Yahoo Link Sends Record-Breaking Traffic to New York Times Site
And you thought the “Digg Effect” was bad. Behold the Yahoo link effect. A link featured at the top of Yahoo’s front page sent more than 9 million page views to an article published on The New York Times’ website during a period of just two hours last week, breaking records for web traffic at the paper. Unfortunately, the massive spike in traffic failed to produce much advertising revenue.
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June 30th, 2009 at 11:00 am
[...] the Mr … something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Digg Yahoo Link Sends Record-Breaking Traffic to New York Times Site – se-news.excession.org.uk 06/30/2009 And you thought the “Digg Effect†was bad. Behold the [...]