The Tyler Effect
I recently had the honor of being featured on Tyler Cruz’s blog after a recent encounter we had while I was at work. If you read my blog regularly, then you may have seen the post explaining my data loss from a mishap at the datacenter that caused me to lose a lot of my recent work. This included most of the new content that I had applied as well.
I have been a regular reader of Tyler’s for about 4 years now. His blog is one of the few blogs that I actually read. I don’t like to read the typical large pro-blogger blogs. They were just a bit beyond the scope of what I was trying to do at the time.
I had made a few jokes over the last 9 months working at Hostgator that I was going to see Tyler come into chat one day. But I didn’t really imagine it would happen, although Tyler is a Hostgator client, Hostgator serves well over 2.5 million domains. That’s an amazing figure to me. We have several hundred employees that work in the Houston Hostgator office. And for me to actually have gotten him in chat seems like such a small chance. But to make it even more ironic, and Tyler actually has no clue about this unless he ends up reading this; that it was actually my birthday!
I have a tendency to forget my birthday and dismiss it as just another day. I do what I do at Hostgator because I love it. So it doesn’t seem unusual to me to work on my birthday, but people seem to find it strange. I find it unusual that he did happen to show up on my birthday of all days however.
I won’t bother going into all of the details of the post since Tyler has already covered most of the details in It’s a Small World After All… Especially Online if you would care to read the chat he even included that as well!
During our conversation I had mentioned that I was his friend and follower which since we had never spoken and I mainly lurked on his blog the last 4 years he had absolutely no idea who I was. I spend way too much time on social networks applications and really didn’t think about how that sounded. I was thinking Viddler and Twitter. I don’t even know if I have him on Twitter. But I receive an email every time he uploads a video to Viddler.
This post was a blessing to say the least. If we crunch some numbers I had lost a total of 2/3′s of my traffic due to this issue. I’m still recovering and setting up everything so I have been pretty hard to get ahold of due to having to rebuild most of my network.
The Tyler Effect
This boost of traffic came just in time and was the single greatest producing linkback on any of the sites in RocketScience Network.
Not only has this helped me recover quite a bit on my statistics. It has seemingly brought a surge of traffic to my blog. The unfortunate part about it was, since I had recently restored from a backup and was making changes, some old posts from when I was learning to auto-blog were reposted by mistake. So all of the most valuable content was not available on the front page. But such is life and it did ensure that I was going to fix the issues with the blog quickly.
If you would like to experience the Tyler Effect for yourself you can get a paid review from him for $250. You can select a review or a paid plug for the same price and see for yourself. I would encourage you to read over his specifications and read over his blog.
I have also recently been featured by Sarah Terry on E-how.com for one of my (ironically) popular posts on cricket farming. Which has been bringing in a trickle of visitors that is also improving my currently deflated stats. I was afraid to look at them after I lost my data. I just sat down and worked until I was able to get the network back at a working level.
Although the data loss has lost many hours of my work, it has actually forced me to take things to the next level. Things are very well organized and documented so that I can set goals and exceed them. I have found that more than ever, organization is the key to accomplishing many things in a small amount of time. I really believe that without the current system that I have developed due to this outage I would have needed at least 5 more of me to do this in the same amount of time. It’s amazing how productive you can be when you can focus on your goals.
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Yeah, you don't gotta tell me about all the improvements that need to be made. Working on them now. Damn the lost data to hell working on restoring the network to better than it was previously. Please excuse the mess. What Happened?! -
