For those of you who are new to the Deep Friar, I’m just an amateur blogger.
I write for fun and I’ve managed to generate a small, but loyal following. But certainly not anything large enough to quit my day job over and start blogging full-time.
And I claim to know NOTHING WHATSOEVER about customer satisfaction, free-lance writing, e-commerce or sales and marketing.
Yet suddenly, I received 2400 hits in just under two days.
At first I thought it was a glitch on the Stats software, but no, it was true. In fact, I even made the WordPress “Top Posts of the Day” and “Growing Blogs” lists.
Holy crap. What happened?
Bob Dylan, that’s what happened.
I wrote a silly post about Bob Dylan, and it got picked up by another website: http://expectingrain.com.
The site provided a link to my blog, and this was responsible for generating most of my traffic.
Seems Bob is quite the popular conversation topic.
So I’m enjoying my 15 minutes of fame while it lasts. (But already, I can see my traffic spiking back down to more modest levels.)
My advice to you bloggers out there: if you want to increase your traffic, then write something about Bob Dylan.
But be warned: Bob Dylan has many disciples out there…
…and not all of them take kindly if you dare to mock their Prophet. 
