https://crystal.castle.cc/tag/traffic/ Recent content in Traffic on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:29:33 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2010/08/20/freshly-pressed-one-night-stand-or-the-gift-that-keeps-giving/ Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:29:33 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2010/08/20/freshly-pressed-one-night-stand-or-the-gift-that-keeps-giving/ <p><a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/freshly-pressed.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-573" title="Freshly Pressed" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/freshly-pressed.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="389" /></a></p> <p>Two Fridays ago around 5 pm (11 am EST), I noticed a slew of comments on my latest blog post on <a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/2010/08/06/hiking-the-mannlichen-summit/">hiking the Männlichen summit</a>. Not that I haven&#8217;t been getting occasional comments all along, but the majority are from people I know personally, and the spike in external commentators was unusual. I scratched my head over what could be inspiring the bump in traffic, then scrutinized my blog stats to find that <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a> was sending referrals my way faster than a time-strapped doctor. Sure enough, when I checked the WordPress landing page, there I was, featured in the top-right corner under &#8220;Freshly Pressed&#8221; blogs.</p>