Slight spike in traffic for "Dresden PGN"
I noticed a jump in my traffic for my chess blog yesterday. That was about 350 visits which is the highest in 30 days. The reason was simple. People were searching for the record of the games played in the current Chess Olympiad held in Dresden Germany. From what I read, the official website dresden2008.com took a 1 million hit in the first day and double that on the second day! Not surprising with such a big event there are many “holes” like broken links in the PGN downloads. All I did was download the PGN files and hosted it on my blog. I blogged about it and search engines like Google immediately indexed them. I now rank No. 1 on Google for “Dresden PGN” or any similiar combination of words like “Download Dresden PGN”, “Dresden Olympiad game download” etc I can see from my sitemeter referrals that many new visitors were searching for the PGN games. Thanks to Google they found the files to download easily from my blog. I did not plan to get this traffic increase when I offered the PGN for downloads but the additional exposure to my relatively new blog is most welcomed 
Popularity: 11% [?]
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