Comments on: How Much Traffic Does TechCrunch Send You?

By: soegemaskineoptimering

soegemaskineoptimering — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:36:07 +0000

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By: How to get the most out of traffic spikes on your website or blog

How to get the most out of traffic spikes on your website or blog — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:21:01 +0000

[...] media coverage including appearing on the Dragons’ Den UK for Lookandtaste, getting covered in Techcrunch here, making the homepage of Digg, getting stumbled plenty of times and appearing in the LA Times and [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:58:11 +0000

Great Article, Niall. So direct traffic is bad. But how about indirect traffic? Doesn’t every tech journalist in the world take inspiration from techcrunch? Did you get significant exposure on other websites / blogs / magazines / newspapers / radio / tv following your techcrunch article?

By: Tim Bull

Tim Bull — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:02:14 +0000

Very interesting read, thanks. It’s good to put it into perspective, one blog isn’t going to make or break your traffic, but it’s not a bad thing to be featured at all.

Personally I’d grab any decent quote and put it on the front page, it just adds a little bit of credibility.

Thanks for the analysis.

PS – I found this post through AllTop !

By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:10:39 +0000

The value of TC is not purely in the numbers but in the quality of those numbers. TC commands a good mindshare of the early-adopters. Hence, the number of clicks may be small – but may actually turn out to be of very high quality. Now, how do you judge that??? Clicks converting into sign-ups, maybe!

By: Rolando Peralta

Rolando Peralta — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:43:02 +0000

wow! this article is really impressive! The topic is one of the most interesting and had became a sort of “leyend”, thanks a lot for bring clarity to our work!
TechCrunch is great, and I think we should keep attention to it. I really like it.

By: Michael Jung

Michael Jung — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:15:25 +0000

Re: Alan and Niall. “”It is a numbers game, quality.

Yes it is, I acknowledge that. But can’t they design their page for that ’strategy’? It isn’t Arrington’s blog anymore, it is a full fledged Tech News (Network). And the design and usability improvements over the time have only been minor. And I don’t perceive it as pleasant anymore to read on TechCrunch. Period.

By: Mihai @ Freshome.com

Mihai @ Freshome.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:45:15 +0000

I didn’t expect at something like this with their RSS readers and Alexa rank to be honest.

By: John Samuel

John Samuel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:15:25 +0000

Even I found your website on Techcrunch. You have a collection of interesting articles. Looking forward to more of your updates

By: Gery

Gery — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:25:31 +0000

Sometimes it is just impossible to get to Techcrunch, but time will tell…:)

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:24:39 +0000

Niall,

Did you have to jump through any hoops to get featured? Or did they just find you and like the idea?

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:39:30 +0000

I think this view of TC is very valid today, and not so valid to the past, and Alan, you hit the nail on the head for the reason why… The number of news stories. As a consumer of news, I couldn’t be happier. I read it in the morning, check my RSS at lunch and have to catch up on 5-8 stories, and then when I’m home from work it seems like there are 10 more. Couldn’t be better. Unfortunately as an entrepreneur I have realized that means one thing… less screen time on a blog that has changes the face of technology news. Classic double edged sword.

By: Alan O'Rourke

Alan O'Rourke — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:38:12 +0000

Oh and congrats on the mention

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:16:54 +0000

Yeah I read it a few times every day as well Alan, I find it kind of addictive even if I don’t actually go in there and visits the sites themselves that much. I reckon they are building up for a sale by aggresively growing the numbers, authors, posts etc, it’s a numbers game for them

By: Alan O'Rourke

Alan O'Rourke — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:44:09 +0000

This was our experience as well.
It’s not like the old days when they had a few quality posts in a day. People were able to read them all and you were on the home page for 1-2 days at least. Now they have so many posts that you might be off the home page after an hour or two and you cannot read them all. I have heard from a few others that while the numbers are smaller it did bring them some really good quality leads and contacts.
I still read and love the site though.