How Blogging Made Me Famous in Weeks

Neon lights announding "wall of fame" above portraits of musicians in a bar. Looks very jazzy.

This blog has made me famous after less than 3 weeks of starting it!

It is of course somewhat a proof of concept.

I wanted to practice what I preach and know myself if it and how it works. Thus

I analyzed what happened and my stats for the first 3 weeks.

Here I share my findings with you. Some things worked out, others did not.


What were the most surprising effects of blogging success?

The blogging success by itself surprised me already.

Some things in particular were even more intriguing.

Most significantly many things happened that I did not expect.

What surprised me most?

In a positive way:

  • No spam! Not even trackback spam, my poor Akismet was unemployed
  • Several online publishing heavy weights and blogging authorities like Lorelle, Search Engine Watch, Marketing Pilgrim have either mentioned me, linked to my article at Google Blogoscoped or to SEO 2.0 directly
  • Big in China, Iran… My articles not only at Google Blogoscoped have been translated into numerous languages. I hope I do not end up being persecuted for supporting enemies of the US ;-)
  • I received approx. more than 60 links on a voluntary basis, this is 2 or 3 times as much as stem from my own “link building
  • my blog has been submitted to local and topic specific social news sites like Wykop (Polish social news) or DZone (Reddit for programming)
  • dozens shared my 10 steps guide to non-SEO success
  • I’ve been shared on social news sites like Reddit although I criticized them and their audiences hate SEO anyway
  • Nobody wrote hate comments about me
  • Nobody sued me
  • I wasn’t banned on Google Search (and even got almost 100 visitors through it)

In a negative way:

  • Social media audiences in Germany ignored me almost altogether as a punishment for not writing in German. Although I was a power user down there on local social media their users refused to support articles that I shared.
  • I needed 20 attempts not only with my own articles to make the front page of a niche community. It’s probably because everybody wondered “who is this arrogant guy in the first place”.
  • Nobody has sent me a mail or contacted me otherwise directly. I was just invited once on LinkedIn due to my activity (I should ad a “contact” page probably).
  • After 3 weeks my traffic reached 500 visits per day for the first time, that’s even less than my last blog in German which got 500 after less than 2 weeks.
  • Only 13 21 users bookmarked my blog publicly, 8 12 of them the blog homepage.
  • My great overview “The Best 7 Ways to Crash Internet Explorer” has been ignored although similar posts presenting just one way got hugely popular.
  • Nobody has subscribed to my feed publicly, indeed it was not even listed.
  • Nobody clicked on my ads! Ah, you’re right, I did not include any ads.

My goals for the next three weeks were:

  • Getting translated into Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian, Swahili, Punjabi, Japanese, Turkish and Tamil
  • Guest post at Matt Cutts‘ blog so that there is a reason to read it (the blog not the post)
  • Meeting one of my favorite celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Liv Tyler or Sigourney Weaver (it seems that I mentioned only female actors)
  • 5000 visitors daily
  • Getting asked to do SEO for Coca Cola, McDonald’s or Walmart and then of course refusing for ethical reasons

That way being famous feels good. You should try it too.

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