I have taken that fact over the last couple of days and have playfully experimented with the blog traffic that could be generated by helping feed the rumors about the search for a new coach. I have constantly over the past week or so fed this site with the names of everything and everyone that could be, should be or would want to be hired or involved in the search.
This has fed the fact that this site is fairly well indexed with Google and other search engines and as anyone fed these names in they would ultimately pull up this site in some form or fashion. As I would feed names like Gus Malzahn, Tommy Tuberville, Butch Davis, Tommy Bowden, Houston Nutt, John White, Jim Grobe, Mitch Wilson and many others the search engines would make a move... Especially if a rumor was leaked from credible sources about any of those.
Here is what happened:
Around the 1st of November this site was averaging about 12-15 hits per day.
At that time I began to work the rumor mill a little and the hits about the 10th of November went to about 18-22 hits per day.
Around December 1, I started hitting the rumors strong. Here is the hit statistics for the first 5 days of December:
1st --- 22, 2nd ---47, 3rd---81, 4th ---92, 5th-----331.
As of this writing it is about 7:00pm and I have had 129 hits today.
The 331 came as everyone thought Arkansas had a coach hired and I put his name along with all of the others out their very quickly and the hits started coming.
By the way did yall hear that Mike Leach is not coming and that Gus Malzahn and Reggie Herring are the candidates now.
My story for now
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