The best way to get a few hundred thousand hits...Get your site in the WashingtonPost

[IAmAllanShore]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/29/AR2005122901412_pf.html

(The site was invadecanada.us , got $300 in 2 days from CafePress sales, which was a huge bump from CafePress for me).

-Allan :gl:

 

[Gene]

Ha! Very cool. Got my wheels turning

 

[-JDT-]

Very nice idea, congrats

 

[yandig]

Wow - that's some nice exposure for you there, Allan!

 

[01wojtowicz]

wow! that was an interesting read!

 

[commes]

congrats, and by the way thanks for the nice read lol, im canadian so that all kind of surprised me

 

[jeter4982]

Congrats Allan! Did they end up contacting you at all for the article, or did they just find your site and reference it?

Tom

 

[RJ]

Congrats on the publicity to your site, Allan. Any way you can get the declassified report to publish on your website?

 

[smub]

congrats on the publicity allan. Good luck in future

 

[eCommando]

Nice job.

It says on the upper right "Advertisement".

How much did you have to pay?

 

[jstep]

I think thats just for the little box up there

 

[Peter]

eCommando he didnt that is just denoting that the banner under that is an advertisement.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Nice job.

It says on the upper right "Advertisement".

How much did you have to pay?

As others have indicated, I didn't pay anything

Any way you can get the declassified report to publish on your website?

Great idea! I'll have to look into that now...

Did they end up contacting you at all for the article, or did they just find your site and reference it?

I got an email from the author (I assume; It was a WP email addy, although it was a generic address) letting me know about it, and giving me an opportunity to "comment". I didn't even check my email until I noticed a lot more Amazon clicks from a tracking ID I hadn't used in a while and traced the source.

congrats, and by the way thanks for the nice read lol, im canadian so that all kind of surprised me

I don't hate Canada, BTW, just my wife's brother's fiance's attitude when it comes to Canadia

-Allan :gl:

 

[jstep]

How'd the ads do?

They are placed rather unobtrusively, might have benefited if by the top?

Or still counts for impressions?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

How'd the ads do?

They are placed rather unobtrusively, might have benefited if by the top?

Or still counts for impressions?

The Adsense wasn't spectacular (A single digit fraction of the Amazon+CP), but the Amazon and CafePress were spot-on winners as far as I'm concerned The only time InvadeCanada.us had a better week was when CollegeHumor and ebaum linked to it from their main page (That was a GREAT week ).

-Allan :gl:

 

[jstep]

wow, a unique idea really has gone a long ways for you

Congratulations

 

[dgridley]

That has always been my #1 "why didn't I think of that and reg it first" domain, Allan! Congrats on the added exposure.. Been Slashdotted yet?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

That has always been my #1 "why didn't I think of that and reg it first" domain, Allan! Congrats on the added exposure.. Been Slashdotted yet?

Heh heh
Just go out drinking with Canadians more often; drunk Canadians are like my "muses"
No slashdot for invadecanada.
Actually, "stumbleupon" if you're familiar with the toolbar has been another steady source of links for a handful of my "humor-type" sites.
-Allan :gl:

 

[dgridley]

I just seeded your site on Newsvine as well