Slightly self motivated yes. That being said I've spent two years developing applications that could greatly help communities across the world and was having a hard time getting those ventures the proper attention. I theorized that something "less-impactful" would get more attention and in the long run drive attention to more important projects. I've been sharing my google analytics on the facebook page and with friends as a way for all of us to better understand the influence of different platforms. 32% of traffic has come from Facebook which is pretty much free to all startups. I then ran an ad campaign for five days which performed miserably. I will be carefully examining traffic sources and how to cheaply launch my app in the coming month. I don't expect a great deal from tiny tiny trophies I put up a wordpress site in a night and have been watching it in the past week.
Miley Cyrus released an album on a new domain mileycyrusandherdeadpetz.com I thought it was weird so I typed it in. After realizing I typed it incorrectly I realized a great deal of people would likely do the same. Posting the strange purphase on facebook got a lot of attention as well.
So the analytics I got pretty much show that it worked more as promotion than bait. I posted my purchase to facebook mocking the stupidity of the domain (there are a bunch of different ways to misspell that lengthy domain). The day I posted that status I saw 9.38% traffic but the analytics is treating the miley cyrus domain as a referral and isn't recognizing if that click came from facebook or direct. realized I need to add tags to recognize that now
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