Interesting …. Vitalsecurity.org has a post about being Slashboinged! when it wroe a story about Teenagers used to push Zango on Myspace? and got to be on the first page of DIGG.

But DIGG traffic does not last long - what’s more enduring is traffic generated from Boing Boing, which takes a little longer but once it happens - has a domino effect as many people, including me, like to take Boing Boing posts and repost most of it on my own blog - and that can make your site very, very popular and rank well, as you’ll have a lot of back links from all the copies of the blog post posted on other blogs.

Here’s the major details from a Web Analytics standpoint:

 

Last week, I wrote a story that in 24 hours hit the frontpages of both Digg and Slashdot, with Blog related firepower provided by the mighty Boingboing.net (ranked number 1 in Technorati, when not knocked off the top by Spamblogs).

Teenagers used to push Zango on Myspace?

submitted by aquafinality 7 days ago (via http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2…)

A ring of "Myspace profile edit" sites encourage Myspace users to add their "free videos" to their profiles. What they *don’t* mention, is that these videos pop open a box that tries to install Zango Adware when someone visits a profile running these movies. Getting what is likely teenagers to unknowingly distribute this stuff is a new low.

First the Digg traffic arrived which produced 1000 visitors an hour from the normal 250 an hour the site usually gets (not bad though - 250 an hour?)

Day 1: Digg.com frontpage

As you can see, the story hits the Digg.com frontpage and I’m racking up over 1000 uniques per hour for a while there. So far, so good (click all images to enlarge).

With the exception of the 5% for Techmeme and the 31% for "others", the remaining 64% of traffic came from Digg.

I’d have been happy with that on its own. However, within 24 hours of the site hitting the Digg frontpage…

On day 2 - The Boing Boing effect happens because a lot of people (including me with Amy Crehore’s work, will take the Boing Boing article and post it on my blog - and I’m just one of thousands that do that.

This goes on and on Day 4 - the Boing Boing effect kicks in fully:

Day 4: BoingBoing and Shoutwire Tidalwave

….and on it goes.

Though the amount of pageviews / uniques has dropped off, people seem to enjoy reposting this one which means a continued spread across the Interweb.

Shoutwire suddenly goes nuts and gives me 23% of my total traffic for the day. Torrentspy (reproducing the Shoutwire content) leaps up to 10%, Techdirt crashes the party with 5% and the other 46% is mostly Boingboing reposts.

Here is a summary of the unique hits from the 10th of July to the 13th of July:

Day 1: 16172 uniques
Day 2: 22020 uniques
Day 3: 8388 uniques
Day 4: 10220 uniques

Now look at this:

56,800 uniques over the 4 days, and 78,491 uniques over the last six.

Over the four days, the traffic divided up like this:

47% - Boingboing, Boingboing reposts, news sites and "regular" traffic
30% - Slashdot
15% - Digg
5% - Shoutwire
3% - Google

Pretty interesting stuff.    Getting written up in Boing Boing can be the best thing of all of this because it’s the most enduring.