On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> It looks like your getting about 2000 hits a day. Is your site listed in
> any web directories?
The average for this month was 3341 hits per day, averagely 267 visitors.
But it's all a function of how much activity I put out. A freshmeat
announcement usually generates a peak. For cish I've had quite a number
of hits when the link got mentioned in a thread with regards to cisco.
I've had one strong peak this month with 16172 hits and 1424 visitors.
This was a well-orchestrated attempt to gain visibility which I set out
after I released cish-0.9.0. Besides quite a number of hits from the
freshmeat site, a bit of PR sent through linuxtoday did great things for
the site as well. If you're only on freshmeat, people will not grow
instant awareness of your project, especially not if it's something that
doesn't quite fit in with the categories. Unique features that let your
project stand out from comparable projects are hard to put in a search
string as well. Awareness is the key, visibility is the keychain.
Also, open source projects can reinforce eachother by riding on
eachother's visibility. People tend to dick around with projects' parent
directory to find out more about who's behind the project. Any other
projects which are visible in some way through the page of another tend to
assist awareness as well.
It's sort of a sad thing that even open source products have to rely upon
marketing to gain acceptance, but it's the only really good tool people
have to filter the overflow of information that they get.
Cheers,
Pi
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