Comments on: I owe Stephen Fry a pint…

By: Phil Hancox

Phil Hancox — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:26:28 +0000

I like Dan Barker!
Congrats again fella, and if we can arrange a meet up with yourself, Andy and Sir Fry himself, I reckon it’d be Quite Interesting…

By: Mark Boyd

Mark Boyd — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:43:17 +0000

good shout, ill attempt to get somethign up there.

any ideas on what the landing page should be about tho?

By: BLOGERCISE

BLOGERCISE — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:25:24 +0000

Nice one, my intial thought was “doesn’t seem much” but actually if someone handed you £50 you wouldn’t turn it down. But also I admire your quick thinking – I would never have thought to do that! Well played.

And as mentioned above, you can leave a landing page up there for the rest of the year and maybe that £50 will become £100 or more…

By: dan barker

dan barker — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:37:14 +0000

just thinking – presumably it’s picked up backlinks elsewhere too? might be worth putting an actual quick landing page together on it if so!

By: Mark Boyd

Mark Boyd — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:26:01 +0000

philhancox tweeted me to tell me exactly the same thing!

dont worry ill sort phil and bfg out with a few pints at a gathering somewhere down the line

By: dan barker

dan barker — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:24:29 +0000

sounds like you actually owe PhilHancox a pint!

By: Mark Boyd

Mark Boyd — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:48:11 +0000

Hi Jason,

2007 uniques for today.
Got about that in the two hours after he posted. Obviously the more new tweets he makes, the slower the traffic will get.

Mark

By: Jason Dale

Jason Dale — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:15:51 +0000

So what kind of traffic levels are you getting now? Be interesting to see just how much traffic a “tweet” by a celeb can boost a site – and whether it’s kinda instant or has a long trickle of traffic.

By: Mark Boyd

Mark Boyd — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:06:26 +0000

Hi Jason,

The main reason was I assumed that Stephen Fry would notice his mistake within a few minutes and change it!

Mark

By: Jason Dale

Jason Dale — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:04:46 +0000

Just shows opportunities can pop up any time – nice one!

Any reason why you went for redirect vs landing page? E.g. data collection, link to another site, give a few offers?