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Somebody placed a link to our HitTail Buzz radar at famous social bookmarking site StumbleUpon.com on September 25 and we suppose that it was at its Stumble Buzz page. As a result, we received 374 visits and 646 pageviews from eager Stumblers.  The burst was so intensive that we suspected even a Denial of Service (DOS) attack. During 1.5 hours, the radar was hit over 250 times. Then it is a bit faded away:  

When the dust settled, we had a record number of daily pageviews since we started using Google Analytics on November24, 2006 - 1163 and the largest number of visits since February 26, 2007 – 706. We couldn’t locate who placed the link but we know that Mike Levin – a guy behind HitTail – has link to our radar at his StumbleUpon page. 

The StumbleUpon burst proved a huge power of social networking sites in escalating online traffic. Utilization of this power and promoting websites through the social networking sites was dubbed as “SEO 2.0”. We were so amazed by this burst that l decided to study this new phenomena by launching our own SEO 2.0 radar. 

As we promised, we kept working on this tool and delivered new exciting features such as more advanced selection criteria, ability to add feeds to existing Radars, Firefox support, dynamically generated Widgets and new Feed Types - Forums, Images, Amazon and Bids.

For detailed description of Generate Widget functionality see our previous post.

The new version of Radar Wizard  makes Newsmastering much easier and you can test drive this tool. If you need any help, you can use our online Help (the link is located at the top right corner) or you can contact us at: support@radarfarms.com.

RadarFarms added Tag Clouds to its Widgets and successfully tested them at our another site ITDynamo.com. The Tag Clouds were implemented for JobExposer, Soft Skills for Techies, Resume Mastering and Interview Prep for Techies Radar Widgets.

The Radar Widgets, implemented in July 2007 through our Radar Wizard self-service, are for free, however, the Tag Cloud add-in is for a small one-time fee and will be produced upon you request. If you are interested in producing and hosting the widgets, please contact us at: mailto:info@radarfarms.com.

Tag Cloud is a weighted list of content tags/keywords for a specific radar. They bring a lot of value to the widgets by boosting Search Engine Ranking for a site hosting the widget,  adding search capabilities and giving a cool Web 2.0-like look to the host site. 

Some of us here at RadarFarms are avid tennis fans and amateur players and, all of us being male, admire female beauty. Because of this combination, a couple of weeks ago, we couldn’t have helped but to create the “Tennis Beauties” radar; aggregating videos of the dozen hottest women on the WTA tour. Nothing wrong with this, we presume.

As many of you know, the US Open Tennis Tournament that is going on at Flushing Meadows in New York gave a bit of a boost to our new radar. However, then something unexpected happened. We witnessed on Wednesday September 5 a giant match between the cute, albeit unordinary looking, Serbian Jelena Jankovic and the still active tennis legend Venus Williams. While playing quite well and very hard; Jelena managed to smile, giggle, and tease Jerry Seinfeld (who was in attendance that night) and slowly, but surely, conquered the hearts of the audience in Flushing Meadows and those watching from home. The audience was witness to a spectular display of acrobatics from Jelena who, while trying to save some shots, managed to pull some splits from her bag of tricks (probably from sheer desperation more than anything else, really).

Presumably, it was a tipping point and as soon as the match was completed the male tennis fans (and maybe some females too), overwhelmed so much by the tennis diva, started Googling - trying to peek again on Jelena’s splits.  Apparently, since 5:10am PST on September 6 our humble radar happened to be on the first page of search results returned by Google for: “Jelena splits”, “Jelena Jankovic does splits” and similar search keywords.  

As a result, since then and until this morning,  we’ve experienced 150 visits via 74 keywords for “Jankovic”, boosting our traffic to its highest level since mid-February 2007.

It’s too bad that this splitomania faded away and/or Google somehow revised its ranking for this hot subject (as of this morning, Google dropped us from the top 50 search results for Jelena’s heroics).  But life goes on ..