nice.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:52 am
hey, that’s awesome! congrats dude! you think you’re gonna do anymore contests? the bloggers contest was just way too fun… contests are always good for buzz and links
i’m ok with it…
btw, we went to the range today and i’m facing the fact that i really suck at golf. but i’m determined. and it seems that EVERYONE around me plays golf! i found out over the weekend that two more of my friends play. it’s like one of those dirty little secrets that no ones tells each other, but it’s not really dirty at all, just slightly nerdy
June 13th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Thanks, everyone! It was definitely a great feeling.
@Danielle: Yeah…definitely don’t give up now. You’ll get better. And, yes, everyone plays golf. Everyone. So, dirty.
June 13th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Congrats on getting noticed buddy!
June 13th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Nice… I wish i got the SAExNews up in this worthless DFW metroplex… that coach was for sure insane, but got his publicity… Thanks for adding ‘for the love of sports’ to your blogroll, i really appreciate it… love your blog… and finally GO SPURS GO!!! Four for Fin.
aaron
June 19th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Haha! Indeed. Well, I’m happy to add you. I enjoy the blog. Now, I’m ready for Fantasy Football.
@ BB: Thanks!
June 18th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
[...] name (even if he does spell it wrong). Derrich had an interesting start to the week as he added another notch in his belt when he made it into the newspaper. The week continued to get better as the San Antonio Spurs came [...]
June 19th, 2007 at 6:47 am
I knew you would make it all along!
June 19th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Next stop: Kiplingers!