While I was at the Alexa page today, I noticed that John Cow has done something very clever, he made a picture parody of a Facebook page called “pensionbook” and it has received a massive amount of traffic over the past month. Check out his stats for the site that hosts the image (johncow.us)

Because of this traffic, his site got listed on the “movers and shakers” part of Alexa. Moving from a rank of 511,000 to 20,000 since the beginning of December. The root of Johncow.us has an image showing a template for sale image. Click through and you get the option of buying a basic version with links to johncow intact or pay a premium to have it without the links.

A pretty awesome pre-planned traffic attack! This is a really good example of monetizing a social bait page, he must have sold quite a few templates!

Unfortunately there are already people who are offering to provide the template for free (but not for long!)

My own Alexa rank has dropped below the 100K barrier now, sweet! For the UK it is below 8000, haha! and with over 50,000 unique visitors in through the doors before Christmas, all my traffic targets have been achieved. By March next year, I’d like to have over 100,000 more visitors and have my Alexa rank down to less than 50k.

I have a pretty good idea how I’m going to proceed, I have some wicked plans for CommentLuv, contests, tutorials and ebooks that will be fun to try. Roll on 2008!

I hope to see all my good blogging buddies rocking on through the new year, see you then!

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