{"id":608,"date":"2008-04-28T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2008-04-28T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T20:46:55","slug":"wow-traffic-skyrockets-due-to-incessant-blathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wow-traffic-skyrockets-due-to-incessant-blathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow &#8211; traffic skyrockets due to incessant blathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, evidently my post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2008\/04\/02\/2008-the-year-of-the-wii-rpg\/\">potential Wii RPGs of 2008<\/a> is number 1 on Google in searches for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=wii+rpgs\">wii rpgs<\/a>&#8220;. What does this mean? My traffic has been steadily increasing over the past month to the point where I&#8217;m about to break my previous attendance record. Pretty phenomenal for a silly little personal blog where I just rattle on nonsensically about Nintendo, web 2.0, social software, family, and literature. I&#8217;m starting to understand why some people try to &#8220;game&#8221; Google to get better pageranking for certain search terms. It&#8217;s pretty cool to see such a simple, innocuous post become such a traffic magnet for the site. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what I write in the future that could become the next content boom for me. Will it be Nintendo-related? Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, who are we kidding; of course it will!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-607\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/screenshot100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, evidently my post on the potential Wii RPGs of 2008 is number 1 on Google in searches for &#8220;wii rpgs&#8220;. What does this mean? My traffic has been steadily increasing over the past month to the point where I&#8217;m about to break my previous attendance record. Pretty phenomenal for a silly little personal blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[322,161,380],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-blogging","tag-nerdflood","tag-traffic","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}