{"id":144,"date":"2013-03-27T19:19:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2013-03-27T19:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:20:42","slug":"traffic-skyrocketed-1378-and-i-did-absolutely-nothing-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/traffic-skyrocketed-1378-and-i-did-absolutely-nothing-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic skyrocketed 1378% and I did absolutely nothing about it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have a webpage about all the LPG stations in Slovenia. You may have heard of her bigger sister myLPG.eu<\/a> (the site for LPG stations in Europe), but you probably haven\u2019t heard of\u00a0plinske-crpalke.si<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This page has a steady flow of regulars who want to find out about the locations, prices and schedule about a certain station.<\/p>\n

There are some ups and downs in traffic, but they are more or less quite predictable (when the fuel prices change or a new station appears on the map and I send this info to my trustees through the mailing list).<\/p>\n

However, other than that there aren’t any odd spikes around. Therefore, you can imagine my surprise when one day I get an alert that the traffic is increasing a lot. I had that morning more visitors than I usually have through the whole day, and they just kept coming.<\/p>\n

Of course, the first thing was to try to find out where all this traffic comes from. One page stood out by far; it was some sort of a coupon page. When I checked it, one of the offers was cheap LPG conversion. A company wanted to become known in the market and threw a campaign. The description looked promising, the whole deal also, and for the social proof that LPG is a great thing, they added a link to my LPG page where I have a calculator for helping to calculate if LPG can be economical for you (mileage, consumption, price of conversion\u2026) or not.<\/p>\n

So all this new visitors were pouring in while I’ve watched them on Google Analytics.\u00a0 I didn’t know how to take advantage of this situation so I just refreshed the page and stared into the screen.<\/p>\n

\"plinske\"<\/p>\n

This phenomenon lasted for roughly two days and after that, it came back to normal.<\/p>\n

What have I learned from all this? Nothing much. Expect the unexpected I guess.<\/p>\n

I hope visitors found out they could drive more economically with autogas and if they did I hope there were enough coupons for everybody.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a webpage about all the LPG stations in Slovenia. You may have heard of her bigger sister myLPG.eu (the site for LPG stations in Europe), but you probably haven\u2019t heard of\u00a0plinske-crpalke.si. This page has a steady flow of regulars who want to find out about the locations, prices and schedule about a certain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matvoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}