quick thinking gets traffic

As soon as i heard about Google Chrome being launched i knew it was going to be a success. I also knew it would be hot stuff in news and in Google itself with people wanting more information on it.

So i set about finding domains… chromebrowser.com was taken. Damn. A little investigating pulled up some interesting results. It’s registered to a Google employee in India and was registered in July of this year.

So then i started hunting for chrome related names…

• Chromedownload.com? - Nah doesn’t make for good site, i wanted a site where i could talk about any chrome stuff and the name would reflect that.
• ChromeReview? - well, all i can do is review chrome then or it’s features and that would get boring after a while…
• ChromeGuide.com? - yeah that sounds cool… it leaves me open to write about anything - i’ll take it

So i put up some content, got a theme, customized it a bit and chromeguide.com was alive and kicking. As soon as Chrome was released i downloaded it, and within about 5 minutes i’d made a mini-review of it’s main features. I then submitted the article to stumble and got instant traffic;

139 visits on day 1 (site had only been live for about 8 hours).

179 visits SO FAR on day 2 (with over 12 hours left to run in day 2).

So this is an excellent example of how acting quick pays dividend online. I’ve had success with this in the past both on other sites and this blog. Some of you may remember my eduardo post - that got me tonnes of traffic on this blog as i was quick off the mark - blogging bout the event straight after the match was over and getting indexed pretty much instantly.

I also blogged about henry moving to barcelona as soon as the news broke - that got me some traffic and my ‘staunton sacked‘ article also got me some added traffic as i said Steve Staunton had been sacked days before it was confirmed.

So what now for chromeguide.com - do i sell it while it’s hot? Well, as i’ve said yesterday, my attitude towards flipping sites has changed slightly…. i’m not so trigger happy on the ’sell’ button anymore. Ideally, i’d want sustained traffic over a longer period of time + a few subscribers wouldn’t go amiss.

That will mean of course not only can i not sell chromeguide.com, but i’ll have to keep adding content. Remarkably, despite having backlinks from numerous blogs plus digg and stumble etc… the site still isn’t indexed yet in google. I’ve noticed this of late in google…. it’s getting more and more difficult to index a site right away.

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